Survatra is hiring a
VP, Engineering

Summary

The job description is for the VP of Engineering position at Upwave, a leading analytics software platform for brand advertising. The role involves leading the engineering team, refining the product roadmap, setting high standards for engineering excellence, mentoring the team, driving continuous improvement in software development lifecycle, exploring creative ways to use Generative AI, growing the team by recruiting exceptional engineers, acting as a cultural steward, and demonstrating an ownership mentality.

Requirements

• You are a seasoned leader with a track record of managing high-performing teams to deliver valuable, production-grade SaaS and/or enterprise software at scale
• You are a curious and pragmatic technologist who enjoys digging into complex systems to understand them at both a high level and deep in the details
• You are a systems thinker who has the awareness and finesse to drive change in human organizations while caring for the individuals involved
• You are an excellent communicator. You know that what matters is what they heard, not what you said
• You understand that alignment requires constant maintenance and investment, and you put in the work to align stakeholders and your team
• You practice compassionate, empathetic, effective, and non-violent communication
• You’re humble. You understand you’re here to make the team successful, not to tell people what to do

Responsibilities

• Lead our entire software engineering team and development process
• Oversee our codebase, cloud infrastructure, and our talented team of cross-functional engineers
• Partner closely with our CTO and product leadership to refine the product roadmap and bring it to life
• Set a high bar for engineering excellence and craftsmanship
• Inspire the team to do their best work and grow their skills through hands-on career development, intentional challenges, clear expectations, and recognition
• Drive continuous improvement of our software development lifecycle and engineering processes to optimize our velocity, quality and team health and happiness
• Grow our team by recruiting a diverse set of exceptional talented engineers
• Act as a cultural steward, and set a consistently positive example of healthy, effective, inclusive Upwaver behavior

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong command of architectural patterns and engineering practices for building cloud-native, data-intensive applications
• Familiarity with modern web stacks such as React on the frontend, JVM languages like Java, Kotlin, or Groovy on the backend, and Python for AI/ML
• Exposure to adtech/martech ecosystem, marketing measurement approaches (e.g. media mix modeling, attribution), and analytical methods like causal inference and ML

Benefits

• Work with modern tech like cloud data pipelines, in-production generative AI, and causal ML to solve cutting-edge problems at the intersection of adtech, data science and SaaS
• Be part of an engineering-first culture that values efficiency and life-work harmony over sheer hours spent in the codebase
• Enjoy the flexibility and diversity of a fully remote (but time-zone aligned) team spanning multiple countries and continents
• Earn a competitive compensation package with strong equity upside in a growing startup