Remote VP of Engineering

We are searching for VP of Engineering that will be responsible for our engineering organization. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the engineering team, you will also be responsible for fostering a strong engineering culture within the company, which includes promoting innovation, collaboration, performance management and continuous learning. You will collaborate very closely with our Product organization.

You will also:

• Have an active part in hiring new stars
• Advocate for effective development practices and help build a great engineering culture within the team and across engineering as a whole
• Maximize the usage of AI in our development and QA process to optimize time from idea to deployment in production
• Keeping up to date with programming languages, frameworks and platforms
• Help the team with prioritization when it comes to tech debt and similar
• Creating, developing and maintaining components, applications and packages for our systems that will facilitate usage, stability and scalability throughout all of DigitalTolks products
• Helping the team set future architecture, technology stack and working process
• Facilitating discussions and debates, both technical and non-technical with your colleagues and peers
  
  

Skills and Qualifications:

We see that the role requires both deep technical expertise (bonus points if you have experience in building an Iron Man suit) on development, DevOps as well as people and process (development methodology) and a understanding of coding practices. You are used to working with SaaS products using microservices at scale in a cloud first environment. Having working experience in an agile way with cross-functional team. You have worked with languages such as ReactNative, Vuejs, Laravel and Serverless. Microservices on AWS. You have worked with different business systems to make sure they will play well together while being able to leverage their individual strengths.

Other qualifications:

• Swedish (preferred but not mandatory!) and English language proficiency
• A proven track record of successfully leading teams and delivering new products, preferably in complex and high transaction environments
• Expertise in managing, developing, sustaining, modifying, improving, testing, training, fielding and retiring systems and system computer resources
• 2-3 years experience working as a manager, leading and developing teams in complex and high transaction environments.
• Having worked with OKRs in a product development environment
• Security architecture (OWASP, encryption, etc.)