VP Engineering/ Technology Specialist

Technical Responsibilities:

• Work across Software Engineering, Data Science, and Client delivery teams to understand their goals and execute on the roadmap and vision for product development
• With the help of your team members, educate and execute on Software Engineering best practices for testing, deploying, and developing code.
• Encourage and enforce the right behaviors to ensure we continue to ship quickly without compromising production stability.
• Be ready to roll-up sleeves to assist your team when there are most urgent, difficult or critical developments to produce
• Drive the right technology choices (e.g. languages, libraries, frameworks)
• Lay out the technology architecture for both immediate and long term growth
• Take appropriate risks for technical debt to develop prototypes in a short timescale

Leadership responsibilities :

• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop in their roles by leveraging their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals.
• Hire the best Engineers to build out the Software development team
• Represent the Technology progress on the company vision to the Board/CXOs
• Participate with Core-team in making key Product and tech roadmap related decisions

Ideal candidate meets followingrRequirements:

• You have 7+ years of relevant engineering work experience, which includes at least 2+ hands-on technical management experience.
• You have experience leading technical team of at least 15 members across different technical operations and dream to be a CTO someday
• You have a strong technical background and are able to contribute to design and development across the software product lifecycle
• You are familiar with our tech stack (Python/Django/MySQL/Oracle/AngularJS/Linux)
• You are familiar with implementing organizational processes using tools like Asana/Git/Docs/Slack/etc.
• You've worked on large-scale SaaS products and can rapidly familiarize yourself with complex products.
• You have a strong focus on metrics and know how to measure the health of engineering teams.
• You believe in building both teams and products that scale.
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, and you’re committed to driving projects to completion.