VP of Engineering

ABOUT US

We are building a future where every student on the planet can access, enjoy, and benefit from the highest quality education. Since founding Knowunity straight out of high school in 2020, we've been committed to revolutionising how students learn.

Millions of students already use our AI learning companion weekly. We just raised €27m from strong Investors - one of Europe’s largest education rounds in the past years. The AI learning market is at an inflection point, finally enabling true personalisation at scale, and we're determined to build the first AI learning unicorn in this space.

You will join a truly driven team of 60 hands-on builders serving 1 billion students worldwide. If we execute on our product vision, you will have built something that transforms education globally.

This is your chance to be part of building a generational company.

YOUR MISSION

Knowunity is on a mission to become the #1 AI learning companion for 1 billion students. We're looking for an exceptional VP Engineering to help us make Knowunity one of Europe’s fastest, highest-quality shipping tech organizations. You define and implement the company’s technology roadmap aligned with business growth and market expansion together with the founders. You lead by example with hands-on technical contributions (especially in AI), while building the operating system that drives delivery discipline, shortens release cycles, motivates engineers, sets visible milestones, and clear accountability across a team of 20-30 strong engineering colleagues.

What success looks like:

• Significantly improve our engineering operating cadence: planning, release rhythm, on-call, incident management, postmortems…

• Set and drive the technology roadmap aligned to product and growth goals together with the Leadership Team.

• Raise quality: define performance, and reliability with measurable SLOs.

• Build and mentor a high-performing team; hire and develop top notch engineers.

• Ensure a transparent release rhythm and metrics to measure performance, shipped features, quality and delivery timelines.

• Partner closely with Product and Design to ensure strategy and execution stay tightly aligned.

• Ship core product flows that impact millions of students daily.

YOUR STORY

Your mindset

You’re the type of person who:

• Builds with urgency and care - you love moving fast without cutting corners, and you take pride in getting things shipped

• Thinks product-first - you see code as a means to serve the user, not as an end in itself

• Owns outcomes, not just tasks - you don’t wait for perfect specs or process; you figure out what’s needed and make it happen

• Loves simplicity whether it's UX or code, you cut complexity and focus on what delivers value

• Sets high bars and help teams meet them.

• Leverages AI - as a force multiplier in everything you do

• Values excellence over comfort mediocrity isn’t in your vocabulary

Your track record

Proven track record in hypergrowth environments, ideally consumer-facing products. Experience shipping at scale, you love to actually build!

• Entrepreneurial mindset: Former founder or early team member who thrives in ambiguity, makes decisive calls, and is driven by outcomes rather than process.

• Hands-on tech leader: Deep technical expertise, still enjoys coding and building. Comfortable splitting time between org leadership and code.

• Communication: Strong communicator who can align, develop & motivate teams with clarity and confidence.

Must-Haves

• Experience hiring and motivating engineering teams in high-growth environments.

• Strong interest in applying AI to real-world use cases, with experience embedding AI into products.

• Fluent English

• Ready to work from our Berlin office 4 days/week (with some flexibility!)

Our Tech Stack

Our app is written in Flutter with Riverpod. Our Golang backend is powered by PostgreSQL and hosted on AWS with Kubernetes. Our AI stack consists of several LLM providers (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Mistral), custom routing engines, and fine-tuned models. Our data stack consists of BigQuery and dbt.

WHAT WE OFFER

Not for everyone, everything for the right ones.

• Competitive compensation and equity: We’re building Knowunity to dominate the global AI learning market. Your compensation package includes competitive salary paired with meaningful equity in a company with genuine unicorn potential. Team members who help us reach that goal will be rewarded accordingly.

• Elite team and true ownership: You’ll work alongside 60 exceptional people who match your ambition within a flat hierarchy - direct access to founders and leadership without bureaucratic middle layers. You'll own entire areas from conception to delivery with real decision-making authority.

• Meaningful impact at scale: Your work will have immediate, measurable impact on education globally and directly improves how millions of students learn.

• Benefits: 28 days annual leave +1 extra day per year with Knowunity, 40 days work from anywhere, personal development budget, mental health support via Nilo, Urban Sports Club, monthly become1 retail vouchers, team and company events

We’re not here to coast - we are building something exceptional. We’re a lean team of ambitious people who push hard, move fast, and constantly raise the bar. The real perk is not standard benefits - it’s joining 60 amazing people who challenge you to level up daily. If you’re hungry, thrive under pressure and ready to go the extra mile, this is where you will accelerate your career faster than anywhere else.

Memberships: Urban Sports Club, nilo

Discounts: Corporate benefits, FutureBens, Plantclub

Events: Team events, company events, sports & wellbeing events

Development: Personal development budget, hackathons

Office: Breakfast, Dinner 2x a week, fruits & snacks, coffee, tea & soft drinks, dog friendly

Remote: Hybrid work, travel budget, team workations

HOW TO APPLY

Ready to help build the AI learning unicorn?

Click “Apply for this job” and submit your CV and LinkedIn profile.

We encourage applications from exceptional talent regardless of traditional background requirements.

At Knowunity, we actively foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that ensures equal opportunity for all qualified applicants, regardless of nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or marital status. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.