VP of Engineering

Summary

Join Valdera, a fast-growing company empowering makers, as an experienced engineering leader. You will guide and motivate a team of engineers, driving high-quality product development for enterprise-grade web applications. This role demands strong leadership, technical expertise, and a proven track record of success in a fast-paced environment. You will own engineering processes, technical decision-making, and various stages of the product development lifecycle. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience leading engineering teams, building and maintaining a strong network of engineering talent, and delivering high-quality features for enterprise-grade applications. Valdera offers a competitive compensation package and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• You have experience leading a team (ideally 15+ individuals, and 5+ direct reports)
• You lead by example as a technical leader, are in the details, and develop/write code alongside your team frequently
• You know how to motivate a team to work at the high velocity and throughput required at an early stage company
• You have experience building and cultivating a personal network of top-performing IC engineering talent and closing hires
• You have motivated teams to set ambitious goals and executed towards them (while mitigating anti-patterns like “underpromise-overdeliver”)
• You have an excellent track record of breaking down ambiguous challenges into achievable, stage-appropriate features for our roadmap (and executing that roadmap)
• You are a detail-oriented leader who leads by example and are capable of being in the codebase/in the weeds
• You have experience independently identifying where high priority problems exist based on our business goals and aligning your team towards them
• A long-term history of consistently making excellent technical decisions, delivering high quality features, and upkeeping SLAs for enterprise grade applications
• You confidently think through complex systems and applications that interact with each other to make critical technical decisions
• You can spot when technical decisions will lead to significant long-term instability or refactoring. You can also remediate these decisions with viable alternatives
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, preferred, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of work experience building software solutions
• 5+ years of managing software engineering teams
• Strong examples of your executing product/engineering road-maps to drive business growth and sales
• Strong attention to detail: you are able to juggle, navigate and track multiple projects/requirements at once, while driving them to completion
• A sense of ownership and thoroughness: you proactively plan your own projects, follow up on action items to ensure that no balls are dropped, and meet all critical milestones
• A flexible, can-do attitude: you adapt quickly to a changing environment, pivot quickly,   are excited to try new ways of doing things
• You are excited about playing a role in building and growing a high-growth tech start-up company

Responsibilities

• Motivate engineers to execute with velocity and attention-to-detail as their top priorities
• Recruit, develop and retain a high-performing engineers from your network and from Valdera’s network
• Drive DevOps mentality across the team
• Motivate individuals and teams to set ambitious goals and execute towards them with a get-it-done attitude
• Confidently provide both positive and constructive feedback to your team in real-time
• Ensure Valdera delivers customer needs on track with committed timelines
• Be the lead decisionmaker in engineering design reviews and roll-out plans
• Raise the bar by building and enforcing best-practices across the team (inside and outside of the codebase)
• Ensure engineers arrive at optimal technical decisions for long-term product scalability and resilience to iteration
• Own any technical or non-technical stage of product development lifecycle when needed: idea generation, user interviews, planning, design, prototyping, implementation, testing, iteration, and scaling
• Be embedded within the team, and lead by example (e.g. by delivering features on at least a quarterly basis and pair program with engineers to help problem solve/unblock challenging technical problems)
• Roll-up your sleeves to build feature specifications and translate them into a clear plan of action. For example, you will help engineers break down user stories into clear actionable tasks that they can achieve on a specific timeline
• Continuously monitor development inefficiencies and resolve issues you identify with the appropriate process solutions or technical improvements
• Work with your team to develop a body of technical documentation on technical work/processes that is easily comprehensible to anyone on the team now, and in the future
• Own our software & product compliance processes (vulnerability, pen testing, SOC 2 controls, etc.)
• Own and report engineering/product organization metrics and SLAs (guaranteed availability, bugs, test coverage, TTR etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Early stage tech start-up experience, going from 0-1
• Have built out a team around you before
• Experience in enterprise SaaS for supply chain or logistics

Benefits

• Career growth opportunities
• Competitive compensation
• Equity ownership
• 100% employer paid premiums for Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees
• 50% employer paid premiums on Medical insurance for Dependents
• $100 monthly Wellness Bonus for gym memberships, athletic equipment, massages, etc
• Voluntary Short & Long-term Disability & Supplemental Life Insurance
• 401(k) with traditional & ROTH investment options
• Generous PTO, Sick Leave, & Parental Leave policies
• Free One Medical account for on-demand, virtual primary care appointments for employees who live in a covered area (medical insurance still applies)
• Free 3rd party Health Advocate
• Remote working opportunities
• Annual company trips in fun places with other potential opportunities to spend time in person together throughout the year