Position: Head of Engineering
Company: Ask.fm
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

With over 300 million registrations and 100 million app downloads since 2010, **ASKfm** havs millions of questions, answers and messages exchanged every single day.

**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 we might be the perfect match! 

**Requirements:**
●  5+ 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;
●  upper-Intermediate spoken and written English;
●  university degree.

**Preferred:**
●  experienced with AWS (S3, EC2), Gitlab, Jenkins, Kubernetes
●  expertise in creating backend services and working with different kinds of databases;
●  expertise in native iOS/Android applications development.

**Responsibilities:**
●  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.

**Company offers:**
●  comfortable office in the heart of Kiev or remote;
●  competitive income related to USD rate;
●  oppportunities for professional development and personal growth;
●  50% costs compensation for sports and language courses;
●  corporate medical insurance (50% costs compensation);
●  attending conferences at the expense of the company;
●  paid vacation and paid sick leave.