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Mintos

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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