Hiring: Head of Engineering for Cubo
About The Role
You'll lead the engineering team responsible for developing our product, Cubo. You'll work with the team to deliver a high-quality developer experience, and extend Cubo in powerful ways. The Head of Engineering at Cubo will be responsible for creating and fostering the user-focused, collaborative, and high-performing teams that build products to help everyone be a toolmaker.
What You'll Achieve
- You'll build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of engineers working on developing Cubo's features and providing a better experience for Cubo customers and users.
- You'll recruit, coach, and develop engineers; you'll ensure engineers are regularly receiving feedback and that they are making rapid progress on personal and professional goals.
- You'll facilitate planning—the prioritization, sequencing, and staffing of work—for your team.
- You'll be responsible for maintaining a high quality bar for everything your team ships.
- You'll collaborate closely with peers from other functions—Marketing, Partnerships, Support, and Sales, to name a few—on our overall product strategy, ongoing maintenance and support, and rolling out features to a broad set of audiences: third-party developers, integration partners, enterprise customers, and end users.
- You'll work with others to shape how Cubo's engineering organization works—you'll help develop our technical practices, recruiting and onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process, and more.
Skills You'll Need To Bring
- At least proficient in one language (Java/Node/Go), with electron, webrtc development experience.
- Familiar with AWS's IaaS and PaaS layer services, and have a full understanding and practice.
- Fluent English is a must. Previous experience with SAAS products.
- You have managed engineering teams with a record of shipping high-quality products.
- You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive teams.
- You create team environments that are at once collaborative, empowering, supportive, and challenging—ones where engineers do their best work.
- You have a sufficiently deep background in product and technology that you can ask the right questions of your team, balance product, tech, and people concerns, and make hard tradeoffs.
- You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and change, especially around organizational structure and the boundaries of your role. You enjoy jumping into whatever areas need attention and learning as-you-go.
- You value empathetic and direct communication, particularly when giving and receiving feedback.
Nice To Haves
- You have managed engineering teams at startups before, particularly during periods of rapid growth and organizational change.
- You've managed teams that are partially (or entirely) remote.
- Bonus points if you have experience studying in Europe and America.
What we offer:
- 🏖️You have access to unlimited personal time off and flexible working hours.
- 🌍Remote-first culture with a team working remotely from all over the world.
- 📚3 book purchase privileges per month.
- Trust and freedom.
- Supportive and highly skilled team members.
- Opportunity to make a real impact in customers’ work and lives.
