Hybrid VP Software Engineering

at Timescapes

• Job title: VP Software Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Parnell, New Zealand

About the role

• VP of Software Engineering leading a team at Timescapes, a visual progress tracking solution for construction projects. Responsible for engineering management, delivery, R&D guidance, and infosec.

Responsibilities

• Engineering management: managing a group of talented engineers across the front end, back end and machine learning disciplines. This will also involve supporting the team with respect to career development, and hiring new roles as Timescapes expands into new regions.
• Delivery & execution: introducing more discipline to the way the team plans and executes work. Proactively identifying risks with respect to delivering the product roadmap and quarterly objectives. Getting on the tools if required to help unblock or accelerate the team. Building strong relationships with Product, Design and other functions within the business.
• R&D guidance: a focus on ensuring our ML + data science efforts are both effective and scalable. Working with Product to frame up experimentation paths for higher-risk investments, and levelling up our ML infrastructure.
• Infosec: up we grow to a point where we can hire a dedicated infosec professional, this role would own key responsibilities around application security, network security, access controls, incident response and compliance (e.g. SOC2, GDPR, ISO etc.).

Requirements

• Value-oriented: we’re focussed on ensuring that Timescapes as a business gets genuine value from engineering investments. You’ll be someone who sees methodologies, best practices and patterns as useful tools, but you don’t blindly adopt them and never let them get in the way of great customer outcomes.
• Obsessed with the “why”: you’re someone who cares about the details, and you take pride in sharing your rationale for every decision you make. You question things that don’t make sense, and you expect others to do the same.
• All about the editing: when it comes to great solutions, we don’t believe you generally nail it on the first attempt. You’re someone who’s not afraid to leave a lot of ideas on the cutting room floor, and you intuitively understand that the first release is just the beginning.
• Adaptable and creative: as a small company doing ambitious things, we don’t always have the right answer, and we know that what’s worked in the past may not work in the future, but we’re not deterred by the unknown, and we’re excited about trying new things and finding our way through.
• Communication matters: in addition to communicating clearly and succinctly, you’re also a natural relationship-builder, and you’re equally comfortable on Slack/email, video calls and in person.
• Startup / scale-up experience: you’ve experienced the chaos of startups, juggled lots of competing priorities and you’ve rebuilt unscalable processes.
• Team structure: you’ve been responsible for creating / driving the engineering structure within an organisation, especially as the company has grown from its earliest single-team form.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity package
• Health insurance
• 5% kiwisaver contribution
• EAP & wellbeing support