About the Role
We're looking for an incredible VP of Engineering to join, shape technology & product and deliver an unparalleled experience to our users. The VP of Engineering will support mission by building a world class engineering culture and team, collaborating to shape our technology & product roadmap, building relationships with other teams, and championing our vision for building the best platform for our users.
Currently, we have a small team of 5 in-house/ outsourced resources. Today's overall processes are manageable but subject to scale up fast with a number of enhanced features, architecture, and broader initiatives we want to roll out in the near future.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee platform, applications, data case, and technology infrastructure, ensuring you & your team effectively develop & deliver planned features on time and in an efficient manner.
- Directly contribute to building our company's platform, you'll also be writing code and creating tech stack.
- Create and maintain processes that ensure high quality products can be delivered while aligned with our overall business priorities.
- 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 our 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:Base of $200-250k
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.
- Known for shipping products and features lightning fast without being told exactly what to do.
- Extremely comfortable working on fullstack applications, web and mobile, and databases.
- Worked for over 10 years in fast paced environments and spent over 4 years managing an engineering team (in-house and outsourced), preferably in an early stage startup environment.
- 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.
Additionally, here are the 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
And overall, we're looking for team players with passion, authenticity, empathy, perseverance, integrity, with a "can-do" positive attitude.