Head of Engineering (m/f/d)
You own the architecture, the team and the operations of NYBA OS, the platform that turns a promoter's ticket data into campaigns on Meta, Google and TikTok without a human in the loop.
NYBA is the Revenue OS for live entertainment. The platform forecasts ticket demand for every show, runs campaigns on every channel that sells tickets, and measures every euro against verified ticket sales from the ticketing system. 75M+ tickets sold, 1,200+ events a year and clients such as Live Nation, Cirque du Soleil and BBC Earth.
Please note: our engineering team works in English. German is a plus, not a requirement. You should be based in the EU and able to spend regular time with the team in Frankfurt.
Your role
NYBA is moving from a service company to a product company: promoters book campaigns in their ticketing dashboard, and NYBA OS builds, launches, measures and bills them automatically. The engineering team is being built for exactly that. As Head of Engineering you set the architecture, hire and lead the engineers for backend, data, frontend and QA, run code reviews and keep the platform reliable at thousands of campaigns a day. You report directly to the founder.
What you will do
- Own the architecture of NYBA OS: the campaign build engine for Meta, Google and TikTok, payments and ledger, the partner API and the data warehouse
- Hire and lead a team of five to seven engineers and set the engineering standards: reviews, testing, releases, on-call
- Move the core from no-code and AI-assisted prototypes into a maintainable, tested codebase
- Design the partner API and the Promote integration that ticketing platforms embed in their dashboards
- Make reliability measurable: time to live under 24 hours, 50 campaigns in a row without a visible error
- Decide build versus buy for infrastructure, AI models and tooling
- Work with the founder and the Head of Product on the roadmap and ship it in the agreed order
- Keep security, data protection and infrastructure cost under control as volume grows
What you bring
- 8+ years in software engineering, at least 3 of them leading engineers
- You have built and run a production SaaS or marketplace backend at scale
- Deep experience with TypeScript or Python, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure such as AWS, and CI/CD
- Hands-on with third-party ad or payment APIs such as Meta, Google, TikTok and Stripe, or comparable integrations
- You design systems for automation first: queues, idempotency, retries, observability
- You review code yourself and still enjoy writing it
- Pragmatic about AI-assisted development: you use it daily and you know its limits
- Fluent English; German is a plus
- Based in the EU, with regular time in Frankfurt
Bonus points
- Experience with Supabase or with codebases that started in AI-assisted or no-code tools
- Ad-tech or marketing automation background
- Experience with data pipelines and attribution
- You have scaled a team from two to ten engineers
- Live entertainment or ticketing experience
What to expect
- Report directly to the founder and own engineering end to end
- A greenfield mandate with a running business and real customers behind it
- Market-rate fixed salary and a share in NYBA's success
- Remote within the EU, with regular team days in Frankfurt
- Modern AI infrastructure and demanding technical challenges
- International clients such as Live Nation, Cirque du Soleil and BBC Earth
- Flat hierarchies and fast decisions
- Flexible hours, extra holiday days, training and team events
How to apply
Send your CV and a few lines about yourself and your experience to hr@nyba.group. We look forward to hearing from you.