Position: VP of engineering
Company: Don't Panic Recruitment
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Who you are:**

- You should be an experienced leader with strong abilities in fostering collaboration between the tech team and key business functions to deliver quality solutions. 
- You must be excellent at managing multiple projects, approaching them pragmatically, working fast, and delivering to deadlines, taking account of risk. 
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable with rapid development and deployment.
- We have a growing technology team in multiple locations, so it is vital you are expertly skilled in recruiting, training, and retaining elite technologists globally. 
- You will be naturally open-minded, grasping new ideas quickly and communicating them excellently. 
- You have intellectual curiosity and will seamlessly liaise with other business functions to add value above and beyond just delivering on requested requirements. 
- You will be hands-on and results-oriented with a commercial mindset, aiming to understand what adds the most value to the business.

**Requirements:**

- Exceptional architectural and programming skills.
- Ability to communicate concisely and calmly in a high-pressure environment.
- Have an understanding of or willingness to learn our domain.
- Previous experience with both SaaS systems and on-premise installations is a plus.
- Fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, and English.

**What you will do:**
- Setting a vision for technology and how it will be used in the company, and responsible for ensuring that the product vision is realized.
- Contribute to business strategy and be an example of the company culture.
- Responsible for architecting, maintaining, and evolving our current technology.
- Eliciting feedback from stakeholders and using it to make improvements to our technology.
- Ensuring there is an exceptional and responsive service to key customers.
- Gain a deep understanding of our current system, its relationships with third-party systems, and the overall domain.
- Be able to specify and develop concepts and give direction to your team.
- An excellent communicator and collaborator, both internally to your team and across the wider business.
- Responsible for development and deployment methodologies, coding standards, and testing.