DevSelect
Vice President of Software Engineering
DevSelect, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Title: VP Of Software Engineering
Location: Seattle, WA - Remote
Openings: 1
Type: Full Time Hire
Job Description
The CLIENT
is searching for a senior technology leader for the role of [ Vice President] of Software Engineering (VPE)
to manage our agile team of SDEs, SREs, SDETs and UATs. In this role you will implement and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-based software solutions, identify, and execute customer integration solutions, and streamline the team’s software delivery tools and processes. A successful candidate will have both the experience and the passion for leading by example –managing up, down, and laterally.
Job Responsibilities
Live and breathe a DevOps culture managing teams of Senior SDEs and SREs that work hand-in-hand with you to deliver modern, scalable, SaaS software across multiple cloud providers.
Be ultimately responsible for the execution of the company’s software development roadmap for key products.
Build the engineering organization from existing and new employees and contractors to create the team with which you can best succeed at delivering on our business goals.
Manage your engineering team to deliver high quality software product, meet internal and external goals of the organization.
Foster a healthy culture of happy, productive, autonomous, team-oriented software engineers that respect one another and exhibit pride in software craftsmanship and shipping frequently.
Ensure engineering organization is properly staffed, tooled, and processed.
Define and execute on your department’s quarterly objectives in a measurable, repeatable way.
Collaborate with other VPs and senior management in defining higher-level corporate objectives.
Work with Information Technology on cloud and infrastructure needs.
Work with product owners to understand internal and external requirements and help the team design solutions to satisfy these.
Co-own relationships with vendors, cloud providers, and other third-party service providers.
Help vet, compare, assess, and select third-party technology providers and vendors.
Experience and Qualifications
15+ years of software product development experience.
10+ years of experience working with modern web and mobile language/frameworks such as Ruby, Python, Node.js, Go.
5+ years of team management experience.
Strong verbal and written communication and documentation skills.
Apolitical by nature –data-driven, but usually right when going on instinct
Proven track record of success managing development teams in high-functioning continuous delivery environment that supports outcomes for the business.
Mastery of modern agile software methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and planning tools (e.g. JIRA)
Deep knowledge and hands-on experience operating distributed, scalable SaaS offerings using Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container/orchestration) in production at scale.
Experience maintaining highly-available and elastically-scalable systems.
Skilled with modern IaaS, PaaS, and Linux system administration.
Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
Solid understanding of modern API design patterns (REST, GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
Strong understanding of Big Data systems.
Working knowledge of Data Privacy practices, GDPR, CCPA, etc.
Strong system security experience.
Benefits
Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
401K
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
A work/life balance beyond compare. And we mean it!
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Location: Seattle, WA - Remote
Openings: 1
Type: Full Time Hire
Job Description
The CLIENT
is searching for a senior technology leader for the role of [ Vice President] of Software Engineering (VPE)
to manage our agile team of SDEs, SREs, SDETs and UATs. In this role you will implement and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-based software solutions, identify, and execute customer integration solutions, and streamline the team’s software delivery tools and processes. A successful candidate will have both the experience and the passion for leading by example –managing up, down, and laterally.
Job Responsibilities
Live and breathe a DevOps culture managing teams of Senior SDEs and SREs that work hand-in-hand with you to deliver modern, scalable, SaaS software across multiple cloud providers.
Be ultimately responsible for the execution of the company’s software development roadmap for key products.
Build the engineering organization from existing and new employees and contractors to create the team with which you can best succeed at delivering on our business goals.
Manage your engineering team to deliver high quality software product, meet internal and external goals of the organization.
Foster a healthy culture of happy, productive, autonomous, team-oriented software engineers that respect one another and exhibit pride in software craftsmanship and shipping frequently.
Ensure engineering organization is properly staffed, tooled, and processed.
Define and execute on your department’s quarterly objectives in a measurable, repeatable way.
Collaborate with other VPs and senior management in defining higher-level corporate objectives.
Work with Information Technology on cloud and infrastructure needs.
Work with product owners to understand internal and external requirements and help the team design solutions to satisfy these.
Co-own relationships with vendors, cloud providers, and other third-party service providers.
Help vet, compare, assess, and select third-party technology providers and vendors.
Experience and Qualifications
15+ years of software product development experience.
10+ years of experience working with modern web and mobile language/frameworks such as Ruby, Python, Node.js, Go.
5+ years of team management experience.
Strong verbal and written communication and documentation skills.
Apolitical by nature –data-driven, but usually right when going on instinct
Proven track record of success managing development teams in high-functioning continuous delivery environment that supports outcomes for the business.
Mastery of modern agile software methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and planning tools (e.g. JIRA)
Deep knowledge and hands-on experience operating distributed, scalable SaaS offerings using Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container/orchestration) in production at scale.
Experience maintaining highly-available and elastically-scalable systems.
Skilled with modern IaaS, PaaS, and Linux system administration.
Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
Solid understanding of modern API design patterns (REST, GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
Strong understanding of Big Data systems.
Working knowledge of Data Privacy practices, GDPR, CCPA, etc.
Strong system security experience.
Benefits
Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
401K
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
A work/life balance beyond compare. And we mean it!
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