Head of Engineering (reporting to CEO)

People Leadership:

• Must have:
• An inspiring people leader that is able to attract, retain and excite exceptional engineers
• Lead and mentor a team of engineering leaders, providing strategic guidance and effecting change through both advice and action
• Collaborate with other members of the leadership team to develop and meet organizational goals while supplying expertise and guidance on projects, operations, and systems
• Fit with our cultural values, including collaboration, transparency and commitment to excellence 
• An ability to manage a distributed team across the globe (mindful of managing cultural and time zone differences) 
• Strong, decisive self-starter with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment


• Nice to have:
• Prior experience as a member of an executive team (CEO direct report)

Technical Leadership:

• Must have:
• Extensive native public cloud engineering experience (AWS is a plus but gCloud and MSFT clouds work as well)
• Experience in compute- and data-heavy platform building (petabyte-scale data and building complex multi-source data lakes)
• Experience developing sophisticated B2B SaaS applications
• Experience establishing, communicating, and implementing engineering and development policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations 


• Nice to have:
• Business / P&L / general management / product management experience 
• Insurtech/Fintech experience 
• Familiarity with the core technologies used by CyberCube today (see below) 
• Experience working with demanding B2B development partner clients on technology integrations and establishing relationships as a long-term trusted partner
• Experience architecting and building proprietary data collection infrastructure 
• Experience working in a data analytics intensive company 
• Cybersecurity experience a plus 

Ability to build scalable processes:

• Must have:
• Experience creating scalable processes of growing organization 
• Experience with setting up and overseeing core elements of a high performing engineering organization including design, development, automation, builds, deployment
• Demonstrated track record of performance management, including measuring quality and create realistic timelines; planning process; continuous grooming and deployment


• Nice to have:
• Experience leading a growth stage company (Series C+, growth equity or PE-backed companies) 

Background of our technology requirements

• Technical leadership and architecture experience in software development with a variety of languages (Java, Python, Node.js, JavaScript)
• Deep insight into Cloud - IAAS and PAAS (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• 6-8+ years’ experience designing and delivering large scale distributed systems (with at least 3-4 years on cloud services)
• Solid understanding of security/access control, scalability, and high availability
• Prior experience with database technologies (MongoDB, MYSQL, ES, SOLR, Cassandra)
• Prior experience with agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps
• Experience with large-scale, big data methods and data-driven architectures 
• 3+ years of software architecture implementing modern cloud microservices architectures
• 3+ years of Continuous Integration > Continuous Delivery > Release on Demand