VP - Software Engineering

Hiring for Financial Services company

Global platform where  business customers come to onboard, enroll, service and grow their business with us. It’s also where employees can engage with those customers to deliver a best-in-class experience that supports their business needs. Our charter is to enable customers to simply and easily manage their business with Client 
 
As the VP of Software Engineering, you will lead our engineers in Pune and Vadodara and partner with our engineering lead in New York. Our goal is to create a platform that makes it trivially easy for others to integrate their apps into the Connect platform while ensuring that our app is held to the highest standards to content and security, because nothing is more important than maintaining the trust of our customers. Additionally, you will be responsible for building and maintaining a high-performing engineering team that is grounded on a culture of trust, ownership and innovation.
Hands-on technical leader who brings considerable experience leading large-scale efforts in application development for backend, web and mobile applications, using a broad range of technologies.
Responsible for hiring and developing engineering and engineering management talent.
Owner of several major functional areas of our code.
Manager of managers and senior individual contributors.
Collaborate across other teams to deliver results.
Consistently raise standards, insisting on better and continuously improving.
 
About You:

You are a hands-on, technical and people leader able to manage directly and through others.
As a technically astute leader, your recognized subject matter expertise allows you regularly dive deep into everything your teams do.
Your leadership style is based on building trust with your team, your peers, and your management and especially leading by example.
You are high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and adaptive and can work in a dynamic environment.
You possess strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and are able to get your point across efficiently to a wide range of audiences.
You are obsessed with results, and effectively define and communicate objectives and how success will be measured to your teams and other stakeholders.
You have strong decision-making skills, and you have a bias for action rather than drawn-out analysis because you understand that most decisions are not irreversible.
You have an ability to simultaneously manage short-term priorities and long-term initiatives.
You regularly lead retrospection, and continually improve as a result.
You have strong collaborative and organizational skills and you value transparency over avoiding scrutiny.
You understand how to guide a team member’s career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
You are an experienced manager able to evaluate and coach other managers.
You are experienced in distributed system design and implementation, and have a good understanding of how high-performance, high-reliability, large-scale distributed systems are built and operated.
You have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and you practice Agile at an advanced level.
You have experience and knowledge of Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD).
You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira).
You have an understanding of finance, and you are able to read, understand and lead the development of a business case.
You can exercise influence outside your own teams to achieve results for the entire organization.