VP of Engineering

Jacqueline Adams & Associates; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacqueline Adams & Associates is seeking a VP of Engineering to build a world-class engineering culture and team. You will shape technology and product to deliver an unparalleled user experience, oversee platform, applications, and infrastructure, and directly contribute to writing code and the tech stack.

You will mentor a diverse team, define roles, allocate resources, and drive strategic roadmaps while balancing rapid growth with scalable architecture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in fast paced environments.
• 4 years managing an engineering team (in-house and outsourced).
• Experience guiding a venture-backed product from launch to scale.
• Proven ability to ship high quality software on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Oversee platform, applications, database, and tech infrastructure, delivering features on time.
• Directly contribute to building the platform, writing code, and shaping tech stack.
• Create and maintain processes to ensure high quality products are delivered.
• Lead engineering organization, mentor engineers, and manage resources and happiness.
• Inform strategic roadmaps, identify inefficiencies, and streamline execution.
• Make architecture trade-off decisions to balance growth with long-term scalability.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Hiring

Communication

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile practices

Tools

HTML/CSS

React Native

MySQL

Vendor system integration

Job description

We're looking for an incredible VP of Engineering tobuild a world class engineering culture and team. You will and shapetechnology and product to deliver an unparalleled experience to users.

Responsibilities

• Oversee platform, applications, database, and technology infrastructure, ensuring you & your team effectively develop & deliver planned features on time and in an efficient manner.
• Directly contribute to building the platform, writing code and creating tech stack.
• Create and maintain processes that ensure high quality products can be delivered
• Manage & build technology & engineering organization. You will mentor and empower a diverse group of engineers by defining individual roles and responsibilities, generating buy-in, allocating resources, and managing team and individual progress and happiness.
• Be a key thought partner, informing strategic and product roadmaps, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing methods to streamline execution across the company.
• Drive and own key architectural and technical trade-off decisions that balance serving rapidly growing customer demand while building a scalable platform for the long term; ensure technology is versatile and set up to scale & enhance properly with future growth.

Requirements

We're looking for someone who is:

• Up for the challenge of solving problems while working and building with intent in a fast paced environment.
• Not afraid to get their hands dirty, write code and fulfill the evolving role as manager of a small but fast growing team.
• Energized by the ambiguity and intensity inherent in a rapidly growing, early stage company, taking initiative to drive the team to achieve great things.
• Extremely comfortable working on fullstack applications, web and mobile, and databases.
  
• Experienced with synthesizing input from internal & external teams, and from within the tech organization, to make critical prioritization decisions.
  
• Very capable of designing, implementing, and revising development and testing processes that yield high quality products, deliver results on time, and maximize the team's happiness.
• Experienced with, and enjoys, the unique challenges of marketplaces.
• Experienced with leading a team at a venture-backed company (or equivalent) through a product launch.
• Very capable of hiring, motivating, mentoring, managing, and assessing distributed teams.
• Very collaborative with other team members within & across teams and US/international cities, and an excellent communicator
• Extremely agile & flexible, since we will evolve a lot as a company.

Experience

• Worked for over 10 years in fast paced environments
• 4 years managing an engineering team (in-house and outsourced), preferably in an early stage startup environment.

Technical skills required:

• HTML/CSS front-end expertise
• Familiarity with React Native
• Familiarity working with databases like MySQL
• Experience with vendor system/application integration