Job Title: VP of Engineering
 

Overview: We are looking for a software engineering leader who is passionate about leading and building products.  We have a nimble, fast-moving engineering team and want to add a senior leader to the team who can take it to the next level.  We are highly customer-oriented and focused on strong design and engineering on the back end.  This position will require you to architect and implement solutions and features to serve our customer base.

 

The ideal candidate should be able to both lead development processes and be hands on with feature development.  The role will report directly to the CEO.  The candidate will manage the software engineering, platform engineer, DevOps, and IT functions at our organization and will work closely with the VP of Product.

About Us:

We believe that strong ethics is good business. We help companies advance business integrity through data-driven assessments, benchmarking, and guidance. We honor superior achievement through the World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition; we promote professional collaboration through the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA); we showcase best practices through events and media such as the Global Ethics Summit and Ethisphere Magazine; and we advance ethics & compliance data measurement through our benchmarking platform, The Sphere.

Our employees are our greatest strength. We seek the brightest talent so we may invest in their professional development and position them for success within the expanding ethics, compliance, and corporate culture space. Our fully remote team consists of more than 65 employees living in 25 states across the U.S. and four time zones. We have a diverse, inclusive, and supportive culture that values flexibility, collaboration, and strong work-life balance. We have a strong sense of organizational justice, and encourage transparency and clear channels of dialogue at every level of our company. With a history of strong, sustained growth, we offer professional opportunities at junior, middle, and senior levels.

We are backed by a people-driven private equity firm.

Responsibilities:

• Design, analyze, test, document, and implement highly complex, technically sound, and well-integrated code. 
• Work closely with product management to define the roadmap, set priorities, provide estimates, and improve product specification.
• Facilitating discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Develop individual team members to further their technical, business, and professional skills to advance the technology roadmap.  When called upon, be able to directly perform technical work that advances deliverables. 
• Set appropriate team and individual goals and hold all accountable toward progress against those goals. 
• Act as change champion and own the adoption of evolving engineering processes and methodologies.
• Implementing effective agile-oriented project management tools. 
• Facilitate daily stand ups, weekly planning, and review meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
• Lead architecture and code reviews and get hands-on in the code development/deployment when appropriate.
• Evolve the suite of tools and platforms utilized by the team to optimize efficiency and performance. 
• Provide visibility into platform and product viability through well-chosen metrics and concise status reporting.
• Perform all levels of software integration testing and QA validation
• Assume responsibility for application support and immediate response to production issues as they arise.

Requirements:
Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Master’s in Computer Science and or MBA preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years’ experience in highly trafficked websites or mobile apps.
• Minimum of 5+ years leading and/or managing interdisciplinary development teams at the Director level
• Experience developing and maintain web applications using JavaScript, Node.js, React, and TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge and experience in API development for cloud-native SaaS applications, API design, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent), with a focus on automation and secure code development.
• Demonstrated understanding of secure Agile SDLC practice
• Proficiency with AWS services, especially RDS, Lambda, S3, and API Gateway, for managing cloud-native applications
• Knowledge and experience in best-practice engineering processes/methodologies/platforms such as Agile, Service Oriented Architecture, separation of concern, redundancy, and high scalability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships.
• Experience in building, engaging, retaining teams and influencing outcomes.

 

Personal Characteristics

• Analytical – can find meaning in numbers, and be a data-driven decision-maker
• Excellent communicator – written and oral 
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Adept at learning web-based tools
• Resourceful. Figures out how to achieve results creatively with finite resources
• Thrives in a nimble, lean, unstructured, fast-paced startup 
• Works collaboratively and energetically
• Impeccable integrity and ethical standards. Self-aware, accepting, honest, open, polite and respectful of others
• Self-motivated, requiring minimal supervision and the ability to stay focused even when the requirements are broad.
• Ability to create and execute on processes for a growing SaaS startup using best practices.
• An undying commitment to personal growth and development

Perks:

• Competitive pay with a 20% annual bonus based off company and individual performance
• Monthly wellness and home office stipends
• Excellent benefits package with fully-paid medical plans
• 4% employer match on 401(k)