Vp of Engineering

**About us**

Our mission is to help millions of people succeed in life, whatever that means for them, by providing the highest quality information in the smartest way so they can make the best-informed decisions possible. To do this, we’re looking for individuals to join a team where product quality means everything, where you’ll be given the opportunity to develop your best work, and where the fruits of your labor will be seen by millions of people each and every day.

**Join our Spanish team**

We’ve got people all over the world, but our new Spanish office is the heart of our tech operations. So, if you’re looking for a start-up, get stuck-in vibe, but with all the resources and firepower of a major scale-up, then look no further, this is the place for you Join us here and help shape the future of our tech operations There’s never been a better time to join the Spain team as we continue to grow, offering extensive opportunities for professional development.

**Our tech stack - Work with cutting-edge technologies**

We are using the latest technologies, ensuring our team works on innovative and challenging projects: JavaScript, ReactJS, TypeScript with NodeJS, Python and Golang on the backend.

***1. Experience in Managing Large Teams**:

- **Experience in managing large engineering teams** (200+ people), including managers, developers, DevOps specialists, QA, and other technical staff.
- **Scaling processes**: The ability to effectively organize the work of a large engineering team, ensuring high productivity and process standardization.
- **Supervision of managers**: Experience in managing and developing multiple layers of management, including technical leads and directors.

**2. Focus on Delivery and Meeting Deadlines**:

- **Expert knowledge in project management**: Ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously, monitor progress, assess risks and priorities to ensure timely product delivery.
- **Achieving business goals**: Focus on business outcomes, achieving performance targets, and ensuring timely delivery while maintaining product quality.
- **Process optimization**: Experience in creating and optimizing development processes (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and other methodologies) to increase the speed of product delivery without sacrificing quality.

**3. Strategic Development Management**:

- **Delivery strategy creation**: Ability to develop and implement delivery strategies aimed at speeding up development and release processes.
- **Coordination with product management**: Close collaboration with the product team to manage priorities and ensure the delivery of key features within the set deadlines.

**4. Leadership and Motivation Skills**:

- **Developing engineering leaders**: Ability to develop and maintain a strong team of technical leaders and managers capable of independently managing and delivering tasks.
- **Managing large teams**: Proficiency in effectively managing teams at different levels, including developers, QA engineers, DevOps, and other functions.
- **Team motivation**: Supporting high team engagement, creating conditions for growth and motivation through goals, feedback, and recognition of achievements.

**5. Financial Management and Resource Planning**:

- **Experience in budget management**: The ability to effectively manage the engineering budget, allocate resources to maximize team productivity.
- **Cost optimization and efficiency improvement**: The ability to evaluate resource usage efficiency and find ways to optimize costs without sacrificing product quality or delivery speed.

**6. Process Automation and DevOps**:

- **Experience in implementing and managing CI/CD processes**: Knowledge of modern tools and approaches to automating builds, testing, and deployments.
- **DevOps and infrastructure**: Experience working with DevOps teams to ensure infrastructure stability and scalability, which is critical for effective delivery.

**7. Performance Monitoring and Quality**:

- **Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)**: The ability to develop and monitor performance metrics for the team and delivery success (time to release, defect count, system performance).
- **Quality control**: Ensuring that quality does not suffer in the accelerated delivery process, including managing testing and automation processes.

**8. Culture and Organizational Values**:

- **Supporting a culture of innovation and improvement**: The ability to create a culture focused on continuous process improvement and finding more effective solutions for delivery.
- **Inclusivity and open communication**: Ability to maintain a culture of open knowledge sharing where every team can contribute to improving development and delivery processes.

**9. Education and Qualifications**:

- **Higher technical education**: A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields.
- **Experience in program and project management**: Experience in project