Havenly is looking for a VP of Engineering; a leader, someone who will oversee the engineering organization and help evolve the Havenly product and service, while keeping the team productive, happy, and engaged. Not only will you get to lead and inspire our team of world class engineers, but you will get to impact the growing community of Havenly users and designers through our product and platform. While you'll spend the majority of your time developing the team and product, our ideal candidate isn't afraid to (and looks forward to from time to time) roll up their sleeves and fix a bug or code a feature.
What You’ll Do:
- Help drive technical, architectural, and organizational decisions, to ensure that we build a scalable, efficient, and maintainable infrastructure.
- Implement and evolve the day to day engineering processes through best practices, coding guidelines, and design documents.
- Drive developer productivity and solve issues standing in their way.
- Provide technical leadership to the development team.
- Work closely with the CTO to set technical direction and translate business priorities into technical agenda.
- Regularly evaluate and provide feedback and mentorship to engineers.
- Optimize interactions between engineering and other functions, e.g product, design, marketing, operations, etc.
Who You Are:
- Experienced at leading an engineering team in both a cutting-edge large-scale tech company and in a start-up. Consumer tech experience preferred.
- An experienced engineer and big brain technical resource. You know how to design complex scaleable systems and how to design them correctly.
- An engineer at heart with a strong background as an individual contributor to development projects.
- A strong leader and a great communicator, with a welcoming and supportive personality.
- An inspiring motivator, supporter, and quarterback for the team.
- Not afraid to get dirty/into the weeds with the team.
Requirements
What You’ll Bring:
- Progressive engineering leadership experience.
- Senior level Software Engineering experience.
- Experience growing and retaining teams that are continuously shipping product.
- Solid understanding and experience in the Agile methodology, hands-on management of agile, architecture, QA, operations, and support.
- Advanced understanding of cloud-based development methodologies and state fo the art design patterns.
- Understanding and experience of building highly scalable, highly available systems.
- Experience in e-commerce or another high availability, scalable industry.
- Strong people management skills, proven success in creating and motivating a strong performing engineering team.
- Past success creating the process that defines a high-quality and enjoyable engineering culture.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science.
Benefits
What we offer:
- A challenging opportunity, and a great team to work beside.
- A data driven environment where your insights and expertise will be valued.
- An environment where you can move fast, work hard, see results, and feel your impact.
- An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a successful startup.
- Salary, benefits, and design services - Have a room that needs some love? We got you!
At Havenly we hire people who exhibit gumption, act like owners, outperform, and are always playful. If this sounds like a great fit for you, and a challenge you're ready to run with, we want to hear from you.