Position: Engineering Director / Tech Lead for Norwegian Tech Startup
Company: Oceanbolt
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for a strong and experienced Engineering Director or Tech Lead for our Ukraine based development team. You will be responsible for building our entire development organization, including management of teams, recruiting of talent and leading the SCRUM/development processes.

We are a Norwegian tech startup, focusing on delivering real time data to customers within the shipping industry and the commodity industry. We are planning to open a development office in either Kiev or Kharkiv, and in connection with that, we are looking for an Engineering Director / Tech Lead, to  lead the office, and to build our organization.

The role will part of the management of the company, and will report directly to the CEO.

Desired skills include:
- Strong project management capabilities
- People management and leadership;
- Experience leading software projects through all development stages.
- Good knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies
- Very strong track records of leading previous development teams

In addition to the management skills, we are also looking for a person with strong technical skills and foundation. You will need to have good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, SRE and application development. DUring the ramp up of the team, you will also need to handle the role of architecht, and ensure that the right technologies and design decisions are being applied to our product development.

We currently have a working MVP, and it will be your first responsiblity to scale this MVP to fully mature product. MVP is built on Golang as backend, Vue.JS as frontend, and MongoDB/Postgres as db layer. This is a management tech lead position, so the focus will be on building the organization, and driving the development process, but you will also need to have good understanding of the core technologies that we use.

We can offer attractive compensation package for the right candidate. The candidate should also be prepared to travel to Oslo 3-4 times a year.

Please reach out to us, in case of questions.