Vice President of Engineering, Moonfare
4 days a week in office
Global private equity investment platform
Job no longer available
Global private equity investment platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To lead a new era for private equity investing and open the door to higher returns for more people.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles
- Experience working in high-growth, product-led technology companies
- Proven track record of leading complex re-platforming or large-scale architectural transformation projects
- Deep understanding of software architecture, cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS), security, and DevOps best practices
- Proven ability to build and scale high-performing engineering teams and systems
- Strong collaboration skills with experience working closely with product, design, and commercial teams
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
- Ability to balance hands-on technical depth with strategic thinking and long-term planning
- Passion for building impactful technology and mentoring future leaders
- Experience managing managers and aligning teams across multiple locations
- Comfortable working in a hybrid environment (4 days per week in-office in Berlin or London)
What the job involves
- As VP Engineering, you will be responsible for driving the technical vision, delivery, and operational excellence of Moonfare’s core platform
- Reporting directly to the CEO, you will lead and scale a high-performing engineering organisation, creating the systems and culture needed to support rapid innovation as Moonfare continues to grow
- A key focus will be leading Moonfare’s re-platforming initiative. In parallel, you'll play a key role in preparing the organisation for future AI-powered enhancements to engineering productivity
- This is a high-impact role with visibility at the executive level. You will play an instrumental part in shaping the future of Moonfare’s technology, introducing AI into development processes, and helping define a lean, modern engineering culture
- You will also work closely with the CEO and other senior leaders on company-wide initiatives
- Define and evolve Moonfare’s engineering strategy in line with business goals and product vision
- Lead the re-platforming of Moonfare’s core platform, collaborating closely with Security and Infrastructure leadership to ensure timely, secure, and scalable execution
- Scale a diverse and distributed engineering team, ensuring strong performance, alignment, and career development
- Champion a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration across engineering, product, and design
- Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, tooling, and architecture to support high-quality product delivery
- Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to align on roadmap priorities and ensure high-impact execution
- Set and monitor key engineering KPIs and targets related to delivery velocity, quality, uptime, and team engagement
- Serve as a key technical advisor across the business and represent engineering in strategic discussions with executive stakeholders and external partners
Our take
Many high-level investment opportunities are solely reserved for financial institutions. This means that top-tier equity funds are completely out of reach for most private investors. Moonfare solves this problem by giving individuals access to institution-level investing.
Moonfare's platform allows investors to participate in funding rounds offered by some of the biggest investing companies, including The Carlyle Group and Tiger Global. The company offers investment opportunities with investment minimums as low as €50,000, which is about 100x less than the traditional minimum. So, while not everyone can afford to make investments through the company, a much larger pool of people have the ability to enter private markets.
Moonfare is headed up by an impressive team of KKR, BlackRock, Amazon and J.P. Morgan alums, which adds significant credibility to its product. The platform has also grown considerably since launching and more recently partnered with Fundcraft to enhance its digital infrastructure, automate fund administration, KYC, and capital call processes. This integration enables eligible investors to register and invest directly online in minutes, an exciting feat which will surely catch the eye of many investors.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$15m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $217m
Company benefits
- Attractive compensation: We benchmark our compensation against other Fintechs and aim to pay at the 75th percentile.
- Relax and Recharge: You start your career at Moonfare with 25 vacation days and earn one extra day per year of tenure. Additionally, we have company-wide days off on different occasions.
- Growth budgets: Each full-time employee receives a minimum of €1,500 growth budget/ year that can be used for seminars, coaching, certification or other things that fosters your growth.
- Free daily lunches: On top of snacks, fruits, cereals and drinks, we offer lunch in our Berlin office and generous lunch budgets in our other offices.
- Mental health support: Our mental health platform nilo.health gives all employees access to online counseling, daily meditations and mindfulness workshops.
- Other benefits: We also offer a variety of other benefits like company parties and events, a referral bonus of €2,000, spontaneous company-wide vacation and company merch.
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Dr Steffen Pauls
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Previously worked as a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, and as Managing Director & Head of Germany at KKR. Has founded companies such as MOMENTAR and 7 Global Capital.
Alexander Argyros
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Co-founder of BlueLayer. Previously co-founded Somuchmore where they served as the Managing Director. They have also spent time at KKR and J.P. Morgan as an Associate.
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