VP - Engineering - Internet/Online/Hospitality Startup

VP - Engineering

Job Description :

- Own end to end development and operations of high performance web and mobile applications

- Interface with business to define requirements, deliverables, and provide the necessary engineering expertise & support to ensure on-time delivery

- Lead/Manage a team of development and operations engineers

Major Responsibilities :

- Partner with the CTO to deliver on the product road-map

- Staffing, scheduling and performance management of all development and QA resources

- Continue to develop and improve delivery processes

- Commit to fostering a quality-focused development culture

- Lead the talent management effort for the technology team, including hiring, developing and retaining a best in class team

- Create, implement and manage processes and ensure best practices for software development, version control, unit testing etc. as well as build, test and release mechanisms

- Continuously seek to improve product and service quality

Desired Skills Include Knowledge of :

- Expert knowledge languages (Python, Go, etc.) web technologies (e.g. Javascript, CSS, HTML)

- Proven experience in architecture, design and delivery of data intensive applications

- Experience with modern web UI frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)

- Experience leading a QA / testing function and developing automation techniques to improve ongoing quality of delivery

- Expert level knowledge of Data Sources from RDBMS to NoSQL ( MySQL, Redis, Cassandra )

- Expertise in Linux

- Experience with architecting systems for AWS is a plus

- Understanding of continuous integrations and tools such as Docker, Jenkins

- Experience with web paradigms such as REST, Responsive Web Design, Test-driven Development (TDD), Dependency Injection etc.

Qualifications/ Experience :

- 8+ years of experience building software in roles of increasing responsibility and technical capability

- Must have experience in developing applications using multiple stacks

- Must have experienced scale in building web applications and SOA ( micro services ) based large scale setups

- Must have customer engagement experience and a strong customer bias and understand how to instill this customer-centric lens throughout an organization

- Must have prior experience in managing team of 30+ people comprising of engineers, leads, engineering managers, etc.

- Must possess traits of thriving to work in a start-up environment.

- Should be a hands-on technology person with eye for details and scale.

- Ability to Multi-Task in an ambiguous and very dynamic startup environment.

- Should have excellent prioritization and project management skills.