Role overview
Position Summary
Crystal is seeking a forward-thinking VP of Engineering to lead its global software development team and expand the reach of the fastest growing blockchain analytics organisation.
As a key member of the Crystal’s senior management team, the VP of Engineering sets direction for SW development strategy, establishes key performance indicators to measure success and ensures alignment of all Crystal SW development operations globally.
What you'll work on
- Grow and manage a world-class engineering team in a fast growing, deeply technical, successful scale-up.
- Find, inspire, motivate and retain top engineering talent.
- Develop secure and high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
- Drive decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
- Work closely with product managers to ensure we deliver best-in-class products and overcome technical barriers.
- Develop standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent. Create quarterly OKRs for the division.
- Clearly communicate technical challenges, roadmaps, priorities, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from engineers to product managers, growth teams, and executive teams.
- Be hands-on: establish best practice through leading by example.
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.
- Extensive experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Experience in incident management and prevention – lessons learned and a best practice approach with proven results.
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, optimisation) and Software Engineering (OOP, design, architecture, etc).
- Experience in software development using Python.
- Solid knowledge of SQL, database design and query optimisation.
- Experience building ETL processes and APIs, continuous integration tools.
- Experience with container tools and orchestration systems (docker, kubernetes).
- Experience in the development of big data, micro-services and distributed systems.
- Extensive experience designing and developing software with a proven track record on SDLC work and best development practices.
- Experience in financial and resource planning.
- Exceptional communication skills, customer focus and necessary expertise in formal and informal testing techniques as well as quality measurement.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate an educate cross-functional teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Experience in agile/scrum methodology.
Tags & focus areas
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