Head of Product Engineering

Summary

The job is for the Head of Engineering at Filmhub, a company that provides an online platform for filmmakers to distribute their titles directly to streaming services. The role involves leading the product engineering team, working cross-functionally with other teams, making strategic technical decisions, and driving innovative solutions.

Requirements

• You have 6+ years of engineering experience, including at least two years in leadership, managing engineers, building scrappy teams from scratch, and scaling products
• Experience in Scaling Tech Startups
• Excellent technical acumen
• You are passionate about building a product and business that transforms the film industry
• You're highly motivated by the prospect of assembling and nurturing a high-performing team: identifying and recruiting top talent, fostering a collaborative environment, and developing team members' skills and careers
• You see your purpose as helping each engineer reach their full potential
• You can both ‘lead’ and ‘do.’
• You are ambitious, scrappy, tenacious, and you get things done
• You are comfortable making hard decisions and move quickly
• You are noted as one of the best problem solvers in your organization
• Experience and expertise with modern frontend frameworks (React, NextJS), backend technologies (serverless, SQL)
• Video technologies and tools (FFmpeg, streaming, codecs, CDNs) is a plus
• Infrastructure and operations experience and expertise, preferably both cloud and Jamstack
• Familiarity with core Amazon Web Services products. AWS certification is a bonus

Responsibilities

• Involved in project management: Embrace a hands-on approach to project management by actively involving yourself in both the detailed execution and overarching strategy of our engineering team
• Lead, support, motivate, and recruit a growing group of committed, smart people to do the best work of their careers
• Teach, mentor, coach, and be a role model for engineers and other engineering managers
• Work alongside founders, product design, and product management to scope and plan features
• Maintain high engineering productivity metrics while balancing fast turnarounds with a high level of code quality. Ship often and early
• Conduct and manage code reviews, setting and supervising the quality and style of our codebase
• Lead, but also love to dig deep into code and infra to set patterns and to research and evaluate new tools, technologies, frameworks, and services

Preferred Qualifications

• Embracing Open Source: An active GitHub profile: Who do you follow and star? What do you fork? Do you contribute PRs?
• You adopt modern stacks: less jQuery, Express, Java, Rails → more NextJS, AWS Lambda, ML
• Any tech blog posts you’ve written or blog you maintain
• Making films or music in your free time