Head of Engineering fmd

About the role

As Head of Engineering (f/m/d) you will be the driving force behind our technical strategy overseeing the entire software lifecycle and the implementation of all products and features. Your role is pivotal in determining the technical direction for product development and resource allocation across various projects. This position offers an opportunity to lead a rapidly growing team of over 30 engineers comprised of team leads and individual contributors and to shape the future of our engineering efforts.

What youll do

• Team Leadership : Personnel responsibility and full ownership of the daytoday function and management of a team of 30 engineers in total together with Frontend and Backend team lead. The team has gone through a phase of growth that is expected to continue. Coach and mentor team leads and individual contributors with the help of Employee Experience to develop talent within the team and work on performance improvement when required.
• Strategic Technical Leadership: Drive the overarching technical vision for our suite of products to provide value to customers ensure maintainability and achieve the companys business goals. Foster innovation while being robust scalable and fitforfuture. Anticipate industry shifts and adapt our technological directions proactively. Work alongside senior team members to define and weigh in on core technical decisions and architectural changes.
• EndtoEnd Software Lifecycle Ownership: Bear endtoend responsibility for the overall system architecture and lead the recommendation and selection of technology stack components and services. Drive improvements on our existing processes ranging from technical design to code review and incident response to ensure a high level of productivity quality performance and reliability within the team. Own the software development life cycle and methodologies in use at the development team and work together with the Head of Product to ensure that we can deliver products on time and at cost.
• Collaborative Operations: Facilitate communication between crossproduct teams such as Data Science and Quality Assurance with product teams and stay on top of resource allocation and activities to ensure that projects run on time. Collaborate with your peers in Support Product Management Product Design and IT Operations on crosscutting projects.
• Resource Allocation: Work closely with product management on engineering resource capacity planning and allocation and that work estimates are realistic and achievable with attainable goals. Own and oversee the engineering budget which includes but is not limited to software licenses R&D hardware and team travel expenses.

We are looking for someone with

• Minimum 5 years of experience managing engineering teams including managing and mentoring team leads and individual contributors and guiding groups through periods of strategic and technical change.
• A proven track record of managing large engineering teams (30 engineers) and shipping userfacing products preferably in a cloud platform.
• The Ability to scale and adopt best practices from prior experience and other sources to Cropsters situation and needs.
• The Ability to balance business needs and technical challenges and communicate tradeoffs effectively and with empathy.
• Passion to understand customer needs and a strong motivation to solve their problems rather than focusing on technology as an end in itself.
• The Ability to take decisive short and longterm decisions and actions under uncertainty.
• A people first mindset but also with strong desire to structure their work through clearly defined and transparent processes.
• Strong verbal visual and written communication skills with the ability to explain approach to all levels in the organization.At this point Cropster will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Austria for this opening now and in the future. For NonEU applicants: please attach your work permit to your application.

What you can expect

The salary range for this position is 75K to 85K gross/year and we look at factors like your experience and individual qualifications to determine our offer which includes benefits like an educational and wellness budget remote work possibilities and working from home flexible working hours paid time for volunteer work an endless stream of really great coffee and much more. We also make our best possible offer upfrontno games.

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We look forward to receiving your application! If you have any questions dont hesitate to contact our team at .