VP, Software Engineering

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What you will be doing:

Lumere is looking for a technology leader to oversee its platform engineering and infrastructure teams. The successful candidate has been battle-tested in a growth-stage SaaS company and is ready to apply those learnings as the head of our growing software organization.

 

Your technical talent and experience will be crucial to our success, but the right candidate for this role is equally motivated by coaching, developing and managing software engineers. The ideal candidate should also be excited to represent our first class team everywhere from industry conferences to the board room. The VP, Software Engineering will report to the CTO and have 3-5 direct reports and a total team of 15-20.

 

Responsibilities include:

  • Lead our engineering teams in solving the big technical challenges, from performance bottlenecks to our evolving and modernizing our CI/CD workflow
  • Work with product, design, and analytics professionals to ensure our engineers are positioned to satisfy their sprint commitments
  • Work side by side with our founder/CTO to create and execute our ‘technical vision’ and provide strategic guidance for the business
  • Lend your software architecture skills across the engineering team to help identify opportunities for code consolidation and improvement
  • Review pull requests, troubleshoot tough development issues, and foster our pair-programming and team-wide knowledge sharing efforts
  • Develop and maintain code standards and hold us accountable to them
  • Help engineers identify their personal development priorities and help us support them in their efforts to achieve them
  • Represent the engineering team in leadership meetings
  • Evangelize the team’s work in the Chicago tech and open source community and promote recruiting efforts

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years experience overseeing engineering departments and leading engineering team strategy
  • A talent for helping engineers understand the big picture, as well as the appropriate level of investment and abstraction for a given problem
  • SaaS software development and architecture experience
  • A bias for action and ability to know what needs doing
  • The ability to create a strong sense of urgency and empowerment from within a culture that values sustainability and the happiness of its developers
  • The ability to deliver radically candid feedback and coaching in real time
  • Excellent interpersonal and hiring instincts
  • A high-energy, unfailingly positive attitude
  • Exposure with at least some of our stack (Python/Django, Vue.js, PostgreSQL) preferred

 

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