Director of Engineering
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the technical direction and standards for frontend applications. You will partner with Staff Engineers, lead Engineering Managers, address monorepo workflow bottlenecks, improve release engineering and deployment automation, and promote AI-enabled client experiences.
Requirements
- Lead significant engineering organisations.
- Understand high-scale frontend architecture.
- Debate technical trade-offs to achieve business outcomes.
- Apply frontend best practices pragmatically.
- Improve efficiency and modernise mobile release cycles.
- Connect technical foundations with team velocity.
- Communicate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Drive a pragmatic frontend strategy with Staff Engineers.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks in large-scale monorepo workflows.
- Evaluate the technology stack and workforce model to improve engineering leverage.
- Advocate for product virtualisation and observability systems.
- Deliver a modern release engineering model with comprehensive automation.
- Prioritise high-frequency, predictable deployment cycles.
- Provide thought leadership on AI and agentic client-side solutions.
- Explore AI approaches to optimise frontend performance, automate interactions, and personalise member experiences.
Benefits
- Share options.
- Remote-first work.
- 25 days of paid annual leave.
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities.
- Private health insurance.
- Mental health support platform.
- FitPass.
- Family-friendly leave according to statutory requirements.
- Personal learning and development budget.
