Vice President of Engineering
Location: HU, BU, Budapest
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Executive
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Information Technology
Company profile: Based in San Francisco with a development office in Budapest, Hungary, Secret Sauce Partners enables the world's largest ecommerce companies to provide the best shopping experiences online. Our products are branded and built into ecommerce web sites and are actively used by over 40 million users. We are well funded, fun, dynamic and growing fast. Join us!
Description: The Vice President of Engineering is an integral part of the leadership team and will report to the CEO and collaborate with the rest of the executive team. Our products, powered by data science, are integrated into the largest online stores in the US and Europe and provide shopping experiences that revolutionize ecommerce. You will be leading the entire engineering team and ensure they are enabled to succeed. This is your job if you are obsessed with leveraging processes/tools and with shipping high quality products.This is an opportunity for you to directly impact our 40 million users and to ensure their happiness. What you ship is the product they all use and love. This is your chance to leave your legacy!RESPONSIBILITIESFirst and foremost ship a product that our users loveOrganize, lead, and mentor the entire engineering teamCreate and maintain a high standard for development and architecture requirementsEnable the development team to work cross-functionally with Product Management, R&D, QA and OperationsLead by example, assist the team in accomplishing all tasks, and demonstrate ownership and accountability for the entire engineering teamWork with the rest of senior management to build the right culture for our team
Requirements: 10+ years of engineering experience with several years in a management positionExperience growing an engineering team from a small team to 20+ peoplePassion for people and managing teamsPassion for processes and software development methodologiesExcellent written, verbal communication, and interpersonal skillsObsession for the technical performance in every product you shipFearless, creative, and resourceful in solving problemsStrong ability to mentor, coach and teachPassion for successTECHNOLOGY STACKWe believe in using the right tool for the right job instead of a particular set of technologies. Experience with our current stack is useful, but not required.Front End: AngularJS (+ tooling: grunt, bower)API: #URL_968b3a839b798052f33a95a811f8b2366cd66f6bcc98f2885bea5ee47d000659# (express/koa, mongoose), MongoDBAdmin/Back End: Ruby/Rails (activeadmin, sidekiq), PostgreSQLBig Data: Amazon S3/EMR/Redshift, Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Spark, Azkaban)DevOps: GitHub, TravisCI, Heroku, HipChat, Sentry, PagerDuty, New RelicQA: BrowserStack, JIRA, Selenium
Benefits: Be part of a successful startup with phenomenal growth opportunitiesCasual, fun, international teamCompetitive compensation package, flexible vacation daysStock optionsCool downtown office with games, beer, wine and moreDrinks, lunches and dinners with the foundersRELOCATIONWe love people who want to move to Europe or want to move to Budapest within Europe. Our open arms policy is backed up by relocation benefits so we pay for your move.ABOUT USBased in San Francisco with a development office in Budapest, Hungary, Secret Sauce Partners enables the world's largest ecommerce companies to provide the best shopping experiences online. Our products are branded and built into ecommerce web sites and are actively used by over 40 million users. We are well funded, fun, dynamic and growing fast. Join us!
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