About the Role As our Director of Software Development, you will take full ownership of our software function, leading a team of approx. 15 software experts (with close collaboration with the hardware/systems teams). Reporting to the CTO, you will be responsible for building a high-performing, value-driven product development culture, optimizing workflows, improving task triage, establishing best practices, and driving cross-functional collaboration across hardware, product, systems, supply, and customer success management. In more detail, the role encompasses the following key responsibilities: Leadership &amp; People<ul><li>Lead and develop our software engineering team (approx. 15 FTE, growing further)</li><li>Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring clear communication and accountability across all team activities</li><li>Mentor and grow managers/tech leads within the team, empowering them to effectively manage sub-teams and task streams  </li></ul>Agile Scaling &amp; Process Excellence<ul><li>Establish and scale agile practices that fit a high-growth, high-tech environment</li><li>Implement and refine workflows for task prioritization, allocation, and tracking to ensure clear visibility and progress tracking for all ongoing projects and features</li><li>Ensure efficient, transparent development processes and clear reporting, managing the development pipeline from concept to delivery</li><li>Drive continuous improvement in development, testing, and release cycles, focused on optimizing velocity and ensuring that work is aligned with product value </li></ul>Strategic Product Contribution<ul><li>Act as a sparring partner for the CTO and product leadership on roadmap and product development decisions</li><li>Contribute to product innovation and ensure software development supports long-term business goals, aligning development efforts with product roadmap and customer demands </li><li>Ensure effective integration of software with hardware and system components</li></ul> Cross-Functional Collaboration<ul><li>Partner with hardware, systems, supply chain, and operations to ensure timely delivery and product quality</li><li>Serve as the key software voice in company-wide decision making, advocating actionable process improvements that enhance development and delivery efficiency </li></ul>Technical &amp; Operational Excellence<ul><li>Deep technical understanding of software development, specifically for polyglot microservices and/or embedded linux IoT devices  </li><li>Ensure robust development and testing environments</li><li>Drive adoption of best practices for embedded software, safety, and scalability</li></ul> About You You are a strong fit for this role if you bring:<ul><li>Proven leadership experience in software or product development, with a track record of building, scaling, and guiding high-performing teams</li><li>The ability to translate product requirements and findings into actionable, well-structured development tasks, fostering disciplined execution and continuous improvement</li><li>A hands-on attitude combined with strong communication skills, inspiring ownership and accountability within your teams</li><li>Experience implementing and scaling agile processes, and building a culture of quality and reliability in development</li><li>A strong collaboration mindset with the ability to partner effectively across hardware, systems, product, and operations</li><li>Responsibility for released products, ensuring robustness and lifecycle support</li><li>The ability to adapt development workflows based on customer and field feedback, proactively identifying and resolving inefficiencies in the pipeline</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, balancing technical depth with workflow and product understanding</li><li>Fluency in English (German is a plus)</li><li>Willingness to work on-site in Munich</li></ul>Nice-to-have:<ul><li>Experience in scale-up/start-up environments</li><li>Familiarity with EV charging, e-mobility, or industrial controllers</li></ul> Why us? This is an opportunity to:<ul><li>Lead a mission-critical function in a fast-growing, market-leading scale-up</li><li>Shape the engineering culture and processes of a company driving the global EV transition</li><li>Work at the intersection of software, hardware, and systems in a high-impact role</li><li>Be part of an international growth journey with major expansion plans in Europe, North America, and beyond</li></ul>

EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.


Director of Software Development (m/f/d)

About the Role As our Director of Software Development, you will take full ownership of our software function, leading a team of approx. 15 software experts (with close collaboration with the hardware/systems teams). Reporting to the CTO, you will be responsible for building a high-performing, value-driven product development culture, optimizing workflows, improving task triage, establishing best practices, and driving cross-functional collaboration across hardware, product, systems, supply, and customer success management.&nbsp;In more detail, the role encompasses the following key responsibilities:&nbsp;Leadership &amp; People<ul><li>Lead and develop our software engineering team (approx. 15 FTE, growing further)</li><li>Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring clear communication and accountability across all team activities</li><li>Mentor and grow managers/tech leads within the team, empowering them to effectively manage sub-teams and task streams&nbsp; </li></ul>Agile Scaling &amp; Process Excellence<ul><li>Establish and scale agile practices that fit a high-growth, high-tech environment</li><li>Implement and refine workflows for task prioritization, allocation, and tracking to ensure clear visibility and progress tracking for all ongoing projects and features</li><li>Ensure efficient, transparent development processes and clear reporting, managing the development pipeline from concept to delivery</li><li>Drive continuous improvement in development, testing, and release cycles, focused on optimizing velocity and ensuring that work is aligned with product value </li></ul>Strategic Product Contribution<ul><li>Act as a sparring partner for the CTO and product leadership on roadmap and product development decisions</li><li>Contribute to product innovation and ensure software development supports long-term business goals, aligning development efforts with product roadmap and customer demands&nbsp;</li><li>Ensure effective integration of software with hardware and system components</li></ul> Cross-Functional Collaboration<ul><li>Partner with hardware, systems, supply chain, and operations to ensure timely delivery and product quality</li><li>Serve as the key software voice in company-wide decision making, advocating actionable process improvements that enhance development and delivery efficiency </li></ul>Technical &amp; Operational Excellence<ul><li>Deep technical understanding of software development, specifically for polyglot microservices and/or embedded linux IoT devices &nbsp;</li><li>Ensure robust development and testing environments</li><li>Drive adoption of best practices for embedded software, safety, and scalability</li></ul> About You You are a strong fit for this role if you bring:<ul><li>Proven leadership experience in software or product development, with a track record of building, scaling, and guiding high-performing teams</li><li>The ability to translate product requirements and findings into actionable, well-structured development tasks, fostering disciplined execution and continuous improvement</li><li>A hands-on attitude combined with strong communication skills, inspiring ownership and accountability within your teams</li><li>Experience implementing and scaling agile processes, and building a culture of quality and reliability in development</li><li>A strong collaboration mindset with the ability to partner effectively across hardware, systems, product, and operations</li><li>Responsibility for released products, ensuring robustness and lifecycle support</li><li>The ability to adapt development workflows based on customer and field feedback, proactively identifying and resolving inefficiencies in the pipeline</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, balancing technical depth with workflow and product understanding</li><li>Fluency in English (German is a plus)</li><li>Willingness to work on-site in Munich</li></ul>Nice-to-have:<ul><li>Experience in scale-up/start-up environments</li><li>Familiarity with EV charging, e-mobility, or industrial controllers</li></ul> Why us? This is an opportunity to:<ul><li>Lead a mission-critical function in a fast-growing, market-leading scale-up</li><li>Shape the engineering culture and processes of a company driving the global EV transition</li><li>Work at the intersection of software, hardware, and systems in a high-impact role</li><li>Be part of an international growth journey with major expansion plans in Europe, North America, and beyond</li></ul>

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