Technical Leadership and Architecture
Who we're looking for
This is for someone who has experience bringing together engineering teams in the past and who knows both big company practices and flexible start up needs while still being hands on in code.
You understand the value of processes, best practices, and mentoring younger engineers, and can lead architectural and technical design decisions as we scale the company. We value you rolling up your sleeves and leading by example to make things happen as a key part of managing as a leader.
You are someone who can lead by individual example, is a team player, and facilitates good practices throughout the team. You are flexible, proactive, communicate clearly, have consistent follow through, and take ownership and responsibility over your projects and wider responsibilities.
Your ultimate responsibility is the success of your engineering team.
Where we expect you
to contribute
Best Practices and Processes
You care about leading, creating, and instilling best practices and processes to ensure development efficiency. You work incrementally to improve processes and contribute to documentation. As a senior engineering lead on the team, you are a role model in your individual conduct and your team leadership for how your engineering team should run.
You are ultimately responsible for the success of your engineering team and instilling best practices that make engineering a "turnkey" organization.
Team Mentorship
We have motivated, hungry, energized team members who are eager to learn and have enough collective experience inside and outside the team to understand their capabilities and which areas they need to improve on. They value coaching and learning from their peers and their seniors. These team members are not the kind who need to be micromanaged. You will be joining a group of seniors who are invested in their development.
Part of your responsibility will be to help these engineers grow into leaders themselves.
Code
You have a deep expertise in the core technologies that you're familiar with, strong computer science fundamentals including algorithms, and veteran experience in working with business people, product managers, and designers to develop modular and robust technical architectures that meet business needs. You're comfortable working with multiple stakeholders in a tight, fast-moving team to collaborate to make a clearly communicated and flexible roadmap.
You understand that developing a successful application is more than just code. It involves all the processes around code (documentation, deployment, best practices, etc).
You have a business and product-driven mindset that informs your judgment on architectural tradeoffs (e.g. robust and scalable vs. fast and temporary).
While your highest leverage work is developing the technical plan and guiding the team, you are excited and motivated to get hands on in the code in high leverage situations on a regular basis.
Family Values
Our team works because we also treat everyone as part of an extended family and emphasize the importance of having strong values. You have a work / life integration that works for you and how we work at SVI. Our team members are in it for the long run - those invested in the team remain part of the extended SVI family throughout their careers.