Vp Of Engineering Jobs

Who we are
At ThrillWorks, we are accelerating impact through future-focused digital products and experiences. At our core, we’re catalysts - partners in digital acceleration who look at all of the angles, test and learn as we go and continuously look for the smartest way to propel results.
If it lives on a screen in the digital world, we build it. From websites to mobile apps to media campaigns and everything else in between, we build it all with humanity to delight your customers and rapidly achieve returns on your digital investment. Our team is there every step of the way to bring that experience to life. Because to us, digital is more than a medium, more than a lifestyle – it is life.
We know that unlocking digital value takes a (remote) diverse and insightful village. Everyone is a highly valued contributor and collaborator, bringing their expertise and perspective to make us a success. Together, we’re building impactful technology that is more than just a set of fancy features. Every facet is steeped in intentional choices, from the way it feels to the way it works - and above all, to how it serves the business needs of our clients.
Who you are
We’re looking for a Vice President (VP) of Engineering who will play a pivotal role in the future of our company. You will set the overall tone for quality and direction across the entire engineering organization at Thrillworks. You will lead all development efforts with an eye to future strategic technical innovation while setting the long-term vision for Thrillworks 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.
How you will make an impact

• Build incredible teams and processes to engineer and deliver high quality products.
• Experience in designing and delivering distributed, highly available, large scale, high performing enterprise SaaS applications
• Become the key evangelist of the latest applicable technologies and drive innovative ideas, solutions and products through leadership and decisive action.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Recruit, onboard, develop, motivate and mentor a team of software engineers and technical leaders, building and growing a distributed high-performance team.
• 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.
• Lead engineering planning and coordinating with all technical team members with detailed specifications and expectations in order to deliver quality results within deadlines.
• Use activity data to objectively measure engineering performance, velocity, impact and optimize engineering processes for optimal output.
• A successful history in managing engineering projects from conception through design, development, deployment and maintenance, preferable in a SaaS based business
• Continuously ship high quality software, balancing competing priorities to ensure we ship exceptional features while also resolving defects and managing technical debt.
• 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.
• Deep organization capabilities, team oriented and result driven

What you bring

• Strong knowledge of the concepts, tools, practices and techniques of product management, technical architecture and engineering of highly scalable applications housed within an intelligent SaaS platform, powered by ML technologies.
• Excellent verbal and oral communication skills
• Drive product analytics to understand feature usage, comprehension, and optimization
• 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 AWS/Azure, React.js/Node.js, React Native, Kotlin or Swift, Java Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL and DynamoDB.
• Strong knowledge of machine learning, graph databases and highly available applications.
• 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 10+ years of web and mobile app development experience building customer facing products and services, preferably in a progressive and technology-oriented company

What are some nice to haves

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another relevant graduate degree.
• Experience with being on the leadership team of a company

What’s in it for you
Impact. At Thrillworks we are focused on recognizing opportunity and creating space and technologies that allow for experimentation and innovation. We are intentional in our work and collectively push each other beyond our comfort zone to achieve great things. We are fortunate to work on projects that are literally life changing. That includes, working with the top pharmaceutical companies in North America to further evolve their offerings in areas such as diabetic care and cardiac monitoring through web connected digital products.
Clarity and autonomy. We strive to empower employees to be an active part of our mission. That means ensuring everyone knows what we are working on and why; creating a space for idea sharing and innovation; and allowing people to make decisions without the constant need for approval. We believe in failing fast and succeeding together, collaborating on innovation and focusing on what’s best for our clients.
Challenges and growth. At Thrillworks, we know our people are our biggest asset and we do everything we can to make them feel recognized, heard, and appreciated. This is an opportunity to bring your insights and technical expertise to foster genuine influential relationships internally and externally, to have your ideas respected and come to life, and to make your mark on our processes, our solutions, and our engineering teams.
Why join?
Thrillworks is technology with purpose and people passionate about that purpose and doing the right thing. Led by our CEO, we believe a great culture is nurtured by great leaders and brought to life by amazing people. Our work and our culture are guided by our values. We live them every day in the office, working remotely, with each other and with our clients. To us, these aren’t words on the website created by consultants, they are the reality and the aspiration - the now and the future.

• Courage. We’re not afraid to try new things and challenge what’s been done before. Even when things aren’t great, we own the result.
• Curiosity. We’re always on the move with a “What if?” attitude. We like to think of ourselves as adventurous problem-solvers.
• Unity. Through respect, trust, and empathy, we put our egos aside in service of greatness. Collaboration isn’t optional.
• Passion. We want to be difference-makers, vocal optimists who believe we and our work can always be better.

What we do is the product of who we are and how we think. We’re challenging ourselves to do better than what’s been done before because everyone knows you can’t sit still in this rich, ever-evolving industry. We’re open to nerding out if you are. Apply now.
If you are driven by curiosity and have a passion for making a difference, and continuously pursue the next level in all that you do, we’d love to talk to you.
Thrillworks is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity. We believe Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion builds stronger and more successful teams, and we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. We welcome and appreciate candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences. Please let us know what accommodations or assistance we can provide you during the application process.
To learn more about what we do, please visit our website
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