VP of Engineering, Fin-Tech
VP of Engineering, Fin-Tech
About the job
Our company
The Company builds a secure platform that simplifies your life. It supports individuals and families in managing their complex lives in a secure, private, and efficient manner. It organizes families’ disparate assets, provides clear approval processes for investments and other approvals, and helps organize projects and management with tasks and checklists. This strengthens the connections and creates an audit history with trusted sources, such as family members, property managers, captains, crew, lawyers, tax advisers and investment managers.
Our ideal candidate has
7+ years of software experience at a startup or technology focused company
4+ years of managing and mentoring of engineers of all experience levels
2+ years of experience as a Director of Engineering or equivalent role
Strong expertise and talent in wielding full-stack Javascript
Strong expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes
Strong expertise in defining engineering team metrics
Expertise in service architecture
Privacy and Security focused mindset and practices
Bonus points for
Expertise with Agile methodology
Expertise with Accounting or Investment management software
Expertise with Mobile development
What you'll be doing
Will be responsible for the managing and continuous career development of the engineering and QA team. The role will also include 10-20% of time focused on individual contributions.
Code review of all significant front end and back end modifications
Coordination with CTO and VP of Tech Ops on major architectural changes and planning
Contributing to product teams within normal release cycle
Monitoring industry developments and determining impact and implementation within our platform
Growing future leaders by serving as a mentor to junior staff, helping them develop both technically and in their role
Will drive incremental value through iteration of processes, frameworks and ideas
Practicing constant vigilance with respect to security and privacy
Grow engineering teams as needed, including hire, promote, and mentor leads
Oh yeah, and we can offer you
A tight-team knit of motivated, dedicated individuals who work together without ego
Extensive access to, and engagement with leadership
Practice of Agile methodology
Opportunity to strengthen individual privacy and digital protections
Competitive salary
Access to new technology
A fully stocked kitchen in our San Francisco or Chicago office
401K
Cell Phone Reimbursements
Health, dental, vision, and commuter benefits
Expectations in first six months
Command leadership of the team with the team's trust in you and ability to help team members develop professionally.Provide objective recommendations that demonstrate technical and business understanding.
Performance of the API is improved to < 0.5 second latency for common non-trivial read operations.
Shorten Release cycle from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. This implies:
Oversee automated testing and unit test coverage
Ensure high quality code
Enable quick builds and easy rollbacks
Establish sound, repeatable coding standards for:
Layout and UX techniques
Client side state management
Component libraries with right level of abstraction and configuration
Appropriate use of API’s , pagination
Caching
Appropriate use of Node (patterns, anti-patterns)
Efficient SQL
Multi-tenant architecture designed to complement current single tenant offering
API is improved to allow for easy integrations to third party software.
Industry
Individual & Family Services
Employment Type: Full-time