VP of Engineering

About the Role

We're looking for an incredible VP of Engineering to build a world class engineering culture and team. You will and shape technology and product to deliver an unparalleled experience to users. 

Responsibilities

• Oversee platform, applications, database, and technology infrastructure, ensuring you & your team effectively develop & deliver planned features on time and in an efficient manner.
• Directly contribute to building the platform, writing code and creating tech stack.
• Create and maintain processes that ensure high quality products can be delivered
• Manage & build technology & engineering organization. You will mentor and empower a diverse group of engineers by defining individual roles and responsibilities, generating buy-in, allocating resources, and managing team and individual progress and happiness.
• Be a key thought partner, informing strategic and product roadmaps, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing methods to streamline execution across the company.
• Drive and own key architectural and technical trade-off decisions that balance serving rapidly growing customer demand while building a scalable platform for the long term; ensure technology is versatile and set up to scale & enhance properly with future growth.

Requirements

We're looking for someone who is:

• Up for the challenge of solving problems while working and building with intent in a fast paced environment.
• Not afraid to get their hands dirty, write code and fulfill the evolving role as manager of a small but fast growing team.
• Energized by the ambiguity and intensity inherent in a rapidly growing, early stage company, taking initiative to drive the team to achieve great things.
• Extremely comfortable working on fullstack applications, web and mobile, and databases.
• Experienced with synthesizing input from internal & external teams, and from within the tech organization, to make critical prioritization decisions.
• Very capable of designing, implementing, and revising development and testing processes that yield high quality products, deliver results on time, and maximize the team's happiness.
• Experienced with, and enjoys, the unique challenges of marketplaces.
• Experienced with leading a team at a venture-backed company (or equivalent) through a product launch.
• Very capable of hiring, motivating, mentoring, managing, and assessing distributed teams.
• Very collaborative with other team members within & across teams and US/international cities, and an excellent communicator
• Extremely agile & flexible, since we will evolve a lot as a company.

Experience

• Worked for over 10 years in fast paced environments
• 4 years managing an engineering team (in-house and outsourced), preferably in an early stage startup environment.

Technical skills required:

• Full-stack technology expertise
• HTML/CSS front-end expertise
• React.js, Redux, JavaScript, NodeJS expertise
• Familiarity with React Native
• Familiarity working with databases like MySQL
• Experience with vendor system/application integration
• DevOps Experience