Head of Engineering, Ridepanda
$135.00 - $185.00 per hour + Equity
Online marketplace for electric bikes, scooters, and mopeds
Open for applications
Online marketplace for electric bikes, scooters, and mopeds
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$135.00 - $185.00 per hour + Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make city life more efficient, happy, and connected, all while being environmentally friendly.
Role
Who you are
- 10 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams
- Strong technical expertise in web application development, preferably with experience in our technology stack (Ruby, Rails, Typescript, React, Google Cloud)
- Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic decision-making
- Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies and experience implementing them in engineering teams
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across diverse teams
- Passion for sustainable transportation and commitment to our mission of transforming urban mobility
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced, talented, and driven Head of Engineering to join our team
- This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of sustainable transportation and help us build a world-class engineering organization
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for our global engineering team, ensuring alignment with company objectives
- Collaborate closely with the founders and product team to define, plan, and execute product development roadmaps
- Foster a culture of excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation within the engineering team
- Manage and mentor a team of remote engineers, promoting collaboration, professional growth, and work-life balance
- Drive engineering best practices, including iterative improvement of features and processes, code quality, testing, and performance optimization
- Be hands-on with the codebase, performing code reviews and contributing to the development of key features and architectural improvements
- Partner with the founders to recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders across the organization, providing regular updates on project progress and technical direction
Our take
Two-wheel electronic vehicles have gone through an explosion recently, with hundreds of different varieties in each category available in the marketplace. While the benefits of electronic light vehicles are obvious - convenience, low running costs, environmentally friendly - it can be difficult for anyone to find the right one for them. Ridepanda, a company of self-described e-ride evangelists, aims to be a one-stop shop to help anyone find and purchase their ideal ride.
As the first online marketplace for micro-mobility, Ridepanda competes mostly against general marketplaces like Amazon and Facebook Marketplace, and against manufacturers' own e-commerce offerings. However with founders from Lime, Bird and Scoot, the company is experienced in the market and able to curate a wider range of vehicles and effectively target customers. Additionally it offers a range of support services such as assembly instructions, maintenance tips, repair assistance, and insurance, which are typically offered on a case-by-case basis if at all by competitors.
Ridepanda is focused on the US market for now, particularly in large urban centres, though it has eventual goals to expand. It is also planning a subscription service in the future, tapping into additional markets as demand for electric vehicles continues to grow.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2023
$3.8m
SEED
Jul 2021
$3.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $7.5m
Company benefits
- Vision and dental
- Cash bonuses
- Electric vehicles discounts
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Wonderful user experiences
- Sustainability
- Physical safety on the streets
- Emotional safety in the workplace
Company HQ
Polk Gulch, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Chinmay Malaviya
(CEO)Having studied at the Haas School of Business, they worked at AIESEC International and INSA Lyon, before co-founding foodpanda in October 2012. They worked at Delivery Hero and Lime for almost 4 years before co-founding Ridepanda in January 2020.
Charlie Depman
(CTO)Was a software engineer at Bird and Backend Technical Lead at Scoot Networks.
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