VP Engineering (f/m/d)

Your mission at Green Fusion

Green Fusion is a 100-person climate tech company optimizing heating systems at scale across Germany, with expansion into France. We connect to building infrastructure via proprietary hardware, collect real-time data, and deliver energy savings through algorithmic optimization.

We’re transitioning from fast, early-stage execution to a more structured, product-led engineering organization and need help making that shift work in practice.

As VP of Engineering, you will partner up with our CTO, CPO & CEngO to take our technology organization to the next growth level. You’ll own how we develop across all tech teams and bring the structural clarity our growing organization needs. You’ll have clear decision-making authority over engineering processes, standards, and team structure, in close partnership with the CTO.

What You’ll Own

People

• Unify delivery process across 5+ Squads and with 35+ technical team members, including software and hardware engineers, designers, data scientists, and system engineers.
• Shape leadership culture for the technical teams and mentor leaders in your team, and develop junior managers from within the team

• Establish engineering standards: introduce consistent development processes, quality gates, and clear boundaries between discovery/prototyping and delivery
• Drive tech-roadmap discipline, increase alignment between engineering work and product priorities, reducing unplanned work while enabling balanced innovation initiatives
• Raise engineering throughput via AI-assisted development workflows

• Tackle tech debt and platform scalability: identify and execute the highest-leverage architectural improvements

• Drive the technology roadmap (with the CTO & CPO), aligning platform and infrastructure investments with product/customer priorities

Your profile

• 15+ years in software engineering, with significant leadership experience - ideally as CTO or VP Engineering at startups or scale-ups that have surpassed 50 technical team members

• Experience building engineering organizations (hiring, leveling, process design, team structure), not just managing them; especially with empowered, cross-functional product teams (Squads and Chapter model)
• Strong architectural judgment across cloud infrastructure (AWS), data systems, and hardware/software integration (if necessary supported by further external resources)
• Comfort operating in ambiguity - able to impose structure without waiting for perfect information
• Embracing of AI as a key enabler in building technology organisations today
• People-first leadership: experienced in coaching managers, resolving cross-team friction, and raising the performance bar and inviting people to become their best self
• Fluent English required; German strongly preferred
• Preferred: Experience in energy, IoT, or hardware-software integration domains

• Track record of cloud migration or platform modernization

About us

We are Green Fusion. We help the housing industry to make the heating and energy transition more sustainable – for a green future without compromise. By providing intelligent automation and optimization for a building's entire energy ecosystem, we reduce CO₂ emissions where it matters most. Whether it’s heat pumps, PV systems, or hybrid setups: our product serves as the interface between hardware and software, making maximum sustainability economically viable. Together, we are transforming the building sector and making efficient, climate-neutral energy the new standard.

While we are still considered pioneers today, with you by our side, we will soon dominate the market! Starting in the DACH region, and then across all of Europe. You can expect a motivated, open-minded, and vibrant team that is passionate about actively shaping the energy transition and growing together.

Our Employee Benefits:

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  Urban Sports Club or Become1 vouchers – a monthly bonus to support your lifestyle.
• Work flexibility & Home office – Work remotely from home, at our Berlin office at Schlesisches Tor, or up to 50 days a year worldwide.
• Personal growth & professional development – whether through your personal learning budget, exciting on-the-job challenges, or our open feedback culture.
• Direct impact through your work – join us in actively driving the energy transition and contribute to the fight against climate change every single day.
• We value our team – that’s why regular team events are a core part of our culture.
• The best team Berlin has to offer – and maybe even beyond. Don't believe us? Find out for yourself and apply now!