Position: CTO / Director of Engineering
Company: ScrumLaunch
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Role:**

In this role, you will join our Senior Leadership team and oversee the entirety of our software engineering function - working strategically and cross-functionally to translate our company vision and strategy into engineering strategies that enable us to achieve our purpose at scale. In partnership with our Director of Product, you will be responsible for strengthening our agile practices, making them uniform, and increasing throughput. And, as a rapidly growing company, you will also be responsible for hiring and onboarding software engineers (with the help of our People team).

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the Software Engineering teams at the project that are building our platform, our mobile app, our public and private APIs, and third-party integrations Deliver quality software on time. Ensure we hit our aggressive goals to rapidly introduce new digital products, expand our customer-base, and provide the best experience possible in a hybrid in-person and on-line world;
- Refine, teach, and optimize Agile Development practices across all of Product + Tech;
- Work closely with our Product team to allocate resources to our company priorities;
- Hire and mentor an expanding team of software engineers - both U.S. and abroad.

**Requirements:**

- Proven leadership abilities, including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness;
- Excellent communicator and collaborator; able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences;
- Extensive experience scaling a SaaS software engineering team and a product development process;
- Experience with web and mobile development, particularly ReactJS, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Angular/Ionic;
- Experience working and managing engineers abroad (3rd party and in-house);
- Experience working at a fast-paced startup or small company;
- Experience in a start-up environment or can demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach in prior roles;
- Ability to effectively manage competing priorities, within the product and within your own work;
- Outstanding problem-solving abilities; you love to cut a Gordian knot;
- Comfortable working remotely;
- Relentlessly focused on delivery and understanding the value of getting MVPs and products out the door, so we can learn and modify as we go along;
- Doesn’t allow obstacles to deflect or deter;
- Must be entrepreneurial.

**Nice to Haves:**

- Interest and/or experience in athletics;
- Experience with SOC 2 processes.

**We offer:**

- Opportunity to grow as an expert;
- Regular results-based salary review;
- Flexible working conditions;
- 24 days of paid vacation (working days);
- 10 sick days;
- Friendly and open-minded team;
- English classes.