Head of Engineering @ TeamPlus Staffing

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Define, architect, and execute the organizational plan required to fulfill the company's and its clients business and technology strategies.
• Recruit, develop, manage and scale a talented technology team committed to developing innovative solutions aligned with the company's business model, values, and vision.
• Create a strong internal culture to manage technology projects with accurate time estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication with stakeholders.
• Advise and make executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
• Supervise all functional areas of technology including software design and development, enterprise architecture, quality assurance/testing, scalability, UIT and product operations and technical support, network and systems administration, and information security management.
• Design and implement technology information security, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Work in partnership with teams and business and technology leaders in the United States, Europe, Asia, and India.
• Stay on the leading edge of technology.
• Oversee architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
• Be responsible for mentoring and developing front line managers and engineers.
• Become and expert in the business of our Firm and our clients.
• Participate in strategic decisions of the firm and our clients, including advising our clients technology and business leaders, participating as a member of our Firms leadership team, helping our Firm to win new business and expand our reach into our clients enterprise solution needs.
• Conceptualize, lead, and deliver new initiatives for global locations and markets.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for
• assessment and improvement.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field or learning through doing, in either case with success in developing and deployment of successful technology applications and services.
• 10+ years of work experience in software development with at least 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills a must.
• Confidence in taking on challenges with a drive for learning and team success a must.
• Success in developing and deploying full stack commercial solutions a must.
• Experience in building large scale distributed systems. Experience with building search, recommendation systems, production-grade machine learning systems, or other data- driven products or systems with advanced algorithms is a plus.
• Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
• Ability to articulate complex subjects in simple terms to drive team toward completion of the project.
• Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.
• Desired experience with Go, PHP (Laravel), NodeJS
• Hands on experience with Java, Groovy, C#, NodeJS, PL/SQL
• Hands on experience working with CI/CD tools such as Git/SVN, Gradle/Maven, Jenkins  to create, maintain and guide deployment flows.
• Hands on experience with databases and queues:

1. MS SQL
2. MySQL/MariaDB
3. Redis (as cache/database/queue)
4. MongoDB
5. Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS/MessageBus/etc.

• Deep conceptual knowledge of real-time data transfer, large dataset manipulation, data-
• at-rest vs. data-flow.
• Conceptual and practical understanding of AWS, Azure with containerization and execution with VM or Kubernetes. Full knowledge of practical applications of load- balancers, failover, uptime concepts.
• Experience with Networking/Firewall is a plus
• System Administration (Linux, Windows)
• Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience. Engaging and influencing peers and executives.
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.
• Being a strong leader, mentor, and people manager.
• Difference between trend and practical application.

Besides skills we are looking

• Startup and Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Execution oriented.
• Ability to think big.
• Collaborative mindset.

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