Technical Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Very Good Ventures as a Technical Delivery Lead and play a critical role in the technical success of our partners and teams. You will ensure our clients receive top-notch technical support, deliver elegant solutions to complex engineering problems, and guarantee software meets VGV's standards. This role requires a seasoned professional with extensive software engineering experience, strong leadership skills, and expertise in enterprise-level development. You will lead teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to build high-quality, scalable software. VGV offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or related field
• 7-10 years of professional experience working as a software engineer in a team environment
• Proven proficiency with mobile development in Flutter, either Android or iOS native and backend technologies (like Firebase, AWS, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with team members and stakeholders
• Must be available to work in U.S. Eastern Time (ET) or Central Time (CT)

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality and performant software solutions at scale and lead the most complex parts of project development
• Consistently solve complex problems with easy-to-understand solutions
• Actively lead scoping and estimating activities, working with all your peers and stakeholders to find a way to deliver high-quality projects on time and within budget
• Position yourself as a team/project leader that is highly trusted by your peers. Feel comfortable leading all aspects of your project, from architecture to feature development, and be a role model for the rest of the engineers on your project
• Ensure that your projects contain easy-to-understand and ready-to-go onboarding materials
• Negotiate timelines and estimations with our stakeholders effectively
• Express yourself with clarity and authority in front of our partners, leading demos, engineering status updates, and other ceremonies
• Advise our colleagues and partners to “build the right thing, the right way”
• Proceed as a thought leader, willing to inspire and share your professional journey and experiences with the team and community activities representing VGV, such as conferences, speaking events, open-source contributions
• Be capable of unblocking the team in times of uncertainty
• Actively participate in code reviews and code pairing sessions, taking this opportunity as a moment to mentor and coach the team, leading with empathy, patience, grace, and gratitude
• Use your creativity and technical ability to make standard and process recommendations to the organization, documenting project decisions
• Cross-collaborate with teammates from other departments to improve the integration of other disciplines with engineering (for example, by bouncing ideas contributing to our OSS tools, or by ideating new and effective ways of integrating design into engineering)

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large or multiple development teams simultaneously is strongly preferred over smaller, startup-focused roles
• Familiarity with enterprise-level platform development, focusing on integrating complex systems, including experience with legacy systems and their integration into modular architectures or microservices
• Significant experience in the discovery phase of projects, including requirements gathering and stakeholder collaboration
• Competence in designing systems with modular architectures and addressing platform core system requirements
• Strong understanding of software development at scale
• Strong understanding of the capabilities of critical third party products, such as Firebase, Auth0, AWS, Google Maps, etc

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance, dental, and vision coverage
• Potential to earn equity in an early stage high-growth company
• Flexible PTO and company holidays
• 12 -16 weeks universal fully paid family leave
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution
• HSA with employer contribution
• Working with a talented, global team on cutting edge projects with well-known clients