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Load Impact has a small, dedicated and distributed engineering team with a mission to change the landscape of performance testing.

We are now looking for a hungry, humble and hands-on Head of Engineering to serve and lead this group of diverse and talented individuals. Our CTO whom currently head's this role, will move on in the company leaving the responsibility of this team to our new Head of Engineering.

You will lead, empower and coach this team of developers, including a designer, to build a high-trust engineering culture where individuals feel a strong sense of purpose for the company vision and mission while mastering their craft.

You will play an important role in our mission to tear down the silos and bring performance testing into the modern DevOps organization. We are building a developer-centric solution based on an open source load testing tool, developed in-house by us, that seamlessly integrates with our commercial cloud platform. We have a strong belief that developers will and shall be responsible for testing their own code and that this process should be automated as part of a CI/CD process.

We think your background includes having worked as a developer in a high-paced, small technology company and you really aspire to become an entrepreneuring soul with all that it takes. We trust you are used to making yourself heard and understood in cross-functional teams and across the whole organization.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. Strong coding chops are a must have, predominantly to win team trust and then take the organization to the next level.

Responsibilities

As Head of Engineering at Load Impact, you will report to the CEO and:

  • Lead and guide Load Impact's engineering team.
  • Define and follow up on targets for each team member.
  • Be an active part in the management team of the Company.
  • Proactively remove any obstacles that stand in the way of engineering productivity.
  • Work closely with the engineering team and the CTO planning and execute software engineering development cycles in an agile environment.
  • Plan, execute and measure product success for the engineering team.
  • Recruit outstanding technical talent in a highly competitive market.
  • Take part in and manage the third-line technical support.

Personality

  • Lead by example; be able to contribute code and have a deep understanding of our stack.
  • Coach in key architecture and infrastructure decisions based on team input and information gathering.
  • Keep tabs on current industry trends, ensuring that the company maintains and expands its technology leadership position in thight collaboration with our CTO whom owns Company direction responsibility.

Experience

  • 8+ years of engineering experience.
  • 3+ years managing high-performing teams of at least 10 people in total.
  • Humility; ability to step back and speak openly about mistakes.
  • High emotional intelligence.
  • Built and delivered customer valued products that have scaled.
  • Extensive experience in both Python and JavaScript, preferably also in Go.
  • Comfortable with both the management and technical aspects of the position.
  • Understanding and experience with agile principles and practices.
  • Experience working in a continuous delivery environment.Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical team members.

And you're of course a performance nerd :)

Load Impact has a remote work culture, it's important to be able to manage a distributed team under these conditions. The role reports to the CEO of the Company and the person working in this role is expected to be present in the Stockholm office every week.

You want to take the next step in your career, working with an entrepreneurial team and culture joining a Company that enjoys customers from all over the world.

For the right candidate, there will be a program to become a partner in the Company ownership.

For agile software development teams, Load Impact will work to simplify and automate load and performance testing. Our tool is today used by modern development organisations all over the world.

Detta är en jobbannons med titeln "Head of Engineering" hos företaget Load Impact och publicerades på webbjobb.io den 2 oktober 2017 klockan 06:10.

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