COMPANY: Canoe Intelligence

WEBSITE: https://canoeintelligence.com/

TITLE: VP of Engineering 

LOCATION: New York City/Remote

The Role: 

If you love using cutting-edge technology to build client facing products, scaling and leading teams of engineers, and having a direct impact on the technology stack of a hyper-growth startup, we are looking for you! As the VP of Engineering, you will be working with product managers, QA leads and the rest of the engineering team to take our software to the next level of evolution. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to make a direct impact on our clients, help us build a world class engineering team and grow a business that is redefining the alternative asset management technology space. 

 What You Will Do: 

• Define Canoe’s end-state architecture; own and drive necessary R&D and framework to support and scale it to meet Canoe’s business needs
• Define, own, and drive an inclusive engineering hiring process
• Develop engineering values and culture that are in alignment with company core values
• Translate company goals and initiatives into those for the engineering team; surface bottom-up engineering goals and initiatives to the senior leadership team; prioritize tech debt initiatives
• Develop standards for tech design, testing, code coverage, and code quality 
• Review and prioritize development initiatives in collaboration with Canoe’s product team
• Collaborate with Canoe’s product organization to set agile process standards
• Own the strategy and execution for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering functions until appropriate senior leaders are hired
• Develop and mentor engineering team members

What We’re Looking For:

Required:

• Have 10+ years of hands-on experience with full stack development 

• Proven track record defining platform architecture and executing on vision

• Familiarity and comfort with defining engineering OKRs and success metrics that drive performance for development teams

• Experience in interviewing & recruitment in order to scale development teams

• Track record of defining and building out professional development programs for all engineering levels

• Expertise in agile requirements and best practices

Preferred:

• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as Bitbucket, Docker Containers, Terraform etc. 

• Proven experience of managing SDLC process by using agile methodologies (such as SCRUM, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospection, use of story points and burndown charts etc.) is plus

• Prior experience with designing, developing, and supporting client facing products in a fast-paced product centric environment is plus 

What You’ll Get:

• Full benefits coverage, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and commuter benefits
• 20 days PTO, Unlimited Sick Days, + Gym & Wellness Reimbursement
• Option to be 100% remote
• One Floating Holiday Annually (Up to Employee Discretion)

 What’s The Process?

• Our candidate discovery process generally constitutes the following key milestones: Phone Interview(s) and Video Interview(s)

Our Principles: 

• Integrity that adheres to, and encourages, high professional and personal standards
• Execution and accountability-driven mentality that takes pride in getting the job done
• Intellectual curiosity, a mind for process and a drive for continual improvement
• Demonstrated passion for problem solving a desire to help people and a client-centric focus
• A comfort level with both giving and receiving respectful constructive critical feedback
• The ability to identify and articulate goals and measurements for your and others’ success
• Dedication to creating space for diverse backgrounds and perspectives to foster innovation & focus on intentional inclusivity

Who We Are:

Canoe is reimagining alternative investment data processes for hundreds of leading institutional investors, capital allocators, asset servicing firms and wealth managers. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data capture technologies, Canoe’s technology automates the highly frustrating, time-consuming, and costly manual workflows related to alternative investment document and data management, extraction, and delivery. With Canoe, clients can refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth, increase efficiency, and gain deeper access to their data. Canoe’s AI-driven platform was developed in 2013 for Portage Partners LLC, a private investment firm.

Canoe is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.