Head of Engineering

We’re hiring a strategic Head of Engineering to lead multiple squads delivering the systems behind Ohme’s smart charging experience. You’ll set technical direction, shape the operating model, and grow leaders. This is a senior leadership role with minimal hands-on coding, focused instead on technical direction, organisational design, and operational excellence across our digital backbone. A core focus is embedding AI capabilities that make charging cheaper, greener, and simpler.

You’ll partner with all facets of Ohme’s ecosystem to turn customer needs into well‑vetted roadmaps, elevate engineering practices, and ship reliably at pace. This role is ideal for a systems‑minded leader who enjoys solving complex real-life problems, fostering alignment, and scaling teams.

• →Technical strategy & architecture: Own the multi‑year architecture across services including AI/ML lifecycle.
• →Org & operating model: Define how squads work (charters, decision rights, planning cadence, cross‑squad interfaces) to enable dependable delivery.
• →Process & practices: Set engineering standards: Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding, documentation and architectural guardrails.
• →Reliability & incidents: Run on‑call design, SLIs/SLOs, runbooks and post‑incident reviews; ensure crisp bug escalation and safe, progressive releases.
• →Product partnership: Challenge and refine requirements with Product to balance ambition, feasibility and architectural integrity.
• →People & growth: Recruit exceptional talent, design effective onboarding, coach leads, set a motivating team vision, and build an inclusive, high‑accountability culture.
• →Procurement & tooling: Own the developer‑experience stack and vendor choices to improve velocity and quality.
• →Business reporting: Provide transparent updates on delivery, risk, quality and strategic progress to senior leadership.
• →Leadership: Collaborate with the CEO and senior leadership as a strategic partner, providing bold ideas, constructive challenge, and operational focus. Shape and influence the broader business strategy through deep technical insight.

• Confident people leader with 6+ years guiding multiple squads in product environments.
• Demonstrable knowledge in cloud/distributed systems ideally in JVM at high-scale, product-first company.
• Track record embedding AI/ML in production systems tied to measurable outcomes.
• Strong architectural judgement and operational maturity.
• Confident challenging requirements and explaining trade‑offs to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional collaborator with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Culture‑builder who recruits well, onboards effectively, and motivates through clarity, purpose and growth.