Head of Engineering - Stealth Consumer Storage Startup

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The Next Horizon of Consumer Storage Innovation
BCG Digital Ventures is an ever-growing global team of entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, venture architects, product experts and investors. We invent, build and invest in startups with the world’s most influential companies. The business ventures we create build strategic advantages for some of the most important global companies and help them own the next horizon of innovation.
 
We are getting ready to launch and scale a stealth consumer storage startup, ready to transform the self-storage industry. Financially backed by a Fortune 1000 company, this startup is well positioned to disrupt the $35 Billion US consumer storage industry, infusing cutting edge technology into an industry primed for innovation. Our solution reimagines the consumer storage market as “stuff management.” In an effort to help customers declutter their lives, our product helps customers effortlessly catalog and organize their stuff, make simple sell/store/donate/trash decisions, and fulfill those decisions on-demand without the customer needing to leave their home.
 
We are looking for an exceptional technology leader who will work with the executive leadership team to best align business and technology strategy to drive the success of this disruptive startup. The Head of Engineering leads the engineering team in defining and implementing an enterprise platform that delivers delightful experiences to end users. S/he will have a key leadership role in building a strong engineering team and culture that emphasizes innovation, growth and development. S/he will have end-to-end responsibility for the technology platform and the success of the engineering organization.
 
Lead Technical Strategy
Set the technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale; including defining long-term goals and strategies.
 
Win in the Marketplace
Drive continuous product improvement.
Identify opportunities and challenges in the marketplace, with constant evaluation of technological advancements and innovation to mitigate impediments and drive success.
Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms to drive growth, profitability and company value.
 
Execute with Excellence
Own the entire technology stack including engineering, architecture and infrastructure
Effectively align resources to achieve key business priorities, including appropriate scope, high quality and timely product releases
Proactively mitigate business, operational and governance risks.
o Ensure all internal processes and external services comply with security and privacy regulations
o Develop an enterprise-wide information security plan to ensure security of all company assets and data
o Establish enterprise-wide disaster recovery and continuity plan
Build an efficient and agile end-to-end application infrastructure, with best practices in software delivery
Define and implement a consistent and repeatable process for quality assurance across all areas of organization and product build
 
Build Great Talent & Teams
Attract and retain a team of world-class engineers
Establish a high performing, one-team engineering culture emphasizing innovation, growth, and development
Set team goals based on company initiatives and defined metrics. Drive results through effective technical leadership, project management, and collaboration with Product Management, Design, and business teams.
Continue to challenge status quo in terms of development process and best engineering practices. Promote healthy debates around new tools and processes and champion changes that have positive impact.
 
Disrupt & Innovate
Consistent development of the technical roadmap to remain ahead of the market.
Provide expert technical guidance to all functional areas, including operations, marketing and product.
 
Inspire by Meaning & Purpose
Establish credibility throughout ecosystem as a technology evangelist to drive authentic engagement to galvanize engineering team to create and drive technical solutions to core business challenges.
 
Desired Expertise and Experience
10+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role
Experience leading and scaling a high growth start-up
Proven track record of demonstrating ability to scale and build large engineering teams from scratch
Proven track record of bringing highly-rated mobile and web applications to market in a startup environment
Exercised exemplary development practices on design reviews, code reviews, unit testing, and following coding standards.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team and with cross-functional technical and business teams.
Exhibited passion for mentoring and contributing to the development of others through code reviews, tech talks, or personal coaching.
Demonstrated ability to multi-task and make quick decisions under pressure given on-going maintenance, support, and new initiatives.
Motivated by startups; love working in a face-paced, entrepreneurial, innovative environment.
Experience with software best practices in:
o Design & Development of multi-tier architecture
o Middleware/ESB/Software design patterns
o Authentication and Role-based Authorization
o Third party API integration
o Continuous integration/Continuous deployment
o Static Code Analyzers frameworks
o Regression and Automated API/Web/Mobile testing
Relevant technology experience:
o REST API development
o J2EE design patterns
o Multithreading & Message Queues
o Push Notifications
o Unit Testing frameworks
o Working knowledge of:
§ Java, J2EE, Spring (Core, MVC, Security, etc), JUnit, Gradle, Eclipse/IntelliJ
§ Swift (iOS), XCode, CocoaPods, FastLane, Fabric
§ Angular 2, TypeScript, Bootstrap, NPM, Webpack
§ Amazon Web Services Cloud (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, etc)
 Consumer storage experience preferred
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