Head of Engineering

Who we are

At OpenUp were on a mission to make mental well-being accessible to everyone anytime anywhere. We support companies their employees and their families with a wide range of mental well-being services all from one platform.

Through OpenUp people gain access to well-being check-ins self-guided online courses articles videos interactive group sessions mindfulness sessions and a team of certified psychologists and lifestyle experts. We believe mental and physical well-being go hand in hand and that lifestyle habits like nutrition exercise sleep and stress management are essential for a balanced life. By offering expert support across all these areas we take a holistic approach to health.

Were proud to be ranked #3 on LinkedIns Top Startups 2024 list and were growing fast. With over 1500 (international) client organisations and 300000 supported employees (including companies like Rituals Deloitte Decathlon KPMG and McDonalds) were building the future of well-being at work. And were just getting started.

The Role

As our Head of Engineering youll lead and grow a talented team of engineers and tech leads through OpenUPs transition to an AI-first company. Youll partner closely with product and data teams to both integrate AI into our user experience and champion the adoption of AI-driven tools and workflows throughout the engineering organization.

Youll lead by example: piloting new AI tools championing workflow improvements and upskilling the team. Youll also ensure we continue to deliver quality software at a predictable sustainable pace as we ramp up our use of AI. If you love guiding teams through change enjoy technical coaching and want to help define what AI-first engineering looks like in practice this is your chance.

What AI-first Means at OpenUp

• AI as product: We are building user-facing features powered by the latest in AI/ML (LLMs generative AI intelligent coaching etc.).
• AI in workflow: Were committed to piloting and gradually adopting AI-driven tools (for code generation automated testing bug triage and more) to help our engineers build and ship faster with higher quality.
• Pragmatic transformation: AI is a core strategic focus but we know not everything can or should be automated overnight. We value leaders who can balance experimentation with pragmatism and help bring the whole team along for the rideyour leadership will be critical in charting this course and ensuring meaningful adoption across the team.

About You

• 5 years of experience in engineering leadership (e.g. Head Director or Engineering Manager) in a SaaS or tech product environment.
• Experience leading teams through technical or workflow transformations (e.g. adopting new tools frameworks or methodologies).
• Proven ability to mentor coach and develop engineers and tech leadsespecially in times of change or upskilling.
• Demonstrated experience integrating or shipping AI/ML-powered product features or engineering tools.
• Deep technical expertise in software engineering fundamentals (cloud CI/CD security code quality) and a strong interest in the evolving AI tool landscape (e.g. LLMs MLOps code generation open-source and commercial AI platforms).
• Analytical metrics-driven approach to engineering management and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator across functions.
• Strong preference for candidates with DevOps and Infrastructure experience
• Knowledge / experience with the React is a great plus.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator across functions.

  Engineering Management & Performance

  • Lead mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team (1015 engineers 2 tech leads) ensuring delivery of roadmap goals and technical excellence.
  • Own and optimize engineering practicesvelocity quality reliability and scalable SDLC.
  • Set clear standards and use metrics to drive continuous improvement in delivery quality and developer productivity.
  
  

  AI-First Engineering Leadership

  • Develop and communicate a clear vision and roadmap for embedding AI in both our product and engineering practices.
  • Be a technical first-moverpilot validate and introduce new AI tools and workflows guiding adoption and scale.
  • Partner with tech leads and engineers to identify areas where AI can have the highest impact on our codebase processes and developer experience.
  • Lead upskilling and knowledge-sharing efforts to build team capability in AI/ML and modern software engineering.
  
  

  Collaboration & Communication

  • Work closely with Product Data and Design teams to deliver cohesive user-centric AI-powered features.
  • Communicate technical vision progress challenges and learnings to company leadership and the broader team.

  What Success Looks like

  • The team delivers robust user-facing AI-powered features and continuously improves engineering velocity and quality.
  • AI tooling is adopted pragmaticallystarting with pilots and iterating based on impact and learning for full scale adoption
  • The engineering teams skills and confidence in using AI steadily increase with knowledge-sharing and upskilling as a regular part of team culture.

What you can expect

Joining OpenUp means being part of a fast-growing company thats doing something meaningful. Youll work with a diverse and international team. We like to have fun together with many team-building activities like our weekly borrels and after-work sports classes the yearly ski-trip and our Padel tournament. This makes our work fun challenging and dynamic. Apart from this we offer:

• 1500 annual personal development budget
• Monthly home internet/phone contribution
• Daily healthy and vegetarian lunch at our office.
• Weekly office yoga meditation classes or breathing exercises
• Flexible work model (hybrid and options for remote work).
• Monthly drinks and company wide summer fest and other fun activities.
• 27.5 vacation days per year.
• Free and unlimited access for you and your family to all our products including our psychologists.