Position: R&D Director
Company: Logiq Labs
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Responsibilities: 

• Act as a direct manager for Engineering managers in the group. Hire, train, supervise and motivate EMs, be responsible for their professional development
• Work constantly on explaining to the group’s EMs, Tech Leads and engineers in the group what the current development priorities are, in which direction the company is heading, what are our current customers' needs etc.
• Be responsible for the software development and delivery process, foresee potential risks, analyze critical production issues and involve relevant teams to solve them. 
• Serve as a solution architect for the group’s technical domain: analyze complex features thoroughly from various angles, make final architectural decisions when necessary, ensure all developed solutions are scalable and maintainable for the future
• Spearhead various R&D initiatives to identify opportunities for new features and improvements
• Communicate and collaborate with relevant parties on important feature definitions and priorities 
• Constantly work on optimizing the processes, tools, and standards within the group in order to achieve business goals and timelines with a high degree of confidence and efficiency.

Requirements are :

• 5+ years experience leading high-performing engineering teams, 8+ years of hands-on development experience
• Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep the product, processes, and the engineering teams on track
• Experience designing technical solutions in an enterprise product
• Experience in scaled high availability web systems, CI/CD, web development
• Analytical mind, capable of evaluating and solving various complex problems
• Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience