Director of Engineering (m/f/d) - MaaS Unit (1-year limited contract)

Join us as a Director of Engineering (m/f/d) in our MaaS Unit, for an exciting 1-year (limited contract) mission to shape the future of mobility!

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 take technical leadership responsibility for one domain in the MaaS Unit, comprising four to six teams. The MaaS Unit focuses on providing mobility as a service (e.g. ridepooling) either via direct API integration or using our native world-class deeply-integrated whitelabel app.

You will 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.

This Director of Engineering role includes both technical leadership and people management responsibilities. Besides the work inside your domain and your unit, you will be a part of the overarching technical leadership team with all the engineering Directors, Chapter Leads, Technical Leads, Staff Engineers, and the C-Level.

The engineering teams use modern languages in combination with cloud services 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 stream-aligned and complicated subsystem teams within your business unit to ensure alignment and synergy.


• Influence 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 while deciding and clearly communicating the guardrails for strategic direction setting


• Assure Quality: Ensure the systems owned by your teams meet the highest quality standards, including code reviews, testing, and validation processes across team boundaries. 


• 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.


• Team staffing and Budgeting: Plan headcount needs, participate in hiring processes and budget allocations

What will help you to fulfill your role 

• You are interested in helping highly self-organized and cross-functional teams to work together towards a shared goal.


• You have interest in bringing your products forward and having a strong customer focus, as well as a good technical understanding.


• You have a deep understanding of building digital products and modern software engineering, at scale.


• You have 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.


• You have strong leadership experience (Delegation, Mentoring, Empowerment, Servant Leadership).


• You have experience in growing and enabling diverse multinational teams.


• You have experience in collaborating with stakeholders from different functions, including compliance topics.


• You have experience navigating between “startup” and “enterprise” culture.

In case you have questions regarding your application, you can approach the recruiter Patty directly.