Head of Engineering | VP Eng @ VC backed company

Engineering teams · DevOps · Delivery · Tech debt

ℹ️ This is not a job posting for one specific company. XAnge is a VC firm: we keep a curated pool of senior profiles and introduce them to our portfolio startups when the right role opens up. This page describes what a Head of Engineering / VP Eng role typically looks like across our portfolio.

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

How it works

1. Submit your profile (a few minutes). We review on a rolling basis.

2. If it matches our criteria, you enter our curated talent pool, visible to founders across the portfolio, and standout profiles get featured in our Slack community and newsletter.

3. When a relevant role opens, we introduce you directly to the founders and support the process from there.

Interested in a Head of Engineering / VP Eng role at an XAnge portfolio company? Submit your profile here