VP Engineering at Smile.io

• On the management front, you'll: • Mentor, develop, and guide your engineering directors, engineering managers, and engineers so they can do their best work. • Help guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs. • Participate in all steps of the recruiting process to build the engineering team. • Lead with compassion and make the tough calls when needed. • Listen to first understand and build consensus. • Be pragmatic, learn about the product, process, and tools, and evaluate what can be done to build faster and better products, and maintain acceptable SLOs and system operations. • Work as an effective leader across the organization, and collaborate with other leaders to translate the business priorities of the company into a technical agenda. • As a manager of engineers and a technology leader, you'll: • Be a key contributor to strategic and tactical roadmap planning and product definition. • Guide our engineering design and architecture decisions. • Be intimately familiar with our product, languages, and our tech stack to make decisions about vendors and frameworks. • Focus on delivery, execution, and our tactical engineering approach. • Be on top of the latest technologies, tools, methodologies, and frameworks for software engineering and engineering management. • Ensure our systems are scalable, development is reproducible, tested, and that we have efficient deployment processes. • Ensure the team is building simple, elegant solutions in an iterative way by coaching on best practices and how/when to make trade-offs.

VP Engineering

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Mike Rossi

Manuela Vargas Jaramillo Verified

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