Who we are

We are a YC backed company shaping the future of social good through a combination of tech, design, and culture. Our products help people and companies create positive change by making it easy, fun, and exciting to give back.

Deed’s award-winning social volunteering app is currently being used by tens of thousands of volunteers, helping over 1,000 nonprofit organizations fulfill their mission. Our enterprise platform enables brands to manage, track, analyze, and quantify the social impact of their employees, as well as their participating consumers. We are leading the path-to-purpose with trailblazers like Adidas, Stripe, and Airbnb. And that roster is growing, so we are looking for people with big hearts, and big brains, to join our passionate crew. 

If you are someone who cares about social good (and technology solutions that scale social good), can work effectively in small teams, and are a self-starter who wants an opportunity to shape and have a meaningful impact at an early-stage startup, we invite you to apply for one of the positions below. Let’s do some good every day, together!

About the role

The Head of Engineering will be an experienced business operations and technical leader who is responsible for all aspects of managing Deed’s engineering team and leading it through significant anticipated growth in the coming years. S/he will partner with the CTO and CEO to help shape the technology direction of the company and will provide a critical voice in influencing how Deed’s products will impact the Corporate Social Responsibility space. S/he will also work with the team to ensure the engineers are highly engaged, efficient, and delivering world-class SaaS products. The Head of Engineering’s passion will show in both the product innovation and consumer experience and will inspire peers and teams.

The verticals that we tackle - volunteerism, fundraising for nonprofits, social impact measurement - are challenging but extremely rewarding. Opportunities for learning are incredible and the impact is unlimited. If you want to make progress happen, we welcome you to apply for this job.

Duties and responsibilities

• Lead the overall planning, development, and deployment of Validity’s SaaS products.
• Develop and implement an architectural strategy to ensure platform security, scalability, and resilience.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams including product management, sales customer success regarding development schedules, backlog, and roadmap.
• Implement engineering best practices to optimize development cycles as well as increase predictability and product quality.
• Manage resources effectively to resolve customer issues immediately without delaying development or overloading development teams.
• Hire and develop top engineering talent. Create a hiring plan that scales the team with the growth of the business.
• Lead the team in a way that promotes failing fast to succeed sooner when generating and testing new concepts.
• Leverage intuition on what works in the marketplace as well as new learnings from customer feedback and field research to iterate and improve the product.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of previous software development and engineering leadership experience with at least 5 years of experience leading and scaling software/development engineering teams in a hyper-growth SaaS or product technology company.
• Experienced at organizing agile software teams to deliver high-quality features
• Knowledgeable about best practices in areas of Architecture, Security, and Compliance
• Experience identifying top talent and developing team members.
• History of managing teams by establishing goals, measuring success, and holding team members accountable.
• Demonstrated understanding of the business environment and relevant strategic, developmental, and operational drivers.
• Ability to balance being hands-on with having a 30,000 feet perspective.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and own the success of the products jointly with other disciplines.
• Ability to work within a dynamic, entrepreneurial, deadline-driven environment.

Why Deed?

• Help us change the world 💪
• Cool office in Kreuzberg 
• Opportunities for international travel (Brooklyn, Portland, San Francisco)
• Generous volunteering policy
• Flexible working arrangements

Our Team’s Culture & Benefits

At Deed, our ambition is to change the world for the better. This means that we have high expectations of one another, and ourselves. The work is challenging, fast-paced, and sometimes it extends beyond a 40 hour week. And yet, it works because we always have each other’s backs, and we always offer the flexibility to make daily choices that ensure we are sound in mind, body, and spirit.

A diverse and inclusive workplace is also an integral part of our culture. We actively welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives because that is how we best learn. From an operational perspective, our benefits include comprehensive health as well as professional development. All of this is to say that in order to do the best work of our lives, we understand that it begins with us – the people who work at Deed. If you are still enthusiastic after reading this, we’d love to meet and see if we’re right for one another.

Deed is an equal opportunity employer.