VP of Engineering Organization

We’re looking for an incredible VP of Engineering to build a world class engineering culture and team. You will and shape technology and product to deliver an unparalleled experience to users.

Responsibilities

• Oversee platform, applications, database, and technology infrastructure, ensuring you & your team effectively develop & deliver planned features on time and in an efficient manner.
• Directly contribute to building the platform, writing code and creating tech stack.
• Create and maintain processes that ensure high quality products can be delivered
• Manage & build technology & engineering organization. You will mentor and empower a diverse group of engineers by defining individual roles and responsibilities, generating buy-in, allocating resources, and managing team and individual progress and happiness.
• Be a key thought partner, informing strategic and product roadmaps, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing methods to streamline execution across the company.
• Drive and own key architectural and technical trade-off decisions that balance serving rapidly growing customer demand while building a scalable platform for the long term; ensure technology is versatile and set up to scale & enhance properly with future growth.

Requirements

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Up for the challenge of solving problems while working and building with intent in a fast paced environment.
• Not afraid to get their hands dirty, write code and fulfill the evolving role as manager of a small but fast growing team.
• Energized by the ambiguity and intensity inherent in a rapidly growing, early stage company, taking initiative to drive the team to achieve great things.
• Extremely comfortable working on fullstack applications, web and mobile, and databases.
• Experienced with synthesizing input from internal & external teams, and from within the tech organization, to make critical prioritization decisions.
• Very capable of designing, implementing, and revising development and testing processes that yield high quality products, deliver results on time, and maximize the team’s happiness.
• Experienced with, and enjoys, the unique challenges of marketplaces.
• Experienced with leading a team at a venture-backed company (or equivalent) through a product launch.
• Very capable of hiring, motivating, mentoring, managing, and assessing distributed teams.
• Very collaborative with other team members within & across teams and US/international cities, and an excellent communicator
• Extremely agile & flexible, since we will evolve a lot as a company.

• Worked for over 10 years in fast paced environments
• 4 years managing an engineering team (in-house and outsourced), preferably in an early stage startup environment.

Technical skills required:

• Full-stack technology expertise
• HTML/CSS front-end expertise
• React.js, Redux, JavaScript, NodeJS expertise
• Familiarity with React Native
• Familiarity working with databases like MySQL
• Experience with vendor system/application integration
• DevOps Experience

Skills: Application Integration, Architectural Services, CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Database Technology, Engineering Management, Establish Priorities, HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Internet Application, JavaScript, Leadership, Mentoring, MySQL, Node.js, Outsourcing, Problem Solving Skills, Product Planning, Product/Service Launch, Quality Assurance Methodology, React Native, React.js, Resource Management, Scalable System Development, Startup, System Integration (SI), Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Test Plan/Schedule, Testing, Time Management, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)