A versatile and experienced hands on Head of Engineering who can move easily between front and backend to get the job done
Accountable and take ownership of your work from start-to-finish
Passionate about product and the impact your code has on end customers
You enjoy collaboration with product, design and commercial colleagues in a cross-functional product team
Excellent communication skills: you’re good at explaining complex problems to your colleagues and customers
*Technology Strategy:* Develop and implement a comprehensive technology strategy that aligns with our business goals and drives innovation in the Web3 space.
*Leadership:* Lead and mentor a small team of engineers to foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.
*Product Development:* Oversee the design, development, and deployment of our SaaS platform, ensuring it meets the highest standards of quality, scalability, and security.
*Blockchain Integration:* Drive the integration of blockchain technologies into our platform, including NFTs, smart contracts, decentralized applications (dApps), and tokenization. You will be familiar with Ethereum, Polygon, Base and Ordinals.
*Security and Compliance:* Ensure the security and compliance of our technology infrastructure, dev ops, data protection, data storage and encryption.
*Stakeholder Collaboration:* Work closely with the CEO and product engineers to build a collaborative workplace ensuring technology initiatives align with business objectives.
*Innovation:* Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our business and driving their adoption where appropriate.
*Management:* Manage the engineering team and ensure an efficient allocation of resources and cost-effective solutions.
*Experience:* Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology leadership roles, with a focus on SaaS platforms and blockchain technologies using frameworks like React, Vue or Ember and a variety of modern languages like Javascript, Typescript, Solidity C#, Java or Kotlin. Experience creating backends with technologies such as Next.js, Spring, express, etc.
*Education:* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
*Technical Expertise:* Great experience building complex systems, ideally in a SaaS context. In-depth knowledge of blockchain technologies, smart contracts, decentralized applications (dApps), and related Web3 protocols. Familiarity integrating with APIs, Shopify and third-party services and understanding the potential pitfalls. Familiarity with cloud providers such as AWS.
*Leadership Skills:* Proven experience in leading and managing high-performing technology teams.
*Strategic Vision:* Ability to develop and execute a technology strategy that aligns with business goals and drives innovation.
*Communication:* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
*Problem-Solving:* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex technical challenges. Experience with different testing approaches such as unit, end to end, UI testing with Cypress/Selenium Cloud environments (Heroku, AWS or Google Cloud) and build automation (Docker, CI/CD, alerting, monitoring)
*Adaptability:* Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment and adapt to changing priorities.