ABOUT STAFFBASE

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication. Our award-winning communications channels - intranet, employee app and email - deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.
We’re headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.
Staffbase is on a mission to help companies communicate more effectively with their employees. Our platform is the central hub for thousands of businesses worldwide, powered by a resilient and scalable foundation. As our Director of Engineering, Foundations, you’ll play a key role in this mission. You will guide the teams responsible for evolving and supporting the core platform and infrastructure that enable all our product innovation.
This is an important role for a visionary leader who is passionate about nurturing world-class platforms, cultivating a culture of technical excellence, and enabling engineering teams to do their best work. You’ll oversee the core services that support our products, from web and native app delivery, through our cloud architecture, to our internal developer tools and data engineering pipelines.
You will report directly to the SVP of Engineering and lead an inclusive, collaborative organisation of around 30 people. Your leadership will help create a culture where everyone can do their best work, contribute ideas, and grow their careers.

• Engineering Leadership: Guide, mentor, and inspire a team of Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Team Support: Provide direction and encouragement to the teams delivering our web and native apps, internal developer tools, APIs, QA, cloud infrastructure (SRE), application security, and data engineering
• Platform Vision: Shape and carry forward the technical roadmap for our core platform, infrastructure, and security. Serve as the primary advocate for the Foundations Unit, ensuring platform initiatives are aligned with business needs and informed by customer feedback
• Product and Customer Focus: Promote a customer-centric approach within the Foundations Unit, including engaging with customers on infrastructure and various non-functional requirements, and helping the business navigate our competitive landscape through the lens of an infrastructure specialist