Remote Engineering + Recruiting + SaaS + Teach Jobs

Are you an inspirational, forward-thinking, and people-centric seasoned engineering leader? Do you excel at transforming vision and strategy into results? Have you led other engineering organizations to achieve next level of excellence during the growth phase of the business life cycle? Are you pragmatic with an unshakable focus on strategy, execution, and results? Do you have depth and breadth in leading SaaS product development?\n\nIf you answered yes to these questions, we are sure this position will sound super exciting to you. 🤩\n\nKeep reading for more details! 📝\n\n\n# Become Our New Head of Engineering!\nAs the Head of Engineering you will lead the strategy and execution for our cross-functional engineering teams to deliver an exceptional customer experience and lower customer effort while empowering our customers to easily and quickly gain the benefits of our products.\n\nWP Media is the French company behind successful WordPress plugins like WP Rocket and Imagify. WP Rocket is the premium caching plugin for WordPress used by +1,000,000 websites and +120,000 customers worldwide. Our plugin makes sites go at the speed of light in just a few clicks. Imagify is our free image optimization service, including a free WordPress plugin: we have already optimized more than 2,000,000,000 images! 😲\n\nYou will join and lead our remote, global team, covering AMER and EMEA regions. To facilitate this international teamwork, you live or work in a time zone between UTC+2 to UTC-5. We are so curious to know which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍\n\n\n\n# Our Technical Stack:\nOur products are powered by:\n\nLanguages: Python, PHP, and JavaScript\nFrameworks: Django, Lumen, Symfony, Ember, and Node\nWordPress for our plugins and websites\nArchitecture: modular, monolithic, and microservices\nGitHub for our code repositories\nOVH Cloud Services for SaaS APIs and websites\n\n\n## What Your Mission Will Be:\nOur Engineering mission is:\n*We engineer and deliver production-ready products that make our customers' websites better, faster, and lighter.*\n\n\nYour mission is to:\n\n* empower the engineering department to achieve its mission\n* ensure the product vision is realized through quality and excellence\n* ensure we serve the current and future technology and engineering needs of the company\n* nurture, scale, and empower happy, healthy, and high-performance teams\n\n## What You Will Be Responsible For:\nHere is a list describing the focal areas you'll be responsible for in this role (*do you happen to like making lists? So do we!*):\n\n\n\nThe engineering department is responsible for:\n\n* developing the things Product envisions\n* delivering quality\n* serving the technology and automation needs across our business\n* partnering with Product to envision the future\n\n\nThe Head of Engineering is responsible to make all of the above happen.\n\n\n\nYou will ensure all aspects of the department (people, processes, infrastructure, operations, etc.) achieve its responsibilities today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\n\n\nYou will lead our global Engineering strategy and execution to:\n\n* People\n * Hiring\n * Career development\n * Team management\n * Team health and happiness\n * Builds and scales high-performance, agile, and collaborative teams\n\n* Engineering operations\n * Owning, managing, and optimizing the overall engineering processes, practices, and tooling\n * Product and internal Infrastructures\n * Managing and paying down our technical debt\n\n* Delivery\n * Executing the technical and product strategies and roadmaps\n * Engineer and deliver what our technical and product strategies envisioned\n * Readiness\n * ensures our teams are capable and ready to deliver results when needed\n * ensures we have capacity to deliver when needed\n * ensures our operations, networks, and infrastructure are ready and available to serve our customers, team, and company\n\n * Results:\n * Deliver the right results of quality, and excellence\n * Drives agility and continuous improvement\n * Owning and managing engineering budget responsibilities while being fiscally pragmatic and accountable\n\n * Partnerships:\n * Partners with the CEO to\n * Co-develop the technical vision, roadmap, and strategy\n * Identify and assess technical risks\n * Inspect and continuously improve:\n * our standards and practices\n * technical debt\n * architecture\n * Partners with the CPO to\n * define the “how” for each feature, issue, and task in the Product Backlog\n * define the “how much” for product planning\n * provide timely and thoughtful progress updates\n * ensure we engineer and build what Product envisioned\n * Partners with the Head of Support to\n * hear the voice of the customer\n * understand, access, and reduce the impacts from our work on the Support department\n * Partners with all leaders of the company for our business technology needs\n\n## What Do You Need To Excel at This Job:\nHere is a short list of the key attributes you'll need to excel in this role:\n\n* You are an exceptional servant leader\n* You empower your people\n* You are a team builder\n* You are an operations architect and optimizer\n* You are a performance and excellence maximizer\n* You get the *right* things done\n* You deliver the *right* results\n* You are fiscally pragmatic\n\n\n**Seasoned engineering leader with proven success.**\n\nYou have years and years of engineering leadership experience in a SaaS product company at scale with millions of requests per day. You've successfully led and grown cross-functional, globally distributed department of software, QA, DevOps, and systems engineers. Over the years of your career, you've amassed breadth and depth in what it takes for an engineering organization to deliver exceptional product and customer experiences and impact.\n\n\n\n**Seasoned engineer.