VP Software Engineering

🕒 March 18

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Gener8

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11 - 50 employees

💰 Non Equity Assistance on 2022-01

We believe that people should be able to control and earn from their own data.

📋 Description

• Mentoring and coaching the senior and lead engineers to grow their technical and soft skills. • Driving observability, reliability, stability and scalability as concepts within the organisation and establishing the metrics, SLAs and OKRs that ensure they’re achieved. • Audit ways of working, technical capabilities, looking for optimisations or overhauls if necessary and leading improvement programmes. • Defining the new roles that will enable the team to execute even faster and more effectively, as well as running the hiring process, from application, offer to onboarding. • Shaping the product and engineering roadmap and seeing initiatives through from conception to delivery while ensuring engineering capacity, sequencing, trade-offs and cross-team alignment are managed at an organisational level. • Owning and evolving the engineering org structure, career framework and performance management processes. • Partnering with the CTO and leadership team on budgeting, headcount planning and long-term technical investments. • Overseeing and helping define the technical architecture at a strategic level, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term platform evolution. • Providing technical leadership and able to be hands on and in the detail when needed. • Line management, mentoring and coaching the other engineers • Running the hiring process for new engineers. • Reviewing other engineer’s code, making suggestions and using them as teaching opportunities for more advanced techniques. • Spotting the gaps in technical capabilities or resources and filling them at the right time. • Working closely with the product, marketing and sales teams to bring their visions to life while balancing innovation, delivery velocity, technical debt and platform sustainability. • Owning engineering delivery performance: throughput, predictability, quality and operational excellence. • Championing a strong engineering culture, values and ways of working as the organisation scales.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years experience as a software engineer working with native mobile or web technologies • 3+ years experience in an engineering leadership role with line management responsibilities • Previous experience at a growing startup • Track record of delivering high quality products with a measurable impact on the business • Experience building engaged and high performing teams • Experience interviewing engineers and assessing technical tasks for applicants • Experience mentoring and helping level up other engineers • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills • British citizenship or a pre-existing right to work in the UK

🏖️ Benefits

• 🚀 Part of a fast growing company where you will have real responsibility and autonomy • 📈 Competitive Salary + share options, so that you have a slice of the company and share in our success • 🏡 WFH 3 days per week • 🏝️ 32 days of holiday • 💻 Your choice of computer hardware • 💰 Annual training and conference budget • ⛳️ Regular team days out