Head of Engineering
Mintos - Riga
Deadline
2018-07-28
Description
Company
Summary
If you think deeply about questions like these, this position is for you:
- How do we ensure a culture of continuous learning in our team?
- What’s the best way to balance a focus on delivery with building long-lasting, scalable applications?
- How do we measure quality?
- What is our definition of “done?” What do our customers think “done” means?
- How can we balance innovation and experimentation with having core technical principles?
- How do we ensure visibility across the company of what the engineering does?
What you’ll do:
- Lead, manage, and inspire a growing team of software engineers.
- Uphold a strong culture of execution and accountability across engineering to accommodate our growth.
- Make sure the trains run on time by setting engineering roadmap and priorities and ensure a timely delivery.
- Partner closely with our CTO to define and deliver the technical vision for the platform.
- Jump into the trenches as needed, contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verification.
- Collaborate with the Product, Marketing, Investor Service, and Sales teams to build new features and products.
- Grow a high-performing and diverse engineering team by hiring, mentoring, and retaining top talent and developing the team’s domain knowledge, technical skills and essential soft-skills.
- Work with our Head of People to design the engineering interview structure, interview candidates, and co-own candidate lead generation activities (e.g. tech talks, conferences, etc.).
What you need to know/have:
- 5+ years of software development experience (ideally working with financial software and services), with at least 3 years leading a development team. Experience working in a startup environment, especially one which scaled successfully, is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of current and emerging technologies, and how these can help Mintos execute its product vision.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to establish strong personal connections, foster relationships, and inspire a team.
- Strong track record of attracting, mentoring, and retaining top talent.
- Passion for continuous experimentation and learning, coupled with a desire to make things run faster, better, and cheaper.
- Great communication skills to a variety of audiences, from technical to non-technical.
- Thorough understanding of the development process in an agile environment.
- Hands-on coding ability in tech stack similar to ours and how they integrate together: PHP, Symfony, Javascript, SQL, vue.js, jQuery, Yarn and SASS.
- Understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery and build automation.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline (but there are lots of great engineering leaders with other degrees).
Summary
Position
Head of Engineering
Location
Riga
Type
Full-time
Deadline
2018-07-28
Company
Mintos
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