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minware

VP of Engineering

minware, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


About minwareminware provides development observability software that helps engineering organizations gain full visibility into their software development process to improve predictability, efficiency, and more.

Kevin Borders

founded minware after bootstrapping his previous company to $86m in revenue and selling in 2021, with the idea of helping others benefit from lessons learned growing an engineering team from 0 to 40.

minware is a self-funded seed-stage company. After promising initial customer traction, we are looking for people who share

our values

to help bring minware to a larger audience.

The RoleAs an early VP, you will have the unique opportunity to work directly with minware’s founders and engineers to build the product and define the company’s culture. We are looking for someone who has strong interpersonal skills, high empathy, and a solid understanding of our product domain – software development analytics.

We are seeking an ambitious and nice engineering leader who has experience managing managers on a happy and productive engineering team. As a purveyor of developer productivity software, we are diligent about process efficiency and code quality. Though we are small, we try to avoid unnecessarily creating technical debt and are looking for someone who can lead us toward this goal.

Primary Responsibilities

Manage managers and engineers building minware’s software.

Work with product leaders to define minware’s roadmap and product strategy.

Have ultimate responsibility for minware’s reliability, availability, performance, quality, and security.

Oversee minware’s software architecture and backlog of quality, technical debt, and other engineering-led improvement areas.

Coach managers and engineers to provide career development.

Lead hiring strategy and execution for minware’s engineering team.

Qualifications

Previous experience managing other managers building modern full-stack applications, including both application

Experience leading DevOps and security functions

Experience analyzing and reporting data related to engineering team productivity and delivery

Strong communication skills and high empathy for interfacing with non-technical stakeholders and occasionally with customers

Well-versed in agile or lean planning and project management processes

Start-up experience building an engineering organization from scratch for a B2B SaaS product is highly desired

Benefits and Perks

Competitive base salary, bonus, and seed-stage equity compensation

100% remote work, flexible hours, and unlimited vacation policy. ( Read here

about how we built trust in our previous all-remote company.)

Full health care premium coverage for you and your family

Unique career development guidance reporting working on a small team.

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