VP Engineering (Head of Dev)

MoviePass

MoviePass

New York County, NY, USA
Posted on Oct 29, 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.