VP, Engineering

About us

MagicLinks powers social commerce through our exclusive marketplace for video influencers and the world’s leading brands. Our technology enables creators to share the products they love with their fans and serves leading brands seeking scalable, data-backed influencer campaign solutions, with dependable ROI and 100% sales data reporting. We are digital video natives, driven by data, passionate about the influencer community, and committed to excellence.

In 2020, we were named to the annual Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America and also became a B Corp certified company and a member of 1% for the Planet. Learn more about our Responsible Impact initiatives here.

We work hard, move fast, and have a ton of fun along the way. Come join us!


The Role

We are seeking a hands-on, detailed-oriented, and quality-minded VP Engineering to lead our team of software engineers, technical project managers, and QA engineers to architect, develop, operate, and scale our SaaS offerings. The VP Engineering will report to our Chief Product Officer to provide technology vision and execute product roadmap to drive the growth of our business.

Full-time Location: Remote in select states or Venice, CA in the heart of an inspiring and eclectic artist community

What You’ll Do

  • Provide technical guidance to and oversee the work of a team of frontend engineers, backend engineers, technical project managers, and QA engineers to ensure that work products meet technical requirements and quality standards, and follow adopted software architecture, design patterns, and coding conventions.
  • Lead software architecture and technical design to translate business requirements into SaaS that are usable, reliable, scalable, and secure.
  • Partner with product owners in agile software development process to drive software development in way that is responsive to business demands and team capacity.
  • Communicate with internal and external parties about the functionalities, design, architecture, values, and vision of the SaaS solution.
  • Budget and manage spending on software development and technology operations.
  • Keep on top of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive product roadmap and technology vision.

You have

  • 10+ years of experience leading teams in agile (scrum) software development process
  • Strong understanding of a broad range of software technologies and platforms, including most of the following stack:
  • Frontend: React, React Native, React Redux
  • Backend and API: Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, PHP, Postman  
  • Data and Logging: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redshift, Elastic, Redis, Filebeat, Logstash, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kenesis 
  • Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services
  • Excellent leadership and organizational skills
  • Experience in and value strong partnership with product to deliver desired business results
  • Lead teams of a variety of sizes, ideally having scaled an engineering org through multiple years of growth
  • A passion for developing talent
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Compensation

  • Salary + Bonus + Equity 
  • Full-time employees are eligible for full health care benefits

A Few Words on Diversity

We're equally committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and in how we show up in this world. To us, diversity means recognizing that different views and experiences are as important as those we're already familiar with. It means taking radical ownership of the things we affect as individuals and as a company - including even inherited ways of doing things which may be destructive or biased and which we must work to change. It means looking at the world and making sure we embody as many of its best qualities as we can, and striving for that as a matter of principle, not as a marketing goal we check off a list.

This is how we strive to practice We define diversity as making sure (1) our table represents people from varying backgrounds, (2) inclusion as making sure our people have a seat at the table, and (3) equity as making sure our people have the same means to get to the table in the first place. Externally, we apply the same policies to partnerships, marketing, and product development.

Ultimately, diversity goes beyond what we look like, who we are, who we love or how we think. Diversity is shorthand for an integrity-driven way of operating and growing every single day, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

You've read this far so now all that's left is hitting us with that boom-boom-pow through a killer resume and cover letter for any of our opportunities that pique your interest.

If you are interested, send us your resume to jobs@magiclinks.com

If you are interested, send us your resume to jobs@magiclinks.com