Head of Engineering, Platform

Are you an engineer at heart? Someone who wants to take responsibility for the largest streaming guide in the world and the platform that powers it?

We're JustWatch. Boring technology, hard problems. Golang, VueJS, Postgres, Kubernetes, Prometheus on GCP. We use more specialised tools where we need them. We're searching for an engineer who follows first principles and focuses on business value over elaborate processes. You place bets and end up with more wins than fails. Wherever you fail, you own it and learn from it in a blameless culture. You go bold, with strong opinions, loosely held.

Attitude over aptitude. We hire potential and results first. You should be able to explain what you did in plain English. You lead with a service attitude, honest communication, and a pragmatic mindset. You won't grow the number of direct reports just to fill a management chart. You'll lead a small team of SREs and level up their game. Your mindset is to grow the company. The rest follows naturally.

This isn't a 9-to-5 job. While you'll find one of the smoothest-running shops with around one hundred fully observable services in production, things will go down occasionally, and it'll be your job to coordinate incident response.

You can stay on the fine line between promoting cutting-edge technology to developers and running a stable ship when in doubt. You're not waiting to be told how an engineering platform should look; you tell us.

We love challenging goals. We question everything. We're always learning, and we execute with excellence. We believe in the 80/20 rule and apply common sense and pragmatism to everything.

• Contribute to the architecture and code base. This is not a 100% managerial role; everyone at JustWatch gets their hands dirty.
• Lead a small team that operates the largest streaming guide in the world.
• Own the continuous operation of the platform, including full responsibility for budget and KPIs.
• Own incident response from paging to postmortem.
• Build the roadmap and the future of the JustWatch development platform.

• Several years of engineering experience.
• Experience in Golang (development, not just SRE topics), Kubernetes, and containerised cloud infrastructure.
• Experience operating large-scale systems and databases.
• Project management basics. We keep the structure lightweight, but you should have delivered at least one large project.
• Located in Berlin or close enough in Brandenburg to collaborate in the office at least twice a week.

Media is important to us, and we are always happy to hear from people who enjoy film If you feel like you are missing some of the hard skills, don't worry, we are hiring for the attitude, values, and personality. 

If we caught your attention and you're eager to delve into our perspectives and thought processes, we recommend immersing yourself in our blog post, which elaborates on these subjects:

- A company culture that really works

- Audience as a Service

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How to apply

Just hit the apply button at the bottom of this page, and leave us your CV, info, and a short intro that gives us an idea of what motivates you, why you want to work at JustWatch, and how you think you will help us achieve our goals.

Please only apply if you are interested. Copy&paste mass applications will receive a copy&paste rejection email. The same goes for ChatGPT-powered applications. If you have any questions, please reach out to our talent team via LinkedIn or apply to this role directly through our jobs page.

Research shows women apply when meeting 100% qualifications, and men at 60%. JustWatch welcomes all candidates, especially women and marginalized groups. Apply, let's talk, and explore if you're a great fit.