VP Engineering (Head of Dev)
August 1
🏢 In-office - Manhattan
Description
• Recruit, develop, lead, and inspire a focused & scrappy engineering team around you • Hands-on, willing to write code and lead by example • Ensure everything stays up and is able to improve performance • Manage code reviews and releases • Understand which tech debt can accumulate and which needs to be burned and when — and communicate the reasons why to other stakeholders • Shape the tech underpinning the product roadmap • A love of movies - regularly going to the movies, in theaters and wanting to talk about it and make the experience better • Skills to move into a CTO role - we are open to first time, hands-on CTO • The ability to see themselves as a problem-solver • Experience working in an early-stage startup and familiarity with the ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities that comes along with that • A bias for action • Experience leading engineering teams at a hyper-growth startup. You’ve built for scale and built an engineering team from 1 → ??? • Patience. So much patience! • Experience being business-minded & collaborative. Spent time working with others outside of Product & Engineering and understands the needs of the business to understand which trade-offs can and cannot be made • Humility & empathy. Mistakes are made (by you and others in the org), be open and honest about what happened and support teammates in moving forward • Experience working with AI/ML and experience working with blockchain technologies • Strong technology fundamentals and the ability to make high-impact decisions about long-term viability/scalability of technical solutions. Ability to communicate trade-offs to other stakeholders in the organization with varying degrees of technical fluency • Little to no ego • These aren’t hard requirements. If you’re an exceptional candidate, reach out!
Requirements
• 10+ years of proven professional experience working along the tech stack (backend, frontend, and mobile frameworks & database administration) • Proven professional dev ops experience (Kubernetes, CI/CD) • Proven professional Experience with AWS and GCP
Benefits
• Health insurance • Unlimited time off • Free movies
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