The VP of Engineering will spearhead the next phase of our engineering development. The role manages a team of nearly a dozen engineers and others and works closely with leadership to align the team towards company goals, balancing infrastructure investments with business needs. The VP of Engineering is responsible for day-to-day delivery of the engineering team to ensure what we commit to gets done and building a great engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Recruiting, hiring, and building the Company engineering brand
- Manage team execution with ambitious but achievable goals, inspiring a sense of urgency and expecting high standards
- Build agility into the engineering team and culture to go after opportunities and shift priorities as needed
- Directly contribute to development efforts to start as the product and team are built out
- Work closely with product management, operations, and leadership to ensure engineering efforts and requirements are being utilized effectively
- Own and drive end-to-end feature development including technical design, frontend, backend and quality control
- Lead code reviews and troubleshoot systems issues
- Provide leadership and mentoring to junior engineers
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience successfully managing and building engineering teams with dozens of engineers
- Understands creating, building, and working with budgets
- Has been at a high-growth stage private/VC-backed tech company
- Has the technical expertise to command the respect of the team
- Has experience managing both remote and distributed teams
Our Tech Stack
- Our back-end is written in Ruby on Rails and we use PostgreSQL, CircleCI and Heroku Pipelines, as well as infrastructure such as AWS ec2 and s3
- Our front-end is JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3
- Our mobile front-end is an iOS app written in Flutter
- The team is managed in an agile fashion, we use Jira for roadmap management and story-driven development, and we deploy to production multiple times per week