HEAD OF ENGINEERING (software products, not outsourcing)

We are looking for team players who are not only technically proficient, but also demonstrate the following qualities:

1. Continuous development: to embrace the concept of learning and becoming better day by day. Personal achievements give us energy and inspire our growth together.
2. Responsibility: to get involved courageously and to be the one who presses the start button whenever you see an opportunity.
3. Agility: being able to look into the future and search for the solution that will take us further.

What will your responsibilities look like?

• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping features in the committed time frame and budget;
• As a leader, you have to grow and maintain a team of high performing software engineers;
• Be a mentor for team members and guide them on personal and career growth;
• Coach and develop leadership skills of direct reports;
• Be an influencer and contributor across our entire engineering team;
• Facilitate, and when necessary resolve technical and interpersonal discussions;
• Assess and understand the technical needs of our customers, propose high-level architectural and technical solutions;
• Participate in feature discussions, high-level analysis, and planning, oversee high-level architecture design;
• Adopts a positive, innovative and committed approach to overcoming obstacles and problem solving;
• If a critical account situation demands engineering help, we expect you to provide highly responsive support to our customers;
• Improve code quality through regular code reviews;
• Continuously improving the quality of your team’s engineering practices;
• Encourage good software quality management practices (policies, standards, and procedures) and ensure compliance with coding standards and best practices;
• Ensure the overall quality output of the team;
• Split your time between 60% managing the team and 40% hands-on coding;
• When it’s necessary, play different roles as an Engineer to help the entire team succeed (Dev, DevOps, or even Tester);
• Engage in internal processes: interviews, regular performance assessments, hiring decisions;
• Bring up difficult or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of the Leadership Team;
• Help Marketing and Sales with different tasks: blog articles, events, speaking events, technical support, estimations, and enforcement of S&P’s way of working;
• Implement and oversee adoption of a unitary development process in respect with SDLC;
• Adopt a centralized architecture system;
• Responsible for architecture design across the entire organization

What abilities will you need?

• 8+ years of engineering experience (at least 1 year in an engineering management role)
• Experience in architecture design of high availability, high-scalability web applications, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Proven track record of execution and delivery, ability to accomplish goals, and meet commitments
• Comfortable to work with all tiers of modern cloud web and mobile applications, from the front end to the database
• Expertise in modern web technologies like Node and React/VueJs. PHP and PHP related frameworks like Laravel are a major plus. Mobile Development (Native and/or ReactNative) is also a plus
• Good understanding of Linux-based infrastructure
• Experience working with MySQL/NoSQL databases
• Experience with application vulnerability tools and application security concepts
• Experience with SCRUM, Kanban
• Understand full-stack modern web & mobile development process, frameworks, and tools
• Ability to handle time and resource constraints and the pressure that comes with it
• AWS, Google Cloud or Azure ecosystem knowledge is a plus
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience working with UML Modeling tools
• Experience working with architecture design tools

What would definitely make you one of us:

• Engineering mindset: you see solutions and improvement opportunities where others see issues
• Excellent communication and active listening skills
• You are constantly striving for improvement, aiming to be the best version of yourself, by always raising the standard you previously set
• You always strive to do what is right and deliver on commitments
• You are by nature a curious person and a problem solver
• “Lead by example” is not just a nice-sounding quote for you, but a life motto
• You’re passionate about your work and you’re looking to build something long term alongside like-minded people.