\nFavly is a mobile application that connects people with trusted businesses through the power of personal referrals.\n\n\nWe believe in strengthening communities by promoting good, local business. Favly was born out of the conviction that our favorite, most trusted way of doing business is by sharing personal referrals.\n\n\n\nVice President of Technology\n\nReporting to the VP/General Manager, your role is to ensure the successful execution of the company’s business mission through the development and deployment of Favly’s mobile app and web presence. You are instrumental in helping to scale a very dynamic and growing organization. You have deep technology knowledge, specifically as it relates to mobile development, and are able to evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms for the delivery of our product. You will build and manage a top caliber development and quality assurance team, and oversee development, QA and project management. You are able to work in a fast paced environment overseeing development and deployment, while keeping releases on time. Serving on the Executive Team, you co-own company strategy and leadership, and have analytical mind and solve problems quickly.\n\n\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities\n\n\n* Create and articulate the company’s product vision and product road map\n\n* Recruit, develop and retain top engineering talent\n\n* Lead the engineering process, determining when to use native, when to use web, or when to use a combination\n\n* Lead the delivery of high-quality, on-time mobile product improvements and features ensuring high customer satisfaction\n\n* Lead execution of technology partnerships, relationships, etc.\n\n* Identify competitive services and opportunities for innovation\n\n* Identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that influence the business\n\n* Anticipate and address major technology changes\n\n* Work with product team to identify requirements and features feasibility\n\n* Develop proprietary tools based on business needs\n\n* Identify and prioritize development initiatives\n\n* Set and meet aggressive timetables\n\n* Direct development and execution of enterprise-wide information security plan\n\n* Direct and execute an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan\n\n* Build and manage internal and external teams\n\n* Oversee infrastructure development and deployment; build an infrastructure that can scale to millions of registered and active users\n\n* Develop and own technology budget\n\n* Define organization’s software development methodology\n\n* Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen\n\n* Establish and supervise QA process, including integration and system testing\n\n* Select, deploy and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures\n\n* Evaluate and select web application hosting providers\n\n* Establish an application deployment process\n\n* Monitor app performance and review any app failures in staging or production\n\n* Analyze server workload, including traffic and utilization trends\n\n* Establish and monitor an analytics regime that measures performance to goals\n\n* Review and approve proposed development releases\n\n* Evaluate search engine optimization\n\n* Ensure the ongoing maintenance and updating of information systems and infrastructure, including hardware, software, and ASP applications\n\n\n\n\n\nDesired Skills & Experience\n\n\n* Experience developing cross-platform mobile applications\n\n* Expertise in agile development\n\n* Expertise in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript\n\n* Experience with JavaScript frameworks and libraries like Angular, Ember, React, Node\n\n* Expertise in iOS or Android native development, or wrappers like PhoneGap\n\n* Experience with automated testing and test driven development\n\n* Experience with social login from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.\n\n* Strong Objective-C skills and inside-and-out knowledge of the iOS SDK\n\n* Strong Java skills with extensive knowledge of the Android SDK\n\n* Experience using and creating scalable web-based RESTful APIs\n\n* Object Oriented PHP skills at all scales\n\n* Experience in integrating 3rd party interfaces\n\n* Experience in a startup environment\n\n* Ability to manage engineering teams (QA, Dev, Ops)\n\n* Ability to keep remote teams on track\n\n* Proficiency with web programming languages (PHP, C#, Java, Ruby, Python)\n\n* Proficiency with front-end web technologies (XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax)\n\n* Proficiency with several RDBMSs (MySQL, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL)\n\n* Experience with revision control systems (Git, Mercurial, SVN, Perforce, etc)\n\n* Experience working with different CMSs (BrowswerCMS, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke)\n\n* Experience managing agile development processes through tools such as Atlassian suite\n\n* Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities\n\n* Excellent verbal and written communication\n\n* Keen analytic and problem-solving abilities\n\n\n\n\n\nPersonal Qualities & Core Competencies\n\n\n* Possess personal integrity: a deep moral compass that guides personal action\n\n* Use values and principles to make decisions\n\n* Strive to “do the right thing”\n\n* Yearn to work at a company where the organization’s values reflect personal ones\n\n* Are a team player: understand that success is only achievable as a team\n\n* Treat others fairly and with respect\n\n* Listen well and communicate well\n\n* Are fiercely consumer focused: have a real love and understanding of consumer behavior, and have personal experience using a variety of research and A-B testing techniques\n\n* Seek to understand what consumers want/need from both functional and emotional perspectives\n\n* Embrace the user community, becoming a “hands on,” active user of the service\n\n* Envision long-term market potential and business opportunity and position the business to capitalize on them\n\n* Anticipate future business opportunities or problems and develops strategies to address them\n\n* Drive results: set dramatic, compelling goals and aggressive schedules for improvement\n\n* Have a demonstrated record of delivering both short- and long-term results\n\n* Translate the vision/mission of the organization into actionable, quantitative plans\n\n* Convey a sense of urgency, and drive issues to closure\n\n* Seeks to build a great company for the long haul, not merely optimize for short-term gains\n\n* Embrace goals with enthusiasm: relentlessly optimistic while being grounded in reality\n\n* Manage performance: translates over-arching business goals into specific objectives for each member of the team\n\n* Hold people accountable for agreed-to results.\n\n* Identify and keep others focused on the most important metrics that drive the business.\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation\n\nUniversity degree in the field of computer science or engineering. An advanced degree is a plus.\n\n\nLocation\n\nWe are located in the beautiful community of Ojai, CA.\n\nIt’s a great place LIVE * WORK * PLAY (www.discoverojai.com/about_ojai.html)\n\nHowever, working remotely is an option.\n\n\nCompensation\n\nComfortable base plus equity.\n\n\n\nTo Apply\n\nAre you interested in applying? Contact us at
[email protected]. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, InfoSec, C, C Plus Plus, CSS, Quality Assurance, PHP, HTML, Python, Scala, Angular, Node, Drupal, Ruby, SEO, API, Admin, Mobile, Android, Engineer, Sys Admin, Executive and Java jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
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