VP of Engineering

Posted 6 Days Ago
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Berlin, DEU
In-Office
200K-300K Annually
Entry level
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role
Own engineering execution, quality, reliability, and people leadership while reporting to the CTO. Build a high-performing, AI-native engineering organization; improve experimentation and release velocity; establish QA practices; develop engineering leaders; and align Frontend, Backend, Reliability, Product, and Design around business outcomes and shared priorities.
Summary Generated by Built In

This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).

We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 80 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.

VP of Engineering

Berlin, Onsite

What Makes This Role Exciting
  • Own engineering end to end (execution, quality, reliability, and people), reporting to our CTO at Almedia, Germany's fastest-growing company by YoY revenue.

  • Shape a lean, high-performing team with AI as core to the way the team ships.

  • Get engineers onto the highest-impact work, with a shared way of prioritising alongside Product and Design.

Your Mission
  • Partner with the executive team, Product, and Design to turn ideas into experiments and successful releases.

  • Make AI-native workflows the default, cutting the time from hypothesis to live experiment to decision, so more experiments reach customers without more defects.

  • Build a QA function that prevents defects and keeps the site reliably up, with the authority to surface release risk early.

  • Build the leadership bench and engineering culture that let the org keep compounding.

What You Bring
  • Hands-on leader, strong in TypeScript, who writes and reviews code. This is how everyone operates here, starting with our CTO.

  • Already rethought how a team works with AI and shipped faster because of it.

  • Bonus: React Native, Python, data pipelines.

Your Track Record
  • Scaled engineering organisations through significant business growth, developing engineering managers.

  • Led Frontend, Backend, and Reliability functions, and know how to design the operating model that lets them move together at speed.

  • Partnered closely with Product and Design, turning business priorities into a shared roadmap.

  • Know how to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes, not just delivery metrics.

Why Almedia?
  • Grow With Almedia: Own meaningful equity in a company that's been profitable from day one.

  • Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.

  • Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.

  • We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.

We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

Skills Required

  • Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, including writing and reviewing code
  • Experience rethinking team workflows with AI and shipping faster as a result
  • Experience scaling engineering organizations through significant business growth
  • Experience developing engineering managers and building an engineering leadership bench
  • Experience leading Frontend, Backend, and Reliability functions
  • Experience designing engineering operating models that enable teams to move together efficiently
  • Experience partnering closely with Product and Design to create shared roadmaps
  • Ability to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes
  • React Native experience
  • Python experience
  • Data pipeline experience
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The Company
HQ: Berlin
121 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Freecash.com, owned by Almedia, helps you to advertise your app or digital products to a highly engaging target group. Almedia operates platforms that collectively have more than 25,000,000 members as their user base. Our mission is to help leading brands acquire new potential customers and obtain the most accurate insights. Among our main services is paid user acquisition, so we can supply any quantity of new users for any game, app, website, or other product. Our innovative, in-house engine provides marketers and agencies with many advanced features, helping them not only find answers to their business questions but also increase revenue and brand awareness. Our market research services deliver results faster and at a lower cost than traditional market research firms. In terms of key metrics such as engagement and quality of users, we consistently outperform the market. Our biggest platform today is called Freecash. Since its launch in 2020, Freecash has been one of the fastest-growing platforms that allow users to test a wide range of products, apps, websites, games, etc., and get rewarded. Within 4 years our users have already earned over $57.000.000. With more than 15M registered users and 1M active users monthly we're already a leader in the market. Very good 4.6 * TrustPilot rating with over 70.000 reviews, proves that our platform performs very well. Freecash platform is incessantly modernized and developed. To meet the needs of advertisers, we are constantly adding new features and improving our platform. Feel free to contact and join us!

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