Vice President Of Engineering

The Opportunity:

Our partner, an established and quickly growing creative agency based in Burlington is seeking a VP of Engineering. You will set the overall tone for quality and direction across the entire engineering organization. You will lead all development efforts with an eye to future strategic technical innovation while setting the long-term vision for the companies' technologists and cultivating relationships at a senior level with significant clients. You’ll be managing software engineers, test engineers, DevOps engineers, and software architects, and collaborating with the Product and Growth teams, as well as providing the overall vision and success for the technical and product roadmaps.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build incredible teams and processes to engineer and deliver high quality products.
• Experience with the specification and development enterprise and solutions architecture
• A proven track record for coaching, managing and developing technical team leaders and engineers, partnering with HR to develop departmental career ladder and training plans to better facilitate talent growth & development within the team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Use activity data to objectively measure engineering performance, velocity, impact and optimize engineering processes for optimal output.
• Recruit, onboard, develop, motivate and mentor a team of software engineers and technical leaders, building and growing a distributed high-performance team.
• Continuously ship high quality software, balancing competing priorities to ensure we ship exceptional features while also resolving defects and managing technical debt.
• Deep organization capabilities, team oriented and result driven
• Lead engineering planning and coordinating with all technical team members with detailed specifications and expectations in order to deliver quality results within deadlines.
• Experience in designing and delivering distributed, highly available, large scale, high performing enterprise SaaS applications
• Business skills, client exposure, and RFPs.
• Become the key evangelist of the latest applicable technologies and drive innovative ideas, solutions and products through leadership and decisive action.
• Build long-term relationships with our clients by caring about their needs and designing solutions that meet their needs and exceed their expectations.
• A successful history in managing engineering projects from conception through design, development, deployment and maintenance, preferable in a SaaS based business
• Work closely with the Product, DevOps, and co-own the technology and product roadmaps with the VP of Experience and VP of Product, and communicate with C-level staff, clients and other stakeholders.

What You'll Need to Be Successful:

• Strong knowledge of SaaS architectures, modern UI/UX design, software development cycles, agile methodologies, web and mobile application usability and functionality best practices.
• Must have 7+ years of people management and hands-on coding experience working with full-stack software engineering teams to build micro services, APIs, data systems and web applications
• Strong knowledge of the concepts, tools, practices and techniques of product management, technical architecture and engineering of highly scalable applications, and intelligent SaaS platforms
• Strong knowledge of machine learning, graph databases and highly available applications.
• Drive product analytics to understand feature usage, comprehension, and optimization
• Must have 10+ years of web, mobile app, and cloud solutions development experience building customer facing products and services, preferably in a progressive and technology-oriented company
• Ability to conceive and execute a tech strategy with milestones and success metrics
• Excellent verbal and oral communication skills, good people skills for both internal use and with clients
• Strong knowledge of AWS/Azure, React.js/Node.js, React Native, Kotlin or Swift, Java Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL, DynamoDB and Flutter