Vice President of Engineering, LearnUpon

• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams in a high paced scale up environment, with a focus on delivering quality solutions that meet and exceed customers’ expectations, while also mentoring and developing engineering teams in a supportive and collaborative team environment
• Proven experience in leading engineering teams through significant growth phases, while continuing to deliver high-quality products built for scale and flexibility
• Excellent communication skills and a team player with an acute ability to inspire and lead by embracing a supportive leadership approach
• Proven experience in serving and maintaining large-scale web application solutions
• Comfortable researching technologies and having both architectural discussions with engineers and product strategy discussions with our Product team
• Identifying bottlenecks in the SDLC and fine tuning delivery processes is second nature to you
• Acute skill to digest and discuss issues/solutions with team members that may not be familiar with such terminology/technologies
• Strong ability to hire, develop, retain and engage top engineering talent
• Experience managing engineering budgets, resource allocation, and vendor relationships to maximize efficiency - with a track record of making build vs. buy decisions strategically to balance costs and innovation

Desirable

• The VP of Engineering role is based out of our Dublin offices
• The successful candidate will lead our experienced international engineering teams based in Ireland and Serbia
• As a key member of our Executive Team, the VP of Engineering reports into our co-founder and CTO
• The VP of Engineering leads and is responsible for end-to-end engineering delivery, while also empowering and supporting our engineering teams to continuously improve in function and form
• Strategic and tactical leadership and responsibility for the delivery of the LearnUpon product and related technologies
• Collaborate with Product teams to ensure that Engineering requirements are aligned with product roadmaps that scale revenue market opportunities
• Lead distributed cross-functional teams including Product Engineering & Engineering Ops (incl. SRE/Devops)
• Work closely with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to ensure alignment and execution on company-wide initiatives
• Recruit great engineers and managers in collaboration with LearnUpon’s talent teams and support their continued growth and development
• Build and lead a world class Engineering team that delivers great products while having fun working together

• Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:
• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews, and then offered an opportunity to meet with a member of our C-Team
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team