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Head of Engineering - EMEA Remote

Canada - Toronto
Posted: 17/05/2022

Salary: £150K to £200K per Year
ID: 24988_BH

Head of Engineering

At out client, they build solutions to help companies optimize their buildings, both for their occupants and for the planet.
Buildings are responsible for nearly 40% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. We also spend 90% of our time inside of them, often breathing unhealthy air.
Our client creates environmental IoT monitoring products, software analytics, and turn-key building integrations to help companies around the world transform their built environment.
We’re a fast growing (3x YoY), venture backed, cashflow positive startup tackling one of the largest markets in the world: the health and decarbonization of our buildings. Our clients include Microsoft, Linkedin, Google, Apple, and more.
We are a remote-first company with engineering talent primarily distributed across Europe and Asia.
Position Overview
This is a senior leadership position - you will play a central role in defining the future of our client and the future of our industry.
As our first Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for delivering on our multi-year vision, strategy and roadmap across all of our products. You will work closely with the CEO, Head of Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Sales teams to deliver a world-class experience through our products.
Our goal is not to simply build a beautiful hardware product and dashboards for data
visualization, but to offer our customers deep insights into the data and extract complex learnings from them.
You will be responsible for recruiting, developing and coaching a team of engineers creating both hardware and software solutions. We already have an incredible team of individual
contributors with 10+ years at companies including Microsoft, Apple and Samsung - you will be in good company.
You will own all aspects of engineering. You should be fascinated and excited by both the prospect of building a world-class team and also getting your hands dirty. This might be troubleshooting, problem solving tricky challenges, or working on strategies to massively scale our technology as we 10x our volume of data captured.
You should be comfortable with uncertainty and enjoy both forging a path where one does not yet exist, while also optimizing existing systems and processes to operate more efficiently.
● Location: Remote, preferably European or Asian timezones.
● Working hours: Full-time, flexible
● Reports to: CEO
Responsibilities
● Own the entire development process and drive change where necessary to enable the engineering team to do their best work.
● Recruit and develop a world class engineering organization by providing strong
mentorship, coaching and guidance.
● Work with your peers in the leadership team to define our client's strategy, and then translate that into strategy for the engineering team.
● Develop standards and procedures to ensure that product is shipped on time and to high quality standards.
● Work closely with our lead engineers to identify new technologies, architectures, and solutions to support the company’s rapid growth and scale.
Minimum Qualifications
● 10+ years of experience in software development or management.
● 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership recruiting, leading, and scaling technical organizations.
● Strong experience shaping highly scalable enterprise systems.
● Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
● Experience working with both software development and with hardware engineering strongly preferred
Preferred Qualifications
● Experience managing a distributed team.
● Experience working with supply chain and manufacturing of IoT products.
● Proven success working closely with Product Management, contributing to the product strategy and helping to successfully deliver on the product roadmap.
● Experience working with extremely security-conscious Fortune 500 Enterprise
customers.
Timeline
● Within 1 month, you will be comfortable with all of client’s products, processes, culture and way of working. You will be able to clearly explain how our current architecture is built, and how our hardware, cloud and front-end systems interact.
● Within 6 months, you will have upgraded several internal processes, and the engineering team’s velocity will be at a historical peak.
● Within 1 year, the engineering team will have doubled in size, and new hardware and software products will be in the hands of customers.
● Within 3 years, your products will be optimizing the environment and making a
measurable dent in the CO2 emissions of tens of thousands of buildings around the world.