Job Description:
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Title: VP of Engineering / Hot startup
Location: Palo Alto, CA 94306
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: Open and flexible depending on experience
Bonus Eligible: Yes
Benefits: World-Class benefits package
Come join one of the fastest growing companies in the Bay Area in this exciting newly created position due to growth. They have experienced dramatic revenue increases even in this down economy. This experienced management team always builds a tremendous corporate culture and the company experiences almost 0% turnover.
We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, and super smart VP of Engineering to help build out, mentor, and manage our development team. Youll be reporting to the CTO/Co-founder, working with a spectacular team, learning a ton, and having loads of fun while doing it. Were looking for a candidate who is up to the challenge of scaling a product and team lightning quick. Youll be the CTOs partner in helping to hire and grow a highly productive engineering organization.
Role:
Recruit world-class engineering, operations and quality assurance talent to drive initiatives and produce high quality products.
Oversee development and operations at The company, including: development, deployment, optimizations, maintenance, and scale
Partner with product teams to improve development and product speed by helping to implement agile processes and workflows
Provide technical guidance and leadership to the Engineering team: mentor junior and senior managers, work with key architects to help administer and encourage best practices, improve infrastructure and architecture, and provide leadership to help set team goals for performance and technical excellence
Ensure stable deployment, maintenance, and scalability while closely managing relationship between developers and operations
Anticipate future growth needs and work with the team to address them
Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization.
Drive technical excellence and innovation in the team while continuing to hold the team to a high standard of development and foster entrepreneurship and ownership
Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years in an engineering management position (Sr. Manager, Director, Sr. Director, VP)
Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
Proven leadership skills
Ruby on Rails expertise with large-scale projects
Experience with Scrum or Agile methods
Demonstrated ability to hire and build engineering teams
Experience building and maintaining a large-scale service
Excellent people skills, both technical and non-technical
Passion for web technologies
Experience with managing Systems Operations a plus
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Passionate. Driven. High achiever - You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
Please forward resumes and I will call qualified candidates immediately to tell them more about this opportunity.
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