Position: Engineering Lead
Company: Very Good Security
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

VGS was founded by highly successful repeat entrepreneurs and is backed by world-class investors like Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, and Visa. We are building an amazing global team spread across four cities. As a young and growing company, we are laser-focused on delighting our customers and hiring talented and entrepreneurial-minded individuals. 

What you get to do:
Utilize both your strong leadership and technical expertise to guide and enable a team of motivated engineers and be a role model for your team.
Ensure that your team is shipping high quality and architecturally-sound software at a cadence that enables the company’s business roadmap. 
Review code and design, and provide technical oversight and guidance to your team.
Recruit, onboard, and retain talented software engineers and provide the team with coaching, career mentorship, and regular guidance.
Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership in defining your team’s roadmap.
Promote an engineering process that encourages continuous delivery and shipping value to customers frequently while maintaining a relentless focus on security.
Have a data-driven approach for running an effective engineering team (e.g. measuring rate of code deploys, time from committing to deploy, MTTR, change failure rate)
Champion and model core VGS values of collaboration, relentless execution, and transparency; in going above and beyond what is required in order to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and promote a fun, inclusive, open work environment.

What you bring to the role:
8+ years of software development experience- ideally in a SaaS/product development company, and 2+ years of experience in a leadership/people management role.
While coding will not be your primary job, you are comfortable pitching in as needed and supporting your team and customers, building production-quality code, and supporting your team’s services in production.
Strong knowledge of the Java ecosystem. Experience with Spring/Spring Boot and Python will be a plus.
Experience with the AWS stack, especially EBT, Kinesis, Lambda, RDS.
Experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, Jenkins.
Experience with modern DevOps practices and especially with Docker. Experience with Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform will be a plus.
An understanding of how to build for scale, but able to make pragmatic choices to move quickly. You have a strong bias for action!
Outcome-oriented, and an understanding that providing business value should be the key focus for engineering teams.
Comfortable working in roles that at times will be customer-facing.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
Experience successfully working with distributed teams across time zones will be a plus.
Advanced English level.

What’s in it for you:
Shoulder-to-shoulder work with the company founders;
Silicon Valley Experience;
3 weeks of paid vacation and 2 weeks of days off+sick leaves;
Hackers’ days;
Corporate retreats;
Paid lunches and parking;
Covering professional learning: conferences, trainings, and other events;
Sports activities compensation;
English Speaking Club with native speakers;
Medical insurance;
VGS stock options.