- Website: http://www.singlefeed.com/
- Contact: jobs@singlefeed.com
- How to Apply: Email
SingleFeed is seeking an experienced, hands-on VP or Director of engineering to lead, manage, and grow its technical team. This position is based in Palo Alto/San Francisco.
SingleFeed is a web service which enables merchants to effectively market their goods through shopping search engines such as Google Product Search, Yahoo! Shopping, Shopzilla, and PriceGrabber by managing and submitting high quality product data feeds. Each shopping engine has a different specification for how they want product data feeds to be delivered. Each shopping engine also has a different algorithm for how they rank products. SingleFeed’s goal is to get merchants up and running quickly and easily on multiple shopping engines while helping merchants achieve the highest ROI possible.
SingleFeed is a venture-backed start up with real customers and real revenue. Our funding comes from two prominent early-stage VCs, True Ventures and NetService Ventures, the backers of companies like Automattic, GigaOm, Aggregate Knowledge, and Meebo. This is a great time to join SingleFeed, take a significant equity stake, and lead our technical strategy. The core of this role is technology, but as a leader in an early stage company, we need someone who can go from a late night release to an early morning board meeting without missing a beat.
Because we’re small (8 employees and contractors), this job initially includes hands-on responsibilities for architecture, coding (yes, you will be coding), and process management, but as the company grows, you will hire a team to fill systems architect, project manager, and other positions while you transition into a more typical VP Engineering role. Right now, you have to be comfortable with not just working through hard problems, but taking control, wearing many hats, and getting your hands dirty.
The Role:
SingleFeed has built a foundation with a functioning 1.0 product being used by merchants to market their goods today. We’re looking for an entrepreneurial VP of Engineering to maintain existing levels of service, while helping us develop new systems and roll out significant enhancements. You will lead all engineering development, release, QA, and operations for SingleFeed while working with the CEO to define functionality and build code to meet business and merchant needs. You will need to hire and manage a top quality engineering team which will develop new technologies to help our merchants succeed. You must be comfortable using outside contractors where appropriate and working with distributed teams - our current development team is located throughout the country.
Responsibilities:
Hire, manage, and motivate a team of top engineers to create extremely valuable, but easy to use solutions for our merchants.
Maintain a high standard for quality, and be accountable for managing all projects through the full project lifecycle (building, unit testing/QA, releasing, documentation) once the business specification/PRD has been agreed upon. Create budgets and resource allocation for the engineering team that consistently produces on time, high quality solutions.
Control over future architecture and design decisions while maintaining levels of service for existing customers. We currently have a small team of PERL/MySQL & Java/CSS/AJAX developers so you have to be comfortable jumping into the code.
Have an excellent track record as both an engineer and an engineering manager.
Work closely with the CEO and other team leaders (marketing, account management, business development), so you must have a great business sense and be able to explain project details clearly in a non-technical manner.
On the back of introductions by the CEO, build technical relationships with partners (such as Google, Yahoo, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, etc.) to enable our merchants to improve their results on various marketing channels.
Qualifications:
5 - 10 years of managing & directing software development projects, 5 - 7 years of web based software development experience, and 3 or more years in a significant and senior management role (oversight of development, QA, release).
Deep understanding of software engineering principles and process. Ability to lead code and architecture reviews of key system components, and make or lead critical decisions about performance/time/risk tradeoffs. Proven ability to be the key manager, advocate, and champion of the engineering team within the company. Ability to commit to delivery dates and goals which meet the company’s business needs, and successfully manage the code creation process and engineering team to hit those dates and goals.
Experience with e-commerce solutions, online marketing, and analytics programs is a plus.
BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent. The right to work in the United States.
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