Position: VP of Engineering
Company: SyncWords
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Note: This position is fully remote during the period of war in Ukraine. 
We will resume our Kyiv office operation once there is no more russian threat.
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Be engaged in media innovations and change the world of subtitles and dubs with disrupting AI Tech.

Since 2012 SyncWords has been a successful highly qualified team of professionals with NO corporate hustle, micromanagement, and old-fashioned hierarchy. Among our customers are Microsoft, Lionbridge, CBS, Kaltura, Warner Bros., and other industry giants. Pandemic made us even more robust and created new business opportunities. So now we are looking for an Engineering Leader to join our team.

**Our Mission**
To make media and events accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.
Dominate the localization industry by applying machine learning solutions.

**Your Role**
As a VP of Engineering in SyncWords, you will be leading our dev team of 15+ professionals and collaborating with the product management, hiring engineers, making sure our engineering organization is successful and efficiently operating. 

Ultimately, as a top-notch VP of engineering you should have prior organizational leadership experience, be able to problem-solve with no drama and have great tech skills.

**Responsibilities:**

- Demonstrate very strong technical leadership and people management skills including solid communication and analytical skills with a thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution
- Be responsible for building a world-class software development team
- Design and execute on a well thought out strategy for best in class software engineering practices
- Be the engine room of Delivery for applications and services end
Influence decision making through an active partnership with cross-functional teams
- Coach, mentor and lead a diverse group of software engineers
- Work with the Product Owners to understand market needs and vision; quickly translate that vision into demonstrable software
- Quickly define and deliver working software prototypes
- Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
- Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining and support activities
- Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
- Effectively manage a people business pushing high utilisation of all resources

**Your experience:**

- 8+ years in Engineering or Technology roles
- 3+ years of hands-on technical management experience at a rapidly scaling company
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages, DevOps toolchains, cloud infrastructure
- Have delivered several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
- Able to assess and report technical debt, compliance, and other risks
- Experienced with architecture, design and implementation of APIs

**Join the SyncWords team and you can expect:**

- A job on the frontline of a fast-growing tech vertical
- Products that REALLY matter!
- Experienced colleagues who are ready to share knowledge
- A fantastic culture - open communication, great work/life balance, a high performance, and friendly work environment
- Clear assignment of tasks
- We hire for the long term!
- Flexible schedule 
- Competitive salary
- Paid vacation/sick time, paid holidays
- Terrific benefits - fresh fruit, snacks, coffee, tea and lunch is supplied daily
- Corporate parties, trips to the mountains and the sea
- Stock options and cash bonuses
- Allowance for professional development and more!
- A spacious penthouse office located in a great neighborhood of Kyiv, 10-min walk from Polytechnic metro station, with an amazing view and terrace with bbq.