VP R&D

תאור התפקיד

Responsibilities/Duties  
  • Establish the company’s technical vision and leads all aspects of the company’s technological development.
  • Works in a consultative fashion with other department heads, such as marketing, production and operations as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Provide leadership to department heads in a fashion that supports the company’s culture, mission and values.
  • Work closely with CEO and other interfaces to deliver the roadmap.
  • Conducts research and case studies on leading edge technologies and makes determinations on the probability of implementation.
  • Willing to be Hands on 30%-50%
  • Lead our Development group, consisting of 3-5 full-stack software developers.
  • End-to-end delivery to production – From design to deploy. Full ownership on the quality of the deliveries.
  • Provide design and architecture leadership, mentor the team, and implement best practices.
  • Design, architect and code backend solution

דרישות התפקיד

Education and experience
  • computer science degree
  • at least 7 years of experience with software development and/or within a tech unit in startups.
  • a minimum of 4 years in senior management experience of tech development.
  • proven experience in combining a dialogue between business needs and tech requirements.
  • experience in working with the product manager in order to well establish a product road-map and its delivery.
  • full mastery of a variety of programming languages.
  • strong writing and presentation skills.
  • vast experience in managing development of large scale web products.
  • ability to actively communicate, inspire and motivate all levels of staff.
  • ability to think and act strategically and proactively
Technologies
  • backend: node.js, java
  • frontend: ember.js, js foundation
  • db: postgres, elastic search, redis
  • based on aws infrastructure.