Hands-on technical servant-leader who takes responsibility for the capabilities of the whole organization and defines the strategic technical direction. Leads delivery on mission-critical projects. Create processes and strategies to enable engineering to effectively execute long-term product goals. Define the framework for growth and create a culture of continuous improvement.
Daily goals:
- Spend 50% of your time working on projects
- Own technical decisions with high risk and low reversibility
- Contribute to best practices in the wider engineering industry
- Design team structures to autonomously solve complex multidisciplinary issues
- Leverage multi-year vision to create a long-term technical strategy
- Identify and mentor emerging leaders within the engineering team
- Communicate business objectives to your team with clarity
Must-haves:
- Proven track record of leading technical teams to deliver high-impact projects
- Public cloud architecture (Azure, AWS or GCP)
- Team structure and delivery methodologies
- Performance optimization strategies for high-volume, low-latency web applications
- Full-stack testing patterns
- Continuous integration / deployment strategies
- Front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular or Svelte etc.)
- Nodejs or Express
Nice to have:
- Google Cloud Platform
- Terraform
- Cloud security vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies
- Query performance and data synchronization optimization strategies
- Contributes to the development of best practices in the wider engineering industry