Head of Engineering (f/m/d)

At Moss, we give finance professionals the power to automate their day-to-day and make forward-thinking decisions. Our culture is what makes that possible: we play to win, we obsess over quality, and we win as One Moss, and it works. Moss closed a €35 million Series C in August 2026, crossing a €1 billion valuation, and became one of Europe's fintech unicorns. Join us for what's next. We're hiring a Head of Engineering to lead engineering for one of our product tribes. You'll manage 15 to 20 engineers directly, with tech leads in each squad owning technical direction but no management layer between you and the team. You report to the CTO and sit in a tribe leadership trio with the Product Tribe Lead and Design Lead. Which tribe you'd lead is something we'll work out with you during the process. This is a people leadership role with a hard technical requirement. The engineers report to you, so hiring, development, performance and pace are yours. At the same time you have to hold your own on system architecture: challenge estimates from your engineers, spar with the Product Tribe Lead on solutions, and know when a design is wrong before it ships. This role needs both.

• Feasibility and delivery for the tribe. You're accountable for tribe-wide delivery outcomes and velocity: the right problems, solved at the right quality, as fast as possible.
• The people. 15 to 20 direct reports. Hiring, onboarding, expectations, feedback, development, compensation and promotion recommendations, and the tough calls that keep talent density high. Tech Leads feed you performance signals; the decisions and the conversations are yours.
• Technical judgement across squads. Broad understanding of the tribe's systems and how they fit into the wider Moss architecture. You challenge estimates and technical proposals from your engineers; you don't produce the estimates yourself.
• A seat in the tribe trio. Roadmap and planning input through a feasibility lens. You argue solutions and trade-offs with the Product Tribe Lead as a technical peer, and push back on scope and timelines when the engineering picture says so.
• Operating rhythm. How the tribe plans, estimates, tracks and reports on delivery, with proactive, timely transparency to the tribe and to leadership, the good and the bad.
• Capacity. Putting your best people on the most impactful work, moving engineers between squads (and, where it serves Moss, between tribes) while still letting people build real domain depth.
• Alignment across tribes. Tribe leads aren't isolated trios. You align proactively with your peer Heads of Engineering and with platform and architecture owners, and you resolve shared-architecture questions through alignment, not around it.

• 4 to 6+ years in engineering management, with a track record of managing engineers directly at a meaningful span. You've run hiring, performance management and difficult conversations yourself, not through a layer of managers.
• A senior engineering career before that. You've operated at senior or staff level as an engineer and your judgement on system design is current, not historical.
• Strong systems design. You can read an architecture, spot where it will break, and argue an alternative with the people who built it. You can tell a 2-week estimate from a 6-week one and explain why.
• Comfort as a technical peer to product leadership. You've shaped roadmaps and scope through feasibility arguments, and you've won and lost those arguments gracefully.
• Structure at scale without a middle layer. You build the practices that make 15 to 20 direct reports work: clear expectations, regular feedback, visible delivery.
• Fast in unfamiliar domains. You can reason about a new technical domain quickly and contribute before you have deep prior expertise in it.
• Experience from an environment with mature engineering practices: code review, testing, incident handling, planning and estimation that actually work. You know what good looks like and can build it where it's missing.
• Background at an AI product company or in ERP / financial systems. Both are directly relevant to what we build.
• Experience leading in a flat or tribe/squad-style organisation.
• Experience with a Tech Lead / Engineering Manager split, as either side of it.

• Top-of-market compensation package, including equity.
• Our vibrant offices are at the heart of our culture, where in-person time fuels collaboration and connection over weekly breakfasts and Friday demos.
• 20 days "work from abroad"
• 600EUR/GBP Learning & Development Budget
• other local benefits