Head Of Engineering
Published on Jan 15, 2020
DataRoot Labs
A Product company founded in 2016 with offices in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Project:
AWS
C++
Computer Vision
Python
Overview Project & team DataRoot Labs is looking for a Head of Engineering! Our client is a Silicon Valley startup working on making the world a safer place. Their AI’s Gun Detection System Technology detects weapons before they go off. Powered by Artificial Intelligence, the solution analyzes multiple data points in real-time to help detect crimes faster and more accurately than legacy systems that only rely on humans.
In this role, you will be leading, mentoring, and inspiring a distributed engineering team to perform at a high level and deliver world-class products. You will work directly with the founding team to take the company from the early stages to a mature enterprise and beyond. Our ideal candidate is a detail-oriented leader who has exceptional organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
What You Will Do Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a distributed engineering team to perform at a high level and deliver world-class products.
- Design and execute processes for workflow and standards.
- Collaborate with the product team to understand and translate requirements, ensuring specifications and architecture design meet broader technical strategic goals.
- Manage project milestones, progress, and issues.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team members.
- Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.
- Recruit, develop, and scale a talented AI technology team committed to developing innovative AI solutions aligned with the company’s business model, client needs, values, and vision.
- Implement an effective organizational structure that balances process, accountability, and scalability with product velocity and innovation as the company continues to scale.
What You Should Bring Must-have
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of relevant technical experience.
- 8+ years directly managing and building high performing engineering teams.
- Experience taking a company from the early stages all the way through an IPO and beyond.
- Track record of solving complex problems, designing creative strategies, and delivering significant impact as a manager and a leader.
- Experience managing successful engineering teams (remote-based is a must) including hiring/terminations and performance management.
- Ability to prioritize and manage across multiple, often time-sensitive initiatives.
- Exceptional organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
- Capable of technical deep-dives into code, pair programming, networking, operating systems, and server infrastructure.
- Ability to apply non-standard approaches.
- Fluent English.
Nice-to-have
- Master's degree in business administration.
- Understanding of most AWS products & architecture, Bare metal servers, load balancers, AI hardware.
- Experience with ML/AI with an ability to lead data-scientists to prioritize and address problems.
- Experience with building a consumer web app and mobile app that has an AI/ML component incorporated as part of the tech stack.
- Experience with TDD, BDD, integration tests, unit tests, GUI tests for continuous integration.
- Experience with creating semi-automated test pipelines for AI/ML including reporting of metrics including but not limited to accuracy, performance, true positives, false positives, true negatives, false negatives, precision, and recall.
- Experience with continuous delivery and continuous deployment using GitLab CI, Jenkins, and either AWX, Ansible Tower or equivalent.
What You Will Get Benefits
- Exciting opportunity to lead a fast-growing and brainy engineering team.
- Opportunity to be part of the big story that shapes the future and is already changing the present.
- Rapid personal development through challenging meaningful work.
- Business trips to the USA.
- Office near the Universytet metro station.
Location Dmytrivska Street, 80, Kyiv, Ukraine
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