Position: CTO/Head of Engineering
Company: Art2Hire
Experience required: 3y
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our Client, a product company with a global team on a service that touches millions of people every day is now looking for a Head of Engineering  to join their team.

Location: Kyiv, UA
Type: Full-time
Start date: ASAP

**About Company:**
Founded in 2010 in Riga (Latvia). 
It's an established product company, still actively developing the functionality and user experience. The top priority is product UX development while iterating the business model for further growth.
So, your work will mostly consist of keeping what works, iterating what can be improved, plus several exciting challenges related to infrastructure and re-engineering.
The company believes every young person should have someone to talk to. So it's developing a global Innovative question and answer platform based on anonymous messaging, which allows people to find new friends and communicate freely. While questions and answers are conversation starters, anonymity is the ice-breaker. 
With over 300 million registrations and 100 million app downloads since 2010, the company has millions of questions, answers, and messages exchanged every day.  

**About the role:**
If what you want to do and what you can do is 

Contribute to a product affecting lives of millions of people;
Lead an amazing technical team with high standards;
Manage and improve a high-load project with its own massive infrastructure;
Forester solving great variety of technical opportunities and challenges;
Be part of a great company culture and shape it yourself; 
Then you might be the perfect match with company!

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to:**
Direct management of a technical team with 15+ team members
Participation in all stages of technical team management: hiring, onboarding, motivation, development, firing
Work with executives and product management to define strategic roadmap and feature delivery
Delivering features using the agile project management methodology
Provide technical vision for both infrastructure and software development departments
Ensuring the necessary speed and quality of development at the highest possible level
Ensuring product availability uptime and high crash-free level.
Requirements:
7+ years of experience in software development
2+ years in a leading position of cross-functional teams (10+ people: Dev, QA, DevOps)
Experienced in Agile development methodologies
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Technical judgment on engineering architecture and product decisions
Excellence in people management and problem-solving
Experienced with AWS (S3, EC2), GitLab, Jenkins, Kubernetes - is preferred
Expertise in creating backend services and working with different kinds of databases - - is preferred
Expertise in native iOS/Android applications development - - is preferred
English - Upper Intermediate+

**The company offers:**
Work with a global brand in a dynamic international company
Flexible working hours
Smooth onboarding and mentor support
The ability to work from the office or remotely
Social guarantees, health insurance, and other benefits
20 - working days paid vacation, paid sick leave, medical insurance
Training, conferences and courses
Compensation of foreign language courses, sports sections, psychologist/coaching consulting