About the role
Responsibilities:
- Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.
- Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.
- Team management: You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping individuals grow in their careers, having constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.
Requirements:
- Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility.
- Ability to architect, design and code yourself.
- Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications.
- Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database).
- Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.
- Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality.
- Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.
- You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer science.
- Total of 9+ years of experience building cutting-edge products.
- Deep experience in building very large-scale applications and 2 + years of experience in team management.
- Strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms.