Position: VP Engineering
Company: Openware
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

**Main required skills:**

Engineering or similar degree.
Strong organizational leadership skills.
Extensive experience in working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to develop quality teams.
Experience in recruiting engineers and contributors.
Previous working experience in software design and developing customer-orientated platforms.
Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
Must be knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.

**Essential responsibilities: **

Establishing SDLC and development processes that match the business needs and support a predictable delivery of SW components and features.
Creating and maintaining a clear and informative status reporting to the CEO and CTO.
Enabling scalability and further growth of the SW development department by introducing measures such as newcomers’ onboarding framework, mentorship programs, management structure, deputy structure, etc. 
Forming a middle management layer capable of getting things done without a need for constant control.
Responsible for the quality of the software solutions by establishing/maintaining a proper test strategy and QA processes.
Being responsible for hiring/firing, personal development plans, and motivating the team members to achieve the maximum possible productivity of the department. Ensuring the team is working effectively and efficiently in the remote mode.
Cooperating with the company stakeholders (CEO, CTO, COO, Product, Customer Support) to identify the business needs and define strategic and short-term goals. 
Defining a single priority queue to make the prioritization process evident and straightforward for all the involved parties.
Preparing and optimizing budgets.

**What we offer:**

Friendly team atmosphere.
Career and professional growth.
Mentoring and support from all colleagues.
Long-term employment with periodical salary review based on the performance results.
Exciting new technologies to learn.
Full medical insurance.
Temporarily all our team is working remotely, but we have several co-working spaces we will use on occasion.