Position: Engineering Manager/Lead Architect
Company: GT-HQ
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Vodori is looking to build a strong Ukrainian team with the Engineering Manager at the top to work directly with a current technical Chicago team, who are deeply invested in the project. You have a chance to be the first member of the Ukrainian counterpart and help us build the team from the ground up. 

**The responsibilities of the Ukrainian team will involve the migration of the platform to the new technology stack and the development of the new features.**Currently, Vodori is in the process of steadily switching to a new up-to-date tech stack (Java, AWS, Angular).

**About Vodori**
Vodori (Chicago, US) is an innovative disruptor providing software solutions to the life sciences industry with a primary focus on commercial sales and marketing processes. They have an existing portfolio of products - Pepper Flow, Pepper Insight, Pepper Folio, and an underlying Platform product - with a strong existing client base like some of the members of Fortune 500 Pharmaceuticals Companies.

The solutions ensure that effective compliant selling processes are followed by sales and marketing teams when dealing with healthcare practitioners and ensure that relevant content is available in a flexible, secure, validated, and cost-effective manner by teams globally. An existing competitor is well established in this sector in the life sciences industry (Veeva), but Vodori is well-positioned to disrupt their position of market dominance through offering cost-effective and flexible solutions to the small and medium players in the industry and over time competing for the major Big pharma companies business as well.

**Tech stack: **, , , Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, SQL 

**What we are looking for:**
- 10+ years total experience in engineering and/or software architecture roles across various tech environments.
- You are a seasoned leader with 5+ years of experience acting as technical design authority and thought leader to build software products.
- You will be excited by the opportunity to take a leadership role in a team of talented engineers.
- You are motivated by empowering the people around you and helping them thrive.
- You understand the agile methodology, a variety of programming languages (especially  and ). 
- Knowledge of  cloud software at  is a big plus.

**Must-have skills: **
- Design authority experience with customer-facing applications in high-growth engineering organizations.
- You have in-depth experience with some combination of cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, data pipeline development, or complex web platform development. 
- You have a working knowledge of a modern programming language ( preferred), relational database design, web platform development, API design, and/or distributed systems. You’re not required to be an expert in all of these areas, but it helps to be an expert in some.
- Extensive cross-collaboration experience working with functional heads/teams across the organization.
- Proven track record of creating pragmatic, maintainable systems, using industry-recognized best practices and design patterns
- Understand and design for non-functional concerns such as performance, security, compliance, cost optimization, and maintainability
- Ability to work as part of an agile collaborative team in a fast-paced environment.

**Desirable skills:**
- Experience in  products for Life Science (biology, science, pharma) business domain.
- No-ego leader who will "roll up your sleeves" and dig into issues to define and execute solutions.
- Entrepreneurial, business outcome-focused leader.
- A clear, transparent, and efficient communicator who can discuss technical design considerations across teams (UX/UI, product management, sales).
- Comfortable leading and operating with resource constraints.

**Responsibilities:**
- You will be a leading design authority for Vodori, interacting with and influencing the engineering teams globally. 
- You will build strong relationships with the US-based head of engineering (your direct line manager), the US-based CPO, and the US-based CTO. 
- You will also be the most senior person in our team on the ground in Kyiv and will play a leadership role in ensuring that a talented team of engineers is motivated and engaged to deliver great results.

**How will you work?**
You will work directly with a client through our Extended Team model. We try to do things differently and put our efforts to integrate you as deeply as possible into the client's team. You work with the same tools and technologies as they do and communicate directly with a client without any intermediary in between. We help you build relationships and create an environment where you genuinely feel like a member of the core product team. Our clients usually (before the pandemic) came for a week each month and spend a lot of time with the team in Kyiv. We also encourage trips to a client and joint teambuilding and after-work activities. Our Extended Team model is focused on long-term projects that last over several years.