Your Responsibilities
For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced Director Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our B2B teams (15+ engineers).
This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the engineering organization and system landscape, the efficient and compliant development process.
At Raisin, we implemented a Domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product).
The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally multiple cross-functional engineering teams (tech teams).
This embraces the five areas below:
- Delivery Quality and Speed
- Long-term Domain Ownership
- Team and Culture
- Tech Strategy and Guidance
- Process and Compliance
- Accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their Business-owners in time, scope, and budget
- Responsible for the performance of their teams
- Resolving impediments for their teams
- Nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability
- Ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
- Leading both complex technical and important business projects
- Leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives
- Drives long-term value creation for their domain
- Fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe
- Builds resilient domain expertise in their teams
- Deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams
- Collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders
- Shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needs
- Collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategy
- Actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions
- Always considering the strategic benefits and price of
- Keeping an existing technical solution
- Introducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process)
- Fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams
- Offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well
- Encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility
- Attracting, hiring, and retaining top technical talent for Raisin from around the world
- Proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members
- Ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
- Organizing workshops/hackathons
- Representing the company in external tech events in order to advance Raisin’s tech brand recognition
- Shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices
- Nurturing and protecting our culture of trust
- Initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)
- Recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams
- Drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, Regulation and data privacy
- Contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation
- Develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization
- Develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams
- Responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams (e.g team performance metrics, Delivery updates)
- Actively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt
- You hold a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields or have equivalent practical experience
- Leadership experience 5y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and people, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams
- Strong business mindset
- You are pragmatic and can handle the balance between both taking and delegating the lead in challenging situations
- You bring both strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skills
- You motivate and inspire by outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- You possess solid developer background and distinct hands-on mentality
- You are experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreements
- You are familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing and evolving these system constraints
- You are fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plus
At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which, connects more than 40 different nationalities.
You'll find us in our modern and open office in the trendy Kreuzberg district with a view of the Spree River, ideally connected to public transportation and surrounded by a variety of restaurants and shopping opportunities.
As part of our team, you will benefit from:
- Personal training budget of 1,700 € and four full training days per year
- Free choice of hardware
- Hungry all the time? Snacks, daily fresh fruit as well as drinks provided at the office
- Flexible working hours, home office and 28 vacation days
- Enjoy more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with more than €20 per month.
- A company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge), which we support with 20%
- Enjoy yearly company retreats to exciting European cities and other team events, such as Lunch & Learn, Tech Lunch, Female Empowerment Forum, CEO Talks as well as our yearly Summer- and Winter Party
- Do you miss being in the office? The corporate ticket gets you there, which we subsidize with €25 per month (BVG Firmenticket for Berlin and HVV ProfiTicket for HH)
- You are moving from another country or city to join us? We will support your relocation\_\_
