VP Engineering

  • Engineering
  • Full time
  • 4 years ago
  • United States ,San Francisco

Job Information

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    Salary USD - US Dollar 15,000 - 20,000 / Monthly
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    Shift Normal
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    Number of vacancies* 2 openings
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    Job level* Executive
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    Job experience* 3+ years
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    Job qualification* B.C.A - Bachelor of Computer Application

Job Description

Description

Our mission is to help readers find and share the books they love. And, with over 95MM members, Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Avid and casual readers can discover their next favorite book by seeing what friends and influencers are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine.

Responsibilities

  • Work with our CEO and executive team to set strategy and culture for the company
  • Manage a multi-layered engineering team of about 60 people, including Software Development Managers, Technical Program Managers, QA, and Software Development Engineers
  • Set the technical vision and define/drive engineering goals for the company
  • Participate in architecture discussions and planning with Principal Engineers and development teams
  • Foster a culture of regular communication, transparency and accountability within your teams and beyond
  • In partnership with senior leaders in Product and Design, manage overall roadmap, execution and delivery of product
  • Hire and develop a world-class engineering team; coach and mentor managers and individual contributors
  • Drive process improvement for your teams to innovate, execute, interact and communicate more effectively
  • Interface with partner teams across Amazon using Goodreads functionality, such as Kindle and Alexa
  • Oversee yearly infrastructure, team and software budgets

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
  • 7+ years’ experience managing software development
  • 3+ years leading managers
  • 7+ years as a software engineer responsible for architecture and technical design
  • Experience leading an engineering organization of 40+
  • Successfully delivered large, scalable, service-oriented, customer-facing web and mobile applications
  • Proven project planning skills coordinating across multiple teams (product, design, business) with internal & external stakeholders
  • Experience building and operating high scale services in Java (or equivalent language)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AWS and designing high-scalability fault-tolerant applications on it.
  • Experience with React and/or Next.JS
  • Experience with MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcache, Redis, and other data layer solutions.
  • Experience using Machine Learning to personalize customer recommendations or extract insights.
  • You identify the need for new processes and process improvements (including where process doesn’t yet exist) and guide leaders to make smart decisions
  • You have an excellent program management background across diverse projects
  • You are passionate about Goodreads’ customers and products
  • You are data driven and use data to support your ideas, drive actionable outcomes, and identify opportunities for partnerships across Amazon
  • You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit
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