680.01 Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, and hire cloud team engineers and ensure that they re motivated, happy, and contribute to team success.

Operate in a 60% hands-on and 40% leadership/process capacity.

Be generous in your mentorship and the development of your engineers, educating them using your technical mastery and ensuring your teammates get this from others in areas you re not an expert in.

Contribute to the broader engineering vision, in collaboration with the CTO and VP of engineering, and communicate the vision regularly to your team.

Design and deliver Time Doctor s suite of cloud applications.

Translate the product managers vision into well understood technical tasks that can be efficiently delivered by the team.

Drive a culture of quality that can scale by ensuring relevant test engineering techniques, for example, unit tests, code reviews, integration testing, and snapshot testing.

Own the complete cloud team delivery process, ensuring it s optimized from start to finish and continuously optimizing the process through regular retrospectives and continual improvement.

Initiate changes in existing processes based on a combination of the experience of you and your team and metrics to improve the efficiency, quality, and delivery rate of your team.

Minimize the number of open critical and support issues by working with support departments to respond rapidly and manage customer issues.

Own the cloud team production environment, ensuring platform performance, uptime, and stability.

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of experience working as a lead level engineer, ideally working on Java applications at scale.

Strong communication skills and the ability to lead technical discussions.

Strong Postgres experience, ideally with some sharding experience.

Experience with test-driven development and continuous delivery, ideally in a product-focused SaaS environment.

Experience working with Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Angular is desirable.

Experience working in a structured delivery environment.

Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.

The ability to form strong relationships with internal teams, for example, support, customer success, and other engineering teams.

The ability to prioritize and remain calm under pressure.