Moss - Head of Engineering (f/m/d)

• Velocity first, with high agency. Working smart and hard on the right problems. • Velocity first, with high agency. • Lead by example, stay close to the work. You know the details of what your team is building and course-correct in real time. You get hands-on when speed or quality is on the line. • Lead by example, stay close to the work. • End-to-end ownership of outcomes. Responsibility doesn't stop at your team's boundary. Make changes elsewhere when that's what it takes, communicating first, not unilaterally. • End-to-end ownership of outcomes. • No waterfall, no blame. Product, Design and Engineering work together from the start. If there's a gap in the trio, fill it or name it. • No waterfall, no blame. • Disagree and commit. Challenge when it matters. Once a call is made, own the message and explain the why, including for calls you argued against. • Disagree and commit. • Proactive expertise. We build expert products for finance teams. Decisions rest on real expertise, internal and external, not assumptions. • Proactive expertise. • Moss has one manager framework for every people leader, and this role is held to it in full: build a high-performing team, define success clearly, deliver results with your team, and operate with speed and ownership. You can hold us to it too. • 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. • 4 to 6+ years in engineering management • 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. • A senior engineering career before that. • 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. • Strong systems design. • 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. • Comfort as a technical peer to product leadership. • 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. • Structure at scale without a middle layer. • Fast in unfamiliar domains. You can reason about a new technical domain quickly and contribute before you have deep prior expertise in it. • Fast in unfamiliar domains. • 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. • Experience from an environment with mature engineering practices • Strong pluses • Strong pluses • 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. • What this role is, and isn't • It's worth being clear about the shape of the job. Your technical contribution is judgement, challenge and architecture-level input; Tech Leads own the how and write the code alongside their squads, so this isn't a role with an IC workload attached. And it's a role where you manage engineers, not managers: every engineer in the tribe reports to you directly, there is no management layer beneath you, and we don't plan to add one. If that combination of deep people leadership and real technical engagement is what you're looking for, you'll find a lot to like here. • Moss is the Finance AI platform for Europe's mid-sized businesses, giving companies real-time visibility and full control over their spend. By automating card issuing, invoice management and expenses, Moss simplifies financial workflows and frees finance and accounting teams from manual, administrative work. • Founded in Berlin and used by more than 10,000 businesses including Flink, Schufa, n8n and Auto1, Moss has raised €220+ million to date and operates in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and further EU markets. In August 2026, Moss closed a €35 million Series C led by Portage, crossing a €1 billion valuation and becoming one of Europe's newest fintech unicorns. Moss is backed by investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Global Founders Capital, Cherry Ventures, A-Star. • We're a team of 300+ people from 50+ nationalities across 5 offices in Europe and we hire, reward, and grow people based on Moss DNA: playing to win, obsessing over quality, winning as One Moss. If that's how you want to work, we want to hear from you. - here's what else to expect: • what else to expect: • 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. • Additional benefits include: 20 days “work from abroad”, 600EUR/GBP Learning & Development Budget, and other local benefits. • Unless stated otherwise, benefits apply to full-time positions (interns and working students receive a tailored package). • By applying for the above position, you will confirm that you have reviewed and agreed to our Data Privacy Policy. • By applying for the above position, you will confirm that you have reviewed and agreed to our • Data Privacy Policy