Vp Engineering - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
14-01-2017 4:01:16 PM
11-02-2017 4:01:16 PM
VP Engineering
Location: Century City, Cape Town
Salary: R1.3m per annum
Requirements:- 10+ years of Software Engineering experience with progressively increasing responsibilities with at least 5 years in a leading capacity.
- You are comfortable playing a hands-on role in implementing solutions.
- You enjoy mentoring developers through pairing and white boarding sessions.
- You are experienced with test-driven development and modern Agile practices
- You have demonstrated capability in working with cross-functional teams and promote a collaborative, results-focused environment with immediate team members and internal partners.
- You can develop a comprehensive platform performance and scalability strategy while continuously delivering product improvements.
- You can influence key stakeholders, product leadership, etc.
- The role reports to the Director, Technology
Duties:
- Leading the entire engineering (Mobile & Web, Architecture, Software Testing, Data Engineering and Dev. Ops) teams, providing oversight, mentoring, coaching and growing our software development team.
- Responsible for cultivating an incredible engineering culture while guiding technical decision making and infrastructure and feature delivery.
- Help bootstrap the implementation of tactical and strategic initiatives including the implementation of continuous integration, refinement of automated testing and the creation of a deployment pipeline with the goal of supporting multiple deployments a day.
- Provide design and architecture leadership, mentor the team, and institute best practices.
- Develop and mentor upcoming leaders and key engineers.
- Assess project requirements, resources, milestones and specific deliverables to manage the development process.
- Communicate with other management, product managers and technical support specialists on development issues.
- Focus on the implementation of metrics to enable informed decision-making.