Vice President, Engineering
Engine Media is looking for a full-time VP, Engineering to join our team.
About Engine Media
Engine Media is a multi-platform media group leading the charge in esports, news streaming, and gaming. The merger of Torque Esports, Frankly Media, and WinView Games brings together a unique combination of esports content, streaming technology, gaming platforms, data analytics and intellectual property.
To date, the combined companies have connectivity into hundreds of millions of homes with clients comprised of more than 1,200 television, print, and radio brands including CNN, ESPN, Discovery / Eurosport, Fox, Vice, Newsweek, and Cumulus; and dozens of gaming and technology companies including EA, Activision, Blizzard, Take2Interactive, Microsoft, Google, Twitch and Ubisoft. The company is headquartered in New York with offices in Atlanta, Toronto and Bangalore.
What You Get To Do...
The VP, Engineering will be given the opportunity to join a growing product engineering team focused on delivering competitive gaming (UMGGaming.com, UMG.tv), fan engagement (WinView), and CMS/web platforms. You will be a key technology leader and hands-on contributor as Engine Media embarks on major re-architecture / redesigns across our products to bring new offerings to market as well as to modernize and consolidate legacy platforms.
What We Need From You...
- Responsible for the definition, architectural design, hands-on development as well as successful and timely delivery of features in Engine Media's competitive gaming, fan engagement, and CMS/web platforms
- Leadership of team including mentoring, coaching, career development, and performance management
- Optimization of an iterative development process including code/build tools, documentation, team/peer reviews, and DevOps automation tools to achieve the highest quality, performance, scalability, stability, security, and cost management
- Collaborating with our product management team to co-lead iteration and sprint planning meetings, providing estimates, risks, and solutions/alternatives
- Leadership of a 24x7 on-call rotation to monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production issues and integrations as necessary
Our Ideal Candidate Has...
- 15+ years relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Technical expertise with:
- System architecture methods and deliverables such as documentation and diagrams.
- Service-oriented Architecture and RESTful API's.
- Back-end technologies such as NodeJS, Python, Golang services, PHP/Laravel
- Front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, Ajax/XHR, browser caching/security (CORS), responsive web, React/Vue, Bootstrap, SPA, PWA, VideoJS
- Database/Caching systems such as SQL/RDBMS, NoSQL (mongo), Redis/memcache
- Source/Build/Packaging/deployment tools such as NPM, webpack, babel, git, travis
- Unit testing frameworks such as: PHPUnit, Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.
- AWS, CDN's, server performance, stability, security, and cost management
- Team leadership techniques including providing mentoring, coaching and dealing with challenging staffing situations
- Agile and sprint processes, including planning and estimation tools ranging from story points all the way up to major project plans.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a collaborative focus
- Excellent ability to work independently and take ownership and initiative on tasks
- Excellent organization and time-management skills; Delivers successfully on commitments
- Excellent decision making and troubleshooting skills
- Strong ability to learn new skills while on the job
What We Think is Nice to Have...
- Familiarity with video streaming technologies (such as HLS) and video players (JW, VideoJS, Brightcove, Ooyala, Theo Player)
- Experience with online advertising tech (Google Ad Manager / GAM / DFP, VAST/VPAID, DSPs) and analytics (Google Analytics, GTM, Optimize)
- Experience with WordPress or other similar Content Management Systems (CMS), including custom WordPress theme/plugin development.