VP Engineering (Head of Dev)

MoviePass

MoviePass

New York, NY, USA
Posted on Sep 12, 2024
Responsibilities

  • Recruit, develop, lead, and inspire a focused & scrappy engineering team around you
  • Hands-on, willing to write code and lead by example
  • Ensure everything stays up and is able to improve performance
  • Manage code reviews and releases
  • Understand which tech debt can accumulate and which needs to be burned and when — and communicate the reasons why to other stakeholders
  • Shape the tech underpinning the product roadmap


An exceptional candidate will have:

  • A love of movies - regularly going to the movies, in theaters and wanting to talk about it and make the experience better
  • Skills to move into a CTO role - we are open to first time, hands-on CTO
  • The ability to see themselves as a problem-solver
  • Experience working in an early-stage startup and familiarity with the ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities that comes along with that
  • A bias for action
  • Experience leading engineering teams at a hyper-growth startup. You've built for scale and built an engineering team from 1 → ???
  • Patience. So much patience!
  • Experience being business-minded & collaborative. Spent time working with others outside of Product & Engineering and understands the needs of the business to understand which trade-offs can and cannot be made
  • Humility & empathy. Mistakes are made (by you and others in the org), be open and honest about what happened and support teammates in moving forward
  • Experience working with AI/ML and experience working with blockchain technologies
  • Strong technology fundamentals and the ability to make high-impact decisions about long-term viability/scalability of technical solutions. Ability to communicate trade-offs to other stakeholders in the organization with varying degrees of technical fluency
  • Little to no ego
  • These aren't hard requirements. If you're an exceptional candidate, reach out!


Requirements

Technical Requirements

  • 10+ years of proven professional experience working along the tech stack (backend, frontend, and mobile frameworks & database administration)
  • Proven professional dev ops experience (Kubernetes, CI/CD)
  • Proven professional Experience with AWS and GCP


Current Tech Stack

  • Scala (AkkaHttp & Play), Javascript (React.js, Next.js)
  • SwiftUI & Jetpack Compose
  • NoSQL & SQL databases
  • AWS & GCP


Benefits

Full time salary

Health insurance

Unlimited time off

Free movies

This role is a hybrid role and will be in-person at our office 4 days a week.