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VP of Engineering

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Location
Remote
Base Salary
250k USD
minware

Job Description

About minware

minware provides development observability software that helps engineering organizations gain full visibility into their software development process to improve predictability, efficiency, and more.

Kevin Borders founded minware after bootstrapping his previous company to $86m in revenue and selling in 2021, with the idea of helping others benefit from lessons learned growing an engineering team from 0 to 40.

minware is a self-funded seed-stage company. After promising initial customer traction, we are looking for people who share our values to help bring minware to a larger audience.

The Role

As an early VP, you will have the unique opportunity to work directly with minware’s founders and engineers to build the product and define the company’s culture. We are looking for someone who has strong interpersonal skills, high empathy, and a solid understanding of our product domain – software development analytics.

We are seeking an ambitious and nice engineering leader who has experience managing managers on a happy and productive engineering team. As a purveyor of developer productivity software, we are diligent about process efficiency and code quality. Though we are small, we try to avoid unnecessarily creating technical debt and are looking for someone who can lead us toward this goal.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Manage managers and engineers building minware’s software.
  • Work with product leaders to define minware’s roadmap and product strategy.
  • Have ultimate responsibility for minware’s reliability, availability, performance, quality, and security.
  • Oversee minware’s software architecture and backlog of quality, technical debt, and other engineering-led improvement areas.
  • Coach managers and engineers to provide career development.
  • Lead hiring strategy and execution for minware’s engineering team.

Qualifications

  • Previous experience managing other managers building modern full-stack applications, including both application
  • Experience leading DevOps and security functions
  • Experience analyzing and reporting data related to engineering team productivity and delivery
  • Strong communication skills and high empathy for interfacing with non-technical stakeholders and occasionally with customers
  • Well-versed in agile or lean planning and project management processes
  • Start-up experience building an engineering organization from scratch for a B2B SaaS product is highly desired

Benefits and Perks

  • Competitive base salary, bonus, and seed-stage equity compensation
  • 100% remote work, flexible hours, and unlimited vacation policy. (Read here about how we built trust in our previous all-remote company.)
  • Full health care premium coverage for you and your family
  • Unique career development guidance reporting working on a small team.

We offer competitive compensation packages along with stock options based on industry benchmarks for function, and level. Offer amounts are determined by multiple factors such as a candidate's experience and expertise.

Base Compensation:$210,000—$250,000 USD

Advice from our career coach

A successful applicant for the VP role at minware should understand the company's focus on development observability software and the importance of software development analytics in improving efficiency and predictability. To stand out as an applicant, it is crucial to showcase strong interpersonal skills, empathy, and a solid understanding of the product domain. Here are some specific tips to help candidates standout:

  • Highlight experience managing managers in building modern full-stack applications.
  • Show expertise in leading DevOps and security functions to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of software development.
  • Demonstrate experience in analyzing and reporting data related to engineering team productivity and delivery to showcase analytical skills.
  • Emphasize strong communication skills and a high level of empathy for interfacing with non-technical stakeholders and customers.
  • Illustrate familiarity with agile or lean planning and project management processes to highlight proficiency in efficient software development practices.
  • Highlight any startup experience in building an engineering organization from scratch for a B2B SaaS product as this is highly desired by minware.

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