Director / VP of Engineering and Development
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Our client, a Fortune™ 500 company, is the industry leader in financial services payment technology. Currently the firm is doing 4-5 days a week working onsite in office.
We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader to lead our client's team and deliver solutions from design through development, deployment into production, and operational support across existing and expanding regions. To keep pace with our remarkable growth, you will help modernize the design and development of a globally used point of sale system.
Basic qualifications for consideration:
• Bachelor’s Degree required, related discipline in Computer Science and/or Engineering is .
• Experience building customer facing applications.
• Hands on Java development experience building high through put/low latency APIs
• 15 + years of experience as a People Leader managing small to midsize teams.
• Payment tech industry experience
Qualifications for consideration:
• Experience with backend / web application development.
• Experience with MySQL or similar relational databases.
• Building distributed, service oriented, microservices-style, and cloud-based application architectures (we use Spring Boot on Google Cloud, and transitioning to Kubernetes).
As a Director of Engineering, you can look forward to:
• Leading 2-3 scrum teams of 6-8 engineers and managing their deliverables, execution, and career growth through mentoring and coaching.
• Manage teams in multiple geographical locations
• Providing inspiration and guidance to the growing team; fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and innovation.
• Having a passion for coaching and mentoring teams, helping individuals grow professionally and technically.
• Being responsible for the end-to-end delivery of features
• Ensuring that we are keeping pace with the technology that balances delivering solutions efficiently and creating a technically challenging and fun development environment.
• Working cross-functionally with Product Management, Design, Quality, Operations, and Customer Support.
• Defining roadmaps and schedules, and delivering high-quality solutions for our clients and partners.
• Ensuring a high level of technical quality by driving architectural decisions and leading code reviews with your team.
• Participating in bug triage meetings and helping prioritize bugs raised from internal and external customers.
• Partnering with HR in identifying and onboarding engineering talent as we continue to grow.
• Reviewing technical designs and delivery of high-quality architecture.
• Assessing risks based on product complexity, resource, and/or timeline constraints.
• Maintaining relationships with internal & external partners during the implementation process to ensure that any critical issues are promptly addressed.
• Establishing department standards and procedures, recommending efficient ways to ensure the best implementation practices of new or upgraded products.
• Displaying strong verbal and written communication, with ability to communicate effectively with all levels of an organization.
Basic qualifications for consideration:
• Bachelor’s Degree required, related discipline in Computer Science and/or Engineering is .
• Experience building customer facing applications.
• Hands on Java development experience building high through put/low latency APIs
• 15 + years of experience as a People Leader managing small to midsize teams.
• Payment tech industry experience
Qualifications for consideration:
• Experience with backend / web application development.
• Experience with MySQL or similar relational databases.
• Building distributed, service oriented, microservices-style, and cloud-based application architectures (we use Spring Boot on Google Cloud, and transitioning to Kubernetes).
Company DescriptionSnakorpio is a boutique consulting and executive search firm founded by Industry veterans. We are currently servicing tier 1 investment banks, buy-side funds, technology service providers, energy, Biotech and fortune 500 companies. Our strength is our strong relationships with our clients and unprecedented success rate in candidate placement.Company DescriptionSnakorpio is a boutique consulting and executive search firm founded by Industry veterans. We are currently servicing tier 1 investment banks, buy-side funds, technology service providers, energy, Biotech and fortune 500 companies. Our strength is our strong relationships with our clients and unprecedented success rate in candidate placement.