# VP/Head of Engineering (all genders) at Eorbit Gmbh > Germany · Director+ · Engineering management · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Aeorbit-gmbh%3A2732435 (read 2026-11-11). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Eorbit Gmbh](https://alderhq.app/companies/eorbit-gmbh) - Location text: Leipzig; München - Where it can be done from (inferred): Germany (evidence: "Location: Leipzig; München") - Posted: 2026-07-28 (106 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-08 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://eorbit-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/job/2732435 - Skills listed (inferred): LLMs, Distributed systems ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (Germany, n 9): p25 €125k, median €130k, p75 €140k ## Description (the employer's text) ### Your mission Full technical ownership of Rocket — reporting directly to the founders, with no layer in between In this role you own engineering at MICE DESK — fully. There is no CTO layer above you: architecture, technology, delivery, and team are yours, and you report directly to the founders. This is a hands-on leadership role. You lead the engineering team including our AI/Data function, own the interface to Product, and are accountable for everything that ships. - Engineering, end-to-end. Architecture, system design, delivery against the roadmap, reliability, technical debt. Backend, frontend, DevOps, QA, and the AI/Data team all roll up to you. You set lightweight processes that let a small team ship fast without breaking things. - An AI-enabled engineering pipeline. We don't just build AI products — we build with AI. You make the engineering organization itself AI-native: agentic coding workflows, AI-assisted review and testing, automation of everything repetitive. A small team should ship like one three times its size — making that true is your job. - AI as a core system capability. You architect the integration of LLMs and agentic workflows into production systems: deterministic logic combined with AI-generated outputs, with real validation, fallbacks, and reliability strategies. Hotel operations run on our platform — non-determinism is no excuse for unreliability. - The team. Hire, mentor, scale. You inherit a strong small team and grow it into a high-performance engineering organization with a culture of ownership and speed. Our distributed hiring strategy across multiple locations is yours as well. - Product and business alignment. You work directly with the founders and Product. You challenge requirements, simplify complexity, and connect engineering work to outcomes: revenue, automation, customer impact. As we enter the US market, engineering has to keep pace with enterprise-scale customers on two continents. ### What success looks like - 6 months: Delivery is predictable, the AI-enabled dev pipeline is running, and the team has grown with A-players you hired. - 12 months: The platform scales with US enterprise customers, core systems are reliable and observable, and engineering is a competitive advantage — not a bottleneck. Honestly: This is full accountability with no net above it. No CTO layer to make or catch decisions — the architecture, the team, and everything that ships are yours. If you want a role where someone above you sets direction, this isn't it. If you want exactly that ownership, it is. ### Your profile - 10+ years of software engineering, 5+ in an engineering leadership role at high-growth product companies. - Strong hands-on backend or full-stack background — you can still go deep. - Proven experience scaling engineering teams at growing startups. - Strong architecture expertise: APIs, distributed systems, event-driven design, cloud. - LLM / agentic AI systems in production — and genuine conviction that engineering itself should be AI-assisted. - Product mindset: you connect technical decisions to business outcomes. - Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and full accountability. Nice to have, not required: Background in hospitality tech, CRM, PMS, or revenue management. Enterprise integration experience (Salesforce, Oracle OPERA Cloud, Microsoft Graph API). Experience leading distributed, international teams. ### Why us? What that means for you: you work with AI, not despite it. People who join us give feedback that shapes product decisions — and sooner or later come to understand why one prompt works better than another. And because we are growing fast, a lot here is still taking shape. Sometimes the honest answer is “we’re still building that.” That is exactly where the opportunity lies: you will find open space rather than finished structures, and what you build here will carry your signature. ### What we offer - Work with real AI technology at international level — not as a pilot project, but as our business model. - Genuine room to shape things. Your ideas do not land in a suggestion box; they land in the next iteration. - A short path to the management team. Decisions take days, not committee rounds. - Growth you are part of. We are building the company’s next chapter — with roles, responsibility and prospects that did not exist a year ago. - Leipzig as your primary base, with regular time in the office and flexible remote work. Hybrid models are everyday practice here, not the exception. - Permanent contract, full-time. - Performance bonuses for demonstrable results. - Multi-day team events in places that are actually fun. ### Our hiring process - Intro interview — we get to know each other, and you learn where we stand and where we are heading. - Leadership study or technical study, depending on the role — a real problem from our day-to-day that we work through together. ### Founder interview --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Aeorbit-gmbh%3A2732435 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.