Head of Engineering | VP Eng @ VC backed company

Engineering teams · DevOps · Delivery · Tech debt

Work at an XAnge portfolio startup

You would join one of XAnge’s 80+ portfolio companies: fast-growing European tech startups building meaningful products across B2B SaaS, Healthtech, Fintech, Climatetech, Deeptech and beyond. These are scale-ups where execution and delivery velocity keep the company ahead, with small, ambitious teams where ownership is real, decisions are fast, and your impact is visible from day one. Every company in the pool is backed by XAnge (Siparex Group) and surrounded by a community of 80+ founders and operators to lean on.

The team and why we need you

As Head of Engineering / VP Eng, you typically join a company whose engineering team is growing fast and needs structure, process and delivery discipline. Where a CTO often owns the technical vision, you own execution: how the team is organized, how it ships, and how quality holds up at scale. You report to the CTO or CEO and work closely with Product.

Why we need you

Scaling a team from a handful of engineers to dozens without losing velocity or quality is the challenge.

Your goals as Head of Engineering / VP Eng

Your mission is to make engineering deliver, reliably and at pace, as it scales. Typically, you will:

1. Recruit, structure and develop the engineering team (5 to 50+ engineers).
2. Own delivery: CI/CD, agile/scrum, code quality standards and incident management.
3. Keep velocity high while managing technical debt and reliability.
4. Translate technical constraints into business terms with Product and leadership.

Who we’re looking for

We care about track record and mindset, not pedigree. 10+ years is a guideline, not a hard rule: exceptional profiles below that threshold are welcome.

Preferred experience: 10+ years in software engineering with several years managing engineering teams, having recruited and grown teams from 5 to 50+.

Hard skills: cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), backend, APIs, microservices, DevOps; engineering processes (CI/CD, agile/scrum, code quality, incident management); delivery at pace; platform engineering, data pipelines or AI/ML infrastructure a plus.

Soft skills: people leadership and coaching; clear communication with Product and business; organized and process-driven; pragmatic; calm under pressure.

Also relevant: VP Engineering, Engineering Director, Tech Lead Manager