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VP, Engineering
Software EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2016H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
63 days ago
Salary
$270K - $300K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishAndroidApolloAWSDynamo DBElastic SearchGraph QLI OSJava ScriptMy SQLNext.jsNode.jsPHPReactWord Press
Job Description
• You will be responsible for managing the hiring process as additional engineers join our team, with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and staffing and structuring your teams to meet business needs.
• Manage your team of leaders and help them to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, agile, high-growth environment.
• Make technology, infrastructure, architectural, and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale.
• Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within each team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, editorial, data science, and marketing teams to define strategy, execute on roadmaps, and remove roadblocks.
• Hold regular 1:1s, evaluate performance, and provide consistent productive feedback.
• Help engineers learn the skills needed to advance in their career.
• Work with engineers and product managers to iterate on and improve team processes and efficiency.
• Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team.
- Experience leading a team building a consumer product on both web and iOS/Android, evaluating architecture tradeoffs and helping team make technical decisions.
- Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team highly desired (but not required).
- Experience with some portion of our tech stack, and an appetite to learn the remainder: AWS, Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch.
- Enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- A strong desire to stay connected to the codebase—this can be a hands-on role if desired.
Benefits
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
- Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
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