VP Engineering

• Unify delivery process across 5+ Squads and with 35+ technical team members, including software and hardware engineers, designers, data scientists, and system engineers.
• Shape leadership culture for the technical teams and mentor leaders in your team, and develop junior managers from within the team

Processes

• Establish engineering standards: introduce consistent development processes, quality gates, and clear boundaries between discovery/prototyping and delivery
• Drive tech-roadmap discipline, increase alignment between engineering work and product priorities, reducing unplanned work while enabling balanced innovation initiatives
• Raise engineering throughput via AI-assisted development workflows

Technology

• Tackle tech debt and platform scalability: identify and execute the highest-leverage architectural improvements
• Drive the technology roadmap (with the CTO & CPO), aligning platform and infrastructure investments with product/customer priorities

• 15+ years in software engineering, withsignificant leadership experience - ideally as CTO or VP Engineering at startups or scale-ups that have surpassed 50 technical team members
• Experiencebuilding engineering organizations (hiring, leveling, process design, team structure), not just managing them; especially with empowered, cross-functional product teams (Squads and Chapter model)
• Strong architectural judgment across cloud infrastructure (AWS), data systems, and hardware/software integration (if necessary supported by further external resources)
• Comfort operating in ambiguity - able to impose structure without waiting for perfect information
• Embracing of AI as a key enabler in building technology organisations today
• People-first leadership: experienced in coaching managers, resolving cross-team friction, and raising the performance bar and inviting people to become their best self
• Fluent English required; German strongly preferred
• Preferred: Experience in energy, IoT, or hardware-software integration domains
• Track record of cloud migration or platform modernization

Green Fusion is a 100-person climate tech company optimizing heating systems at scale across Germany, with expansion into France. We connect to building infrastructure via proprietary hardware, collect real-time data, and deliver energy savings through algorithmic optimization.

We’re transitioning from fast, early-stage execution to a more structured, product-led engineering organization and need help making that shift work in practice.

As VP of Engineering, you will partner up with our CTO, CPO & CEngO to take our technology organization to the next growth level. Y ou’ll own how we develop across all tech teams and bring the structural clarity our growing organization needs. You’ll have clear decision-making authority over engineering processes, standards, and team structure, in close partnership with the CTO., Green Fusion