Head of Engineering
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CA and US only
ApprovalMax
Job Description
Location: Remote
Time Zone: Central European Time +/- 3 hours
ApprovalMax is a company developing cloud services for the needs of automating financial and accounting systems. We have a distributed team of professionals: we work from Germany, the UK, and US. Our clients are located all over the world in English-speaking countries. The company is successfully developing and is a rapidly growing B2B business.
As part of the product team development strategy, we are looking for a Head of Engineering to join our development team.
Main responsibilities:
1. Leadership and Supervision
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The Head of Engineering oversees both Frontend and Backend development and the QA teams and directly reports to the Chief Technology Officer..
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Their primary responsibility is to drive the vision, design, and implementation of integrated systems that support the business strategy.
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They collaborate with other business departments (product, sales, marketing, finance) to roll out new web systems and improve existing ones.
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People management skills are crucial as they manage day-to-day activities, staffing, mentoring, and resource allocation within the engineering department.
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Mentoring key engineering personnel ensures continuity and professional growth.
2. Technical Strategy and Execution
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The Head of Engineering plays a pivotal role in planning, managing, executing, and implementing software projects and processes.
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They oversee project management, scope, issue and risk management, and regular status reporting.
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They ensure optimal resource allocation to meet product development requirements and implement agile processes.
3. Balancing Quality and Speed
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The Head of Engineering tackles high-level challenges while ensuring both quality software and speed of delivery.
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They play a critical role in feature deployment, platform stability, and overall software architecture quality.
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Organizing the team activities related to architecture, development of new functionality (backend), Refactoring of old code (if necessary), environment support, correction of defects
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Interaction with product managers and technical support on the provision of information about the functionality and support of the product.
Requirements
Main requirements:
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Experience in building and managing teams for developing cloud solutions
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Knowledge of OOP, DDD, Microservices, stateless/serverless
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Proven previous experience as a .Net developer
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Excellent knowledge of our core technology stack: C# 10, .net 6, WebAPI, DI (Autofac), Azure stack: Queues, App Services, App Functions/Web jobs. Cosmos/MongoDB, MSSQL, EF Core
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Knowledge of the frontend stack would be a plus: single page applications, react, react-redux, TypeScript
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Experience with tools and acceptance of the "continuous delivery" philosophy (build systems TeamCity/Octopus, incident tracking, auto tests, logging/monitoring/alerts, etc.)
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Oversee any potential security risks related to software development
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Ability to work in a team, independence, attention to detail
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Proficiency in English language
What we offer:
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Regular performance-based compensation reviews
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100% paid 20 business vacation days
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100% paid 10 sick leave days
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Flexible hours
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Remote work
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Health & Wellness program - a bonus payment, which will cover 50% up to a total of 500 Euro annually of the amount spent on the following activities: medical services (except regular health insurance), fitness, sports activities (excluding sports equipment), stress management, body massage, weight management, yoga, traveling, etc.
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Reimbursement of co-working space
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Reimbursement of professional development courses
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Service years recognition financial reward
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About the job
Feb 22, 2024
Full-time