Head of Engineering

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

OMNI is an online furniture brand that builds, curates, and delivers handcrafted office furniture and room setups to companies that care about creating attractive and productive work environments. We make quality furniture (rooted in the Danish design heritage) and inspiring office environments (inspired by major workplaces like Google and Airbnb) accessible to startups and medium-sized companies, who can subscribe to their dream office by way of just a few clicks.


Who would you be working for? 

Our client OMNI is a Furniture as a Service company, building a platform that makes sustainable, ergonomic, and attractive office furniture easily accessible to companies, enabling them to create better work environments and improve sustainability by keeping high-quality, lasting furniture in circulation.

You'll be joining a fast-growing startup company that's on a mission to build solutions for the future of work and change the furniture industry as we know it today.

The company is currently based in Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, where you can enjoy the water and a new prospering area with lots of cafés, restaurants, and an enormous rooftop!


What will you be doing?

You will be reporting to the CEO and working closely with the management team to develop and implement OMNI's platform architecture. You will know which tech stack is ideal to implement based on the leadership team's requirements, as well as the client needs to be solved. 

When joining a startup, time is of the essence. Therefore the ability to build prototypes fast while having scalability as a main part of your mindset is crucial to be successful. 

You will be part of building an ambitious, motivating, and fun environment.


Specifically, you will:

  • Establish the tech stack

  • Build out the platform architecture

  • Build the backend and implement the frontend web and mobile-based applications

  • Design custom solutions (creativity here will also be important)

  • Take the lead on product development

  • Take the operational role yourself

  • Develop management reporting on activities and KPIs

  • Manage the product development department


Requirements

  • Fluent in English

  • Software engineering background

  • Highly structured in your approach and able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously 

  • Eager to reach the highest level of quality

  • Excellent communication skills in order to express thoughts and correlate with peers across different departments 

  • Able to accept and react to feedback from different entities 

  • Eager to learn and adapt in a dynamic, fast-growing environment

  • Organized and able to create plans on a strategic level yet execute efficiently on a tactical level

  • Experience with building and shipping out B2B products


Bonus points

  • Extensive scaleup experience 

  • Background from senior leadership positions in startups/scaleups 

  • Experience building complex databases, solutions for fleet management, or blockchain solutions

  • Experience building and growing teams

  • At least once a day, having the ability to tell a bad joke and laugh at all of the other bad jokes in the office. 


The process:

1st interview with yTalent – digital

Cases – digital

2nd interview with OMNI – meeting on-site with the Founder, CEO.

3rd interview with OMNI and yTalent

Waiting

Hired, hopefully!


Timeline: 

In the best-case scenario, your first day will be the 1st of December. Our client looks for someone to start as soon as possible, yet willing to wait for the right one.


yTalent.dk is handling the recruitment process.

For more information or questions please contact us at Jakob@ytalent.dk or phone number 27832759

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
OMNI

OMNI provides Furniture as a Service for the future of work and makes beautiful, top-quality home office furniture accessible through subscription instead of ownership, enabling organizations and their employees to create better work environments, while improving sustainability by keeping great products in circulation. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, OMNI is providing a scalable and convenient solution for planning, implementing, and servicing subscription furniture for employees’ home offices. omnified.co @omnified

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