**\n\nWe are a technology company. The leader for this role will be a seasoned engineer. In order to lead this department, you will need to be able to walk in their shoes and understand how well enough to guide, facilitate, advice, and validate. You are not expected to code or do hands-on engineering. We need you to be working in the weeks and months ahead, to see where we are going, what the risks are, and how we can get there. To do this, you will need to a strong technical background.\n\n\n\n**Servant leader.**\n\nYour philosophy of leadership aligns to the servant leader style. You believe your role is to serve the Engineering people. We value empowered people and teams. As a servant leader, you actively push decision making down to those closest to the problem and actively coach people to develop their decision making superpowers.\n\n\n\n**People empowerer. Team builder.**\n\nYou know that to deliver results, you start with happy, high-performance engineering people and teams. You are a proven and exceptional people empowerer and team builder. You are an outstanding and effective coach. You serve your people by actively developing and coaching them as well as creating opportunities for each person to continuously learn, improve, and grow. You advocate for continuous learning and improvement. You create a sense of psychological safety for your people. You excel at recruiting and retaining top high performing talent.\n\n\n\n**Unshakeable focus on execution, results, and strategy.**\n\nYou possess an unshakeable focus on execution, results, and strategy. Your eyes are focused on the vision of where we are going while your feet are firmly planted in daily to ensure your people are on course and moving towards that vision and the results we must achieve.\n\n\n\nYou are data-driven and masterful at developing the right set of metrics. You know that the right set of metrics is your compass, helping everyone to know if we are on track.\n\n\n\n**Stellar communication skills.**\n\nYou present complex information to audiences ranging from cross-functional leads to executives and leave them informed and inspired.\n\n\n\n**Operations and performance maximizer.**\n\nThrough the years, you've refined your operational approach to maximize performance and excellence. You get the *right* things done and deliver the right results. You leverage OKRs to focus on and achieve those right things and results. You have an eye for identifying and removing friction from the engineering process (e.g. developing and implementing internal service tooling to automate processes).\n\n\n\n**Tune and refine, rather than redesign.**\n\nYou are agile, building on top of what exists and is already working well. You tune and refine, adapting for your new company, organizational design, department, and teams. You know that big sweeping changes are disruptive and costly. You opt to take baby steps.\n\n\n\n**Champion of continuous learning and improvement.**\n\nYou advocate and champion continuous learning and improvement. You see mistakes and missteps as opportunities to learn, improve, and grow. You encourage everyone around you to embrace these principles as part of your strategy to achieve results and better serve our customers.\n\n\n\n**Being Yourself.**\n\nThe WP Media team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values (*more on this below*). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.\n\n\n\n**Proficient knowledge of English.**\n\nEmpathetic and collaborative communication is key: you are comfortable writing, speaking, and listening in English with technical and non-technical teammates.\n\n\n\n### *Do you want to know a few other things we appreciate about our candidates? Don’t worry if you don’t have experience in any of these areas. We’ll teach you.*\n\n\n\n**Previous freelance or remote job experience.**\n\nSlack will be your virtual office, where all the life of the company takes place.\n\n\n\n**Know web performance.**\n\nYou have experience with web performance optimization. You know how to measure page load speeds. You understand caching. Terms like gzip, preload, minify, and lazyload are not foreign to you. You know the difference between PageSpeed score and page load time. If you don’t know, we’ll teach you.\n\n\n\n**Love for cats or Corgis!** 😸🐶\n\nWhat would our working days be without our four-legged friends?\n\n\n## What Else You Should Know About Our Company: WP Media\nFounded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France, [WP Media](http://wp-media.me/) is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +35 teammates living around the world.\n\n\n\n## Do We Share the Same Values?\n\n**Mutual respect**, **collaboration**, and **inclusivity**.\n\nThese are the fundamental values that support our life as a team.\n\n\n**Healthy balance between work and private life.**\n\nWe encourage our employees to enjoy their family and their hobbies with flexible working hours and *minimum* vacation policy (you should take a minimum of 5 weeks per year: really, we don’t count them!).\n\n\n\n**We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.**\n\nYou can organize your working day with flexible working hours. There are no time cards to stamp, just customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with!\n\n\n**Transparent culture.**\n\nWe have a [public salary grid](https://wp-rocket.me/blog/our-salary-grid-is-now-public/). Once a year, when the company does well, we **share our profits** with the team in the form of bonuses.\n\n\n**We like to see each other in person whenever possible.**\n\nEvery year, we organize a trip with the whole team and **spend a week of coworking and fun activities together**.\n\n\nTo give you an idea, so far we have traveled to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico:\n\n\n\nNow that we've told you so much about us, it's your turn. 😉\n\n\nLet us know why you would like to become **our Head of Engineering** and why you think you are the person we are looking for.\n\nWe can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟 \n\nPlease mention the words **DIAMOND ARRANGE SPOIL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNy4xNTYuMTE0). 