Vice President, Software Engineering at Rovedana

Job Description
Important: - Candidate must be an expatriate or a Nigerian Returnee with extensive foreign experience

• The VP of Software Engineering will preside over the day to day leadership of the engineering team, owning weekly and monthly goals that encompass everything from uptime, reliability, and availability, to the cultivation of technical initiatives and successful delivery of features
• He/she will work closely with product owners and product managers to scope both new features and iterations on existing features, as well as develop timelines for execution and accountability against those timelines
• The successful candidate will create processes across teams to resolve and prioritize bug fixes, downtime, and mission-critical errors
• The ideal candidate will have experience in a hybrid (hardware and software) product environment as well as the ability to build a team and foster a great culture and attracting great engineering talent to a high-performance team
• This role reports directly to the CEO.

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or technical discipline (equivalent experience) is mandatory (M.Sc preferred)
• Relevant certifications

Experience:

• Minimum of 6 years in a software engineering management position such as Head of Software Development or VP of Engineering
• Minimum of 3-4 years in a hands-on development role in C++, Java or .NET architecture
• Hands-on leadership in an agile development environment working on large scale SaaS software, including cloud-based media processing, hosting and serving via both applications and APIs
• Proven experience in large data and data analytics—a key area of growth and the future focus of the company
• Recent experience managing DevOps teams.

Technical Requirements & Knowledge:

• Understanding of data modeling and SQL for scalability and performance as well as a strong JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, and MVC framework.
• Expertise in full stack architecture technologies, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, and HTML.
• Knowledge of a variety of programming languages such as Java, Objective C, C, and C++.

Applicants should send their CV to: resume@rovedana.com The subject of the mail should be “VP - Software Engineering”.

Note: Only qualified candidates with the requirements will be contacted.