Must Have 

• 10+ years of software engineering in leadership roles. 

• Industry certifications relevant to software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months. 

• Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros. 

• Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and deliver software 

• Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking. 

• Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations. 

• Strong hands-on Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience  

• Experience/Awareness of Microservices architecture, Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing.  

• Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.  

• Conversant in multiple programming languages. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics of a microservices driven eCommerce architecture  

• Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability, and Containerization technologies  

• Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps. 

• Expertise in DevSecOps, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product.  Expertise in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support. 

• Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups. 

• Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions. 

• Undergrad degree Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 

 

Good to have: 

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 

Experience in the automotive industry and / or complex product configuration definitions.