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Hazelcast

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics

Hazelcast is a leading real-time data platform uniquely combining a fast data store and distributed compute engine into one system. It provides solutions for stream processing, event-driven architectures, and real-time AI/ML automation. The platform is well-suited for enterprise architectures and cloud-agnostic deployments, offering high performance, resilience, and scale. Hazelcast serves various industries such as financial services, e-commerce, and healthcare, helping organizations modernize their data architecture, improve payment processing, and enhance fraud detection. The company also integrates with Apache Kafka and Redis for improved data processing capabilities.

📋 Description

• Define and champion a multi-year technology strategy and architectural vision aligned with business objectives and revenue growth • Collaborate with Product Management on product strategy, roadmap prioritization, technical direction, packaging, commercial value, and delivery • Own end-to-end engineering delivery against the product roadmap using agile methodologies • Maintain and elevate platform quality, performance, security, and resilience • Provide executive oversight of distributed systems, high-performance Java, concurrency, streaming, and data structures • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies • Manage the engineering budget, technology investment ROI, and resource allocation • Steward Hazelcast’s open-source core and balance open-source community expectations with commercial customer needs • Advocate for Hazelcast within open-source and real-time data ecosystems and build strategic partnerships • Convert user feedback into engineering priorities • Maintain reliability across Hazelcast’s multi-language client ecosystem and seamless upgrades • Champion developer and operator experience, documentation, release clarity, and community engagement • Lead and manage a distributed global engineering team • Develop organisational structure, headcount planning, leadership bench, succession plans, and career paths • Coach and develop engineering directors and managers • Ensure team alignment, empowerment, feedback, and performance management • Partner with the CEO and C-level executives on engineering performance, risks, and opportunities • Sponsor key enterprise accounts and participate in high-stakes C-level prospect meetings with Sales • Inspire advanced developers globally and foster contributions to open-source projects

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in software engineering • At least 7+ years operating at VP, SVP, or CTO level • Preferably experience in a B2B enterprise software or platform company • Experience fostering a product-led culture and driving commercial results through engineering excellence • Ability to manage large departmental budgets and optimize engineering spend • Ability to translate complex technical decisions into business value for executive stakeholders • Deep understanding of complex architectures, concurrent and distributed systems, high-performance compute, and real-time data architectures • Expertise balancing open-source community expectations with enterprise requirements • Experience with public API discipline, documentation standards, governance, and global developer/operator communities • Track record scaling and leading a geographically distributed international engineering organisation • Technical foundation in Java, concurrency, networking, data streaming, SQL, distributed data stores, and data grids • Ability to engage deeply with Principal Engineers and Architects on complex technical designs • Expertise in modern agile methodologies and continuous delivery pipelines • Customer-centric approach and comfort working in an open-kitchen, GTM-aligned environment • Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills • Ability to influence across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline is listed as preferred; Master's or equivalent advanced degree preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays + Quarterly Wellbeing Days • Group Company Pension Plan • Private Medical Insurance • Private Dental Insurance • Life Insurance • EAP (Employee Assistance Program)