About your teams
MOIA has many great teams and is organized in business units that are themselves composed of domains. As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for one domain and the four to six technical teams within it. You pair with the Product- and, where applicable, Design-Directors to support the teams in finding the right balance between technical excellence, maintaining a high customer focus and reliably delivering product increments.
The role includes technical leadership as well as people management. Besides the work inside your domain and your unit, you are part of the overarching technical leadership team with all the engineering Directors, the Chapter Leads, Technical Leads, and the CTO.
The engineering teams use modern languages (e.g., Kotlin, TypeScript, Scala, Rust, Golang, Swift, Dart) in combination with cloud services (e.g., AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, RDS and Kubernetes) and are responsible for the discovery of what product increment to deliver next, as well as the full software lifecycle, including testing and operating the services ("you build it, you run it").
What you will do
- Proactively Collaborate: Engage with multiple distributed teams within your business unit to ensure alignment and synergy.
- Influence Product Roadmap: Work closely with the Product Director to shape and influence the product roadmap, ensuring it aligns with company goals and customer needs.
- Lead with Servant Leadership: Guide and inspire world-class engineering teams using a servant leadership approach, fostering a supportive and empowering environment.
- Empower Teams: Support a bottom-up tech culture, empowering your teams to take ownership and responsibility for their work.
- Assure Quality: Ensure the systems owned by your teams meet the highest quality standards, including code reviews, testing, and validation processes across team boundaries. Your teams are set up cross functional including a Quality Specialist.
- Conduct Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to address them effectively.
- Strategic Contribution: Partner with peers across product, tech, and design to contribute to the overall company strategy, and effectively communicate this strategy to teams and stakeholders at various levels.
- Culture Development: Play an active role in shaping and nurturing the MOIA tech culture, ensuring it remains innovative and inclusive.
- Support Cross-Unit Projects: Contribute to cross-unit autonomous driving and licensing projects, leveraging your expertise to drive success.
- Drive Architecture: Develop and lead Staff-Level roles (Architect, Tech Lead, ..) to drive the development of our Architecture (Mobile, Cloud, Authentication, Customer Tenancy) to enable our services to be offered to various cities, ensuring scalability and reliability.
What will help you to fulfill your role
- Interest in helping highly self-organized and cross-functional teams to work together towards a shared goal
- A deep understanding of building digital products and modern software engineering, at scale
- Experience navigating between "startup" and "enterprise" culture
- A strong background in technology common to the mobile development space such as Swift, Firebase, Kotlin, Flutter, Protobuf, AWS Lambda, etc
- Having a deep knowledge of team and organizational setups, e.g. Conway's Law, Team Topologies, Dunbar's number as well as knowledge of agile methods and frameworks
- Having strong leadership experience (Delegation, Mentoring, Empowerment, Servant Leadership)
- Experience in growing and enabling diverse multinational teams
- Experience in collaborating with stakeholders from different functions, including compliance topics
- Interest in bringing your products forward and having a strong customer focus as well as a good technical understanding
- Excellent communication skills in English, and at least B1 German skills is a must (due to external stakeholders)
We encourage you to apply even if your profile does not meet all the requirements for the role yet. We embrace individual growth at MOIA.
In case you have questions regarding your application, you can approach the recruiter Jovana directly.
Our benefits in a nutshell
- Competitive salary (including bonus)
- Hybrid work setup, flexible working hours, and possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.)
- Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup
- Possibility of remote work from outside of Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 40 different countries - Connect work & travel!
- Public transport ticket (fully subsidized) for commuting and traveling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
- Subsidized fitness club membership or bike leasing
- Learning environment with continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings and workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes
- Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops
- 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
- Relocation support with service provider (visa, administration, etc.)
- Dog-friendly offices (at our Hamburg location)
For student & internship positions, we have an adjusted set of benefits. You can find them here.
Be who you are!
We are a member of Charta der Vielfalt and are dedicated to actively fostering a workplace that celebrates and promotes diversity in various aspects such as age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, and ethnicity. At MOIA, we embrace a culture where people are accepted, respected, valued, appreciated, and included.
In our commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity, we regularly provide unconscious bias training to all our employees. Furthermore, we continuously strive to enhance our hiring process by ensuring a diverse hiring panel.
To reinforce an unbiased screening process, we kindly ask you not to include your picture, age, address, or any other details that are unrelated to your qualifications and suitability for the role.
Our Future Work model
Since we love to collaborate, it is clear to us that we don't want to become a fully remote company, but we also don't need to spend every day of the week in the office to do a great job.
Our current hybrid work approach focuses on adapting to different needs, including increased flexibility that works best for the teams and the individuals with as much self-determination as possible.
Get more insights on how we work on our blog to find out more about our hiring process or follow us on Instagram for a look inside MOIA.
Who we are
At MOIA GmbH, our team of more than 350 employees develops the technical products for our on-demand ridepooling service in the form of an end-to-end integrated product, from hub, fleet, and driver management to passenger and B2B solutions. At the same time, we want to make the vision of an autonomously driving mobility service a reality and plan to bring the first autonomous MOIA ridepooling vehicle to the streets by 2025.
At our offices in Berlin and Hamburg, international teams of developers, engineers, designers, and strategists work on a shared mission. As a tech company, more than half of our employees are developers. We pursue value-driven development based on our product values of comfort, reliability, safety, and privacy.
We aspire to be a leading company in the fields of rethinking mobility and improving urban transportation by making it more relaxed, more affordable and an entirely positive experience for everyone.
MOIA gets things moving. On a shared journey – towards an easier, smarter, and more meaningful future.
