Head of Engineering

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 StackHawk’s leadership team is seeking an Engineering leader to develop and grow the StackHawk engineering function. This role is all about bringing your stamp to StackHawk, helping our engineering team scale and maintain high delivery velocity as the team grows. StackHawk is a Product lead development organization and as such you’ll work closely with the product team to help define the roadmap and deliverables to customers all while ensuring quality and uptime of the StackHawk product suite. You’ll be a key leader of a growing team that will revolutionize application security by reducing complexity, providing actionable recommendations, and empowering software engineers to take control of their application security. This early position will be instrumental in shaping engineering culture and promoting StackHawk’s goal of identifying and remediating app vulnerabilities in the CI/CD pipeline. You’ll be the decision maker for technology and process direction. This position will also have board-facing exposure reporting on the progress and future of StackHawk Engineering.  If you enjoy the challenge of designing and creating all new infrastructure and product features, this is the role for you.

 

What You’ll Do:

  • Represent the Engineering function at an executive level
  • Leading the Engineering team through management and mentorship
  • Leading recruitment activities for the Engineering team
  • Collaborate with the Product organization on roadmap execution and predictable delivery
  • Developing standards and procedures to ensure quality and uptime standards are met and are consistent
  • Preparing and optimizing budgets
  • Work with stakeholders, making key technology decisions
  • Help set standards and coding practices for the engineering teams.
  • Design and be accountable for and report on success KPIs for the Engineering organization
  • We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do.

 

About You:

  • 5+ years of leading Engineering teams preferably in a SaaS environment
  • 5+ years of coaching and organizing engineering, quality, and DevOps teams 
  • Experience with cross-functional delivery teams and scaled agile practices
  • Strong organizational leadership skills
  • Experience in organizing and leading cross-functional teams in scaled agile fashion
  • Extensive experience in working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to recruit, grow and retain quality teams
  • Strong knowledge of data structures and SaaS platform delivery models
  • Obsessive about automation.
  • Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals
  • Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in
  • Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others
  • Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active
  • Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals. Knows that security is a supporting function of any business and the difference between binary security and scale security


The Goods:

  • Competitive Compensation: Earn a competitive salary and get an equity stake in the company that we are building together. Phone reimbursement, paid parking, and commuter benefits included.
  • Solid Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance 100% paid for employees and dependents. Other benefits include life insurance, AD&D, and 401K.
  • Time to Recharge Encouraged: Take what you need vacation plus ten paid holidays! Unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
  • Fun Team and Perks: We do great work and have fun doing it! Our office comes equipped with hardware of your choice, daily breakfast and snacks, coffee, happy hours, on-site gym, and a fun team to collaborate with.
  • Place Where Your Work Matters and You Grow: As a seed stage company, your work shapes the product that we are building. Nothing beats arriving at work every day knowing that your work deeply matters, and there is no better opportunity to grow in your career.


StackHawk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

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StackHawk was started in Denver Colorado and transitioned to a fully remote company post COVID and we plan on staying remote. Of course, we also understand that in-person interaction is important for all of us as individuals and as a company. So we also organize a few company events year-round.

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