Responsibilities

Provide leadership, management, and technical vision for the software engineering team.

Represent team in meetings and documents with executive team and partners.

Develop, implement, and optimize all software engineering plans and processes.

Provide suitable decision making for product development and software engineering maintaining sensitivity to constraints and business needs.

Direct and manage software engineering resource allocation, schedules and budget.

Manage and oversee joint development with 3rd party vendors along with outsourced development.

Stimulate hiring, training, performance reviews and career plans for software engineering team.

Present employee development, mentoring, coaching and team building.

Remain current with technology trends and industry best practices, particularly for the platforms and tools and processes that we use.

Not expected to contribute individually. Expected to effectively manage and set policy for both managers and individual contributors. Expected to develop and maintain positive interactions with leaders and staff in other departments.

🧭 The ideal candidate

10+ years shipping commercial software for 3+ companies and used by millions of users

Experience shipping installed software, ideally Windows desktop software

Experience working in early-stage startups

Experience prototyping your own applications and APIs

Ability to balance multiple priorities

Strong analytical skills

Self-starter with excellent time management and organization skills

Strong technical skills in Windows application development, distributed systems and the web (all).

Must love code

Experienced managing distributed teams where you have never met your teammates and have developed strong bonds with them

Fluent English

Nice to have:

Experience with Jira

Experience with extremely agile development, i.e. not tied to rigid schedules or sprints

Experience with security threats and best practices

Experience with online advertising mechanics