Lead and mentor the engineering organization while providing technical, strategic, and operational direction. Own platform strategy, roadmaps, processes, implementation, production support, and execution of the product vision. Guide teams through the design, development, testing, and launch of highly scalable, complex cloud-based systems, serving as a hands-on technical leader reporting to the CEO.
Launched in 2012, Koding, a fast-growing startup (with over a million users), is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead engineering efforts.
We are looking for a solid technical leader to shape the future of the Koding platform and manage/mentor the engineering team. The position is based in San Francisco, CA and reports to the CEO.
The ideal candidate will provide technical, strategic and operational leadership to the engineering team. He/she needs to be a hands-on leader with a passion for building compelling technology platforms. We require a proven ability to grow and lead a team of talented engineers through design, development, testing and launch of highly scalable and complex systems. This position will require you to be responsible for strategy, roadmaps, processes, implementation and production support. In short, you will not only create the strategy to evolve the technology of our platform, you will also ensure that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution.
Koding is a developer-focused startup based in San Francisco’s SOMA district. Our core product is: “Development Environments as a Service”. We offer feature rich cloud-based development environments that are complete with free VMs, an attractive code editor & sudo level terminal… all in a browser.
Koding provides all you need to move your software development completely to the cloud. You will be up and running in minutes on your own cloud-based Linux boxes where you can learn programming languages like Ruby, Go, Java, NodeJS, PHP, C, C++, Perl, Python…the list goes on! You can experiment with installing/configuring/hacking Wordpress, Laravel, Django, Bootstrap and a slew of others or fire up a MySQL, Mongo, Postgres server with the click of a button. Our collaboration features allow you to pair-program with your friends and colleagues using audio-video and real time sharing of the entire development workspace. Leave your localhost behind and step into the future!
More info:
* https://www.linkedin.com/company/koding
* https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/koding
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