Vice President of Software Engineering, Gener8 Ads
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2 days a week in office
Data privacy, control and advertising software
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Data privacy, control and advertising software
21-100 employees
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2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower people to understand, control and be rewarded for their data.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years experience as a software engineer working with native mobile or web technologies
- 3+ years experience in an engineering leadership role with line management responsibilities
- Previous experience at a growing startup
- Track record of delivering high quality products with a measurable impact on the business
- Experience building engaged and high performing teams
- Experience interviewing engineers and assessing technical tasks for applicants
- Experience mentoring and helping level up other engineers
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- British citizenship or a pre-existing right to work in the UK
What the job involves
- We’re growing our engineering team following the commercial success we’ve had this year and to help with that we’re looking for an experienced VP of Engineering. You’ll be reporting to the CTO, helping to guide the strategy, growth and execution of the team
- Mentoring and coaching the senior and lead engineers to grow their technical and soft skills
- Driving observability, reliability, stability and scalability as concepts within the organisation and establishing the metrics, SLAs and OKRs that ensure they’re achieved
- Audit ways of working, technical capabilities, looking for optimisations or overhauls if necessary and leading improvement programmes
- Defining the new roles that will enable the team to execute even faster and more effectively, as well as running the hiring process, from application, offer to onboarding
- Shaping the product and engineering roadmap and seeing initiatives through from conception to delivery while ensuring engineering capacity, sequencing, trade-offs and cross-team alignment are managed at an organisational level
- Owning and evolving the engineering org structure, career framework and performance management processes
- Partnering with the CTO and leadership team on budgeting, headcount planning and long-term technical investments
- On the frontend we’re using React, Next.js and TypeScript. On the backend we use Golang to serve RESTful and gRPC APIs running on Kubernetes. Our mobile apps have been built natively from the ground up using Swift and Kotlin. We use GitHub for version control and CI, Jira for tracking tasks and Slack for sending cat GIFs
- Overseeing and helping define the technical architecture at a strategic level, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term platform evolution
- Providing technical leadership and able to be hands on and in the detail when needed
- Line management, mentoring and coaching the other engineers
- Running the hiring process for new engineers
- Reviewing other engineer’s code, making suggestions and using them as teaching opportunities for more advanced techniques
- Spotting the gaps in technical capabilities or resources and filling them at the right time
- Working closely with the product, marketing and sales teams to bring their visions to life while balancing innovation, delivery velocity, technical debt and platform sustainability
- Owning engineering delivery performance: throughput, predictability, quality and operational excellence
- Championing a strong engineering culture, values and ways of working as the organisation scales
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Gener8 Ads is trying to simultaneously give companies and media agencies access to better advertising leads, while giving public users more control over – and the chance to profit from – their own data.
The company offers internet users a range of products including a browser, app an and existing browser extension, in which they can elect to share their anonymised data in return for redeemable rewards or simply browse in total privacy. The appeal for advertisers is the promise of a more personal approach, reaching only those who would be interested in their products.
Amidst all the noise surrounding data privacy, Gener8’s solution is a clever one. Indeed, the company gained immense traction after an appearance on BBC’s Dragons’ Den which went viral, and was hailed the show’s best ever pitch. Unsurprisingly, the TV appearance led to a successful funding round, which helped the company to accelerate growth. Further funds have also been secured that have supported the launch of Gener8's app as it looks to disrupt the big tech giants.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$2.7m
ANGEL
Mar 2023
$6.8m
ANGEL
Total funding: $12.3m
Company benefits
- Your choice of computer hardware
- Annual training and conference budget
- Regular team days out
Company HQ
Covent Garden, London, UK
Leadership
Sam Jones
(Founder & CEO)Sam spent 7 years at Red Bull including a spell as Global Brand Manager. Prior to this, they founded nightclub promotional company 212 and nightclub ticketing app Hit The Town.
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