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\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nInVision is the Digital Product Design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. We provide design tools and educational resources for teams to navigate  every stage of the product design process, from ideation to development.\n\nToday, more than 3.5 million people use InVision to create a repeatable and streamlined design workflow; rapidly design and prototype products before writing code, and collaborate across their entire organization. That includes more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100, and organizations like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber, who are now able to design better products, faster.\n\nInVision is a fully distributed company with employees in 25 countries around the world. The company has raised more than $235 million in funding from leading investors including Accel, ICONIQ, FirstMark, Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, and Spark Capital. Visit us at InVisionApp.com andInVisionApp.com/blog.\n\nOur development flow is designed and built for maximum speed and velocity.As such, we have an engineering security team heavily focused on identifying and remediating application vulnerabilities.You will be part of a team that has an opportunity to work across a wide range of products and services, working with and communicating across all teams in technology and responding to internal and external stakeholders.You will have an opportunity to identify security enhancement and cutting edge features that are attractive and desirable to our customer base.\n\nYou will contribute to an environment that enables you to do your best engineering work, and you’ll do it with new web standards and frameworks like ES6, React, MongoDB, NodeJS, Go, and Docker. We empower engineers by being laser focused on maximum developer velocity through automation of tests, builds, deploys and tight customer feedback loop to continuously improve the product.\n\nBuilding and shipping something this amazing and owning it from prototypes and specifications to release requires constant collaboration with the brightest people in the organization. Whether you’re at a beach house in Hawaii or a coffee shop on the East Coast, you’ll have the support of brilliant developers at your fingertips to get you through and keep the workday challenging and fun.\nAs Part of The Team:\n\n\n* Secure our code.  Identify emergent vulnerabilities in our application source code.  \n\n* Bake security into our product.  Work with InVision engineers to evolve, design, implement security measures.\n\n* Help us be compliant.  Design and implement strategies and solution to maintain industry compliance requirements.\n\n* Be a security advocate.  Every day offers a variety of work, exciting new challenges, opportunities to contribute new ideas (your voice will be heard and valued), and the ability to share your knowledge across the engineering organization. \n\n* Evolve security.   Help evolve InVision’s vulnerability remediation process and response efforts. \n\n* Build security stuff.  Work with product and engineering teams to build new application security features.  Interface with other Product Engineering teams and Platform Service teams to take advantage of and incorporate their services and tools into your product.\n\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Need to Join Us:\n\n\n* Proficiency in NodeJS and Golang.  \n\n* Advance working knowledge of application vulnerabilities. OWASP top 10 is a good place to start but understanding that there are over 600 distinctly different types of coding vulnerabilities.\n\n* Ability to debug full-stack problems; debug a web application problem single-handedly all the way from the browser, through transport, to the application servers/databases. Not afraid of logs and core dumps.\n\n* Use of continuous integration and delivery technologies at an expert level and ability to teach others best practices.\n\n* Experience designing and building high volume, scalable SaaS applications from end to end.\n\n* Curiosity to iterate and improve on solutions; you view unknowns as challenges and enjoy them.\n\n* Motivation to understand the business and our users, their requirements, and deliver results.\n\n* Passion for continued learning and achieving personal goals through developer community involvement and contributions.\n\n\n\n\nAlso Good To Have:\n\n\n* Multi-lingual is your language.  You can spot vulnerabilities in code for various language (React, Java, Kotlin, Swift)\n\n* You know mobile.  Be it iOS or Android you understand mobile development, security, testingstrategy, and interfaces.  Mobile experience is a strong, strong PLUS!!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\nInVision offers an incredibly unique work environment. The company employs a diverse team all over the world. In the United States we have team members throughout 40+ states including New York, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, and Boston. Each InVision team member is given the freedom and tools to do their best work from wherever they choose. The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a 401k plan.\n\nSome InVision-wide benefits offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, monthly coffee shop stipends, annual allowances for books related to your profession, and home office setup & wellness reimbursements. InVision is an international employer so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.  Please ask our recruiting team about the benefits and perks package available in your country.\n\nInVision is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to InfoSec, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Android and SaaS jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 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