Vice President Of Engineering

We're currently seeking a VP of Engineering to help us expand and lead our Engineering team. A great candidate for this role is a strong people manager who is passionate about designing and scaling a successful engineering organization that meets the changing needs of customers and our business. The person in this role will be an integral part of the senior leadership team, partnering with others on that team to translate our company vision and strategy into engineering strategies that enable us to achieve our purpose at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow our Engineering organization: You’ll expand, uplevel, and manage engineers, including those embedded on other teams, ensuring we have the key roles needed to execute our roadmap. You’ll foster a culture aligned with our values within Engineering and across teams. You’ll help us recruit and retain top talent to help us scale our teams. You’ll do all this by being a thought leader who can earn respect and trust and help grow even our most senior engineers.
• Provide Strategic and Operational Leadership: You’ll work closely with our senior leadership team to translate our company vision and strategy into a strategy and vision for the Engineering function. You’ll track and manage key KPIs to objectively assess engineering’s progress against our roadmap, pivoting as needed, and sharing learnings along the way. To do this you’ll build a deep understanding of our product, customer experience, and the drivers of revenue and user growth.
• Ensure we ship at high velocity and with high quality: You’ll build systems and processes that enable our engineers to consistently deliver multiple concurrent projects, on time, with high quality, and within a budget. You’ll ensure prompt responses to urgent issues that are customer and revenue impact. You’ll be responsible for leading our engineering team in ensuring our services are reliable up and running. You’ll partner closely with our Software Architect to employ industry best practices to drive innovation, address technical debt, advance system architecture and improve our processes while still meeting our overall product and business objectives.

Qualifications

• Previous working experience in software design and developing customer-orientated platforms.
• Strong organizational leadership skills.
• Preferably have more than 2 years of experiences in the similar position.
• Extensive experience in working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to develop quality teams.