Vice President of Engineering

Umbel is a Customer Data Platform that empowers marketers to unify and access their own customer data.

- Manage, coach, and mentor a rapidly growing team of 15+ front end, back end, and integrations engineers - Successfully scale our team, which is set to more than double over the next 9 months - Lead our Engineering recruiting charge by acting as an evangelist and improving the hiring processes - Be a cultural leader for our Engineering team - Work with our Chief Data Scientist to achieve groundbreaking R&D and architectural improvements - Oversee and execute multiple projects across the entire stack while maintaining stability, quality, and scalability - Work closely with our Product team to manage and prioritize requirements, balancing short-term and long-term needs effectively - Hone our agile development methodologies and team throughput - Drive technical performance improvements - Be the voice of Engineering and communicate to the entire company - Be a leader in the company and a voice for key executive level decisions on behalf of Engineering - Willingness to roll up your sleeves and even commit code when necessary is a plus

- Be a full-stack engineering master: Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Celery, Salt, Python, Django, Go, ElasticSearch, React - 10+ years of engineering experience, 5+ years in management - A track record of scaling and managing successful teams including hiring, on-boarding, process refinement, and professional development - A track record of implementing automatic testing and delivering exceptional quality in a high reliability environment - The ability to think strategically and align with the overall business objectives and goals of Umbel - A track record as a strong individual contributor