DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a VP R&D to help us grow our development teams’ capabilities. You will report directly to the CTO and work directly with the
product and other stakeholders in the company in order to design the optimal solution to the challenges our company faces.
The VP R&D is responsible for the entire development lifecycle of our main product backend and infrastructure. Our core R&D develops the
entire business logic layer, the application ETL infrastructure and other application infra components that are required in order fulfill our
extremely ambitious goals of providing consumers with first-of-its-kind solution for the real estate market.
The group does that by developing a set of different services using a diverse set of tools and programming languages in order to utilize the
right tool for the right job and service.
The ideal candidate for this should be a dedicated, self motivated team player with passion for technology and also have the will to
understand and contribute to product and business decisions. The candidate should have a strong background
as a developer and technical manager who worked on complex applications with emphasis on backend applications and infrastructure.
This role is located in Tel Aviv, and reporting directly to our CTO.
Responsibilities:
· Lead our core R&D organization – engineers, BI, QA & DevOps teams, both in Tel Aviv and Kiev.
· Solve challenging problems in a fast-paced and evolving environment while maintaining uncompromising quality
· Lead by example, and make the people around you better
· Passionate about code and hands-on approach
· Design and develop end-to-end high quality features
· Enhance the team’s devops capabilities
Main backend technology stack:
· Node.js (with Typescript)
· The Clojure programming language
· MongoDB
· PostgresQL + PostGiS
· ElasticSearch
· Redis
· Production environment on AWS
· Services architecture with services deployment and management using Kubernetes
· CI/CD using CircleCI
REQUIREMENTS
· 8+ years of proven experience developing large scale software using an object oriented or a functional language – a must
· 4+ years of managerial experience in at least 2 different positions
· 2+ years of managing a development group comprised of several teams
· Ability to design and develop complex components independently, dealing with advanced architectural issues – a must
· Good Knowledge of web application architecture – a must
· High level English – a must
· B.Sc. degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent – an advantage
· Experience in functional programming – an advantage
· Experience with GIS – an advantage
