Social Discovery Group
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 20 years
🌍 Social Impact
📱 Media
Social Impact • Media • Entertainment
Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies, focused on solving the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection through digital reality. With 500 million users across 150 countries, the group boasts over 60 global communication and entertainment platforms. Employing a team of 1200 professionals, the company organizes events that unite a global community of professionals and provides career opportunities for individuals seeking ambitious challenges.
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Social Discovery Group
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 20 years
🌍 Social Impact
📱 Media
Social Impact • Media • Entertainment
Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies, focused on solving the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection through digital reality. With 500 million users across 150 countries, the group boasts over 60 global communication and entertainment platforms. Employing a team of 1200 professionals, the company organizes events that unite a global community of professionals and provides career opportunities for individuals seeking ambitious challenges.
📋 Description
• Accelerate Time-to-Market (TTM) • Audit the current software development lifecycle (SDLC) to identify and eliminate bottlenecks • Design and implement engineering and project frameworks to reduce delivery cycles • Ensure predictable and transparent feature delivery without compromising quality • Act as the primary technical partner for the product organization (CPO, PMs, Designers) • Take ownership of the business backlog from a technical execution standpoint • Align engineering efforts and resource allocation directly with business and product goals • Set up, scale, and manage robust SDLC processes • Introduce and enforce effective IT project management frameworks (Agile, Scrum, etc.) tailored to the product's needs • Establish a single source of truth for delivery status, risks, and timelines • Synchronize efforts across engineering, product, and design teams • Resolve dependencies and blockers in the delivery pipeline • Build structured execution systems rather than relying on ad-hoc fixes • Validate product requirements against technical feasibility and system constraints • Provide reasoned, data-driven pushback to the product team and stakeholders when expectations are unrealistic • Present technical strategies, progress, and risks clearly to C-level executives
🎯 Requirements
• Deep expertise in SDLC setup and optimization • Advanced IT project management and Delivery Management • Strong grasp of various project frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc.) • Ability to track, measure, and improve the TTM metric • Deep understanding of the product approach and product creation/development lifecycles • Knowledge of product analytics to support data-driven engineering decisions • Ability to manage and prioritize a business backlog from an engineering perspective • Strong architectural understanding to evaluate the feasibility of product requests • Ability to map business requirements to technical execution plans • Proven expertisee in managing modern tech stack High load (distributed architecture, microservices, event driven, syn/async, k8s, CI/CD • Strong software development background • Fluent Russian and English
🏖️ Benefits
• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time; • Vacation 28 calendar days per year; • 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave; • Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company; • 50% payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings; • Corporate discount for English lessons; • Health benefits. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children); • Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years; • Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for our merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.
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