VP of Technology

PeopleFinders.com, the premier online service for consumers to locate, contact and verify people and businesses. Over the past couple of decades the Company has quietly become one of the largest owners of public records data in the country, distributing its products over a vast network of websites.

The VP of Technology provides leadership, management, direction, full-stack development architecture skills and vision to the cross-functional team, including a software engineering team of web developers, QA engineers, IT, Infosec, and project management. The position works cross functionally as a member of the executive team to direct the successful completion and delivery of software application products and services. The position reports ongoing progress to the CEO. Additional responsibilities include oversight of the department budget, identifying and build out of team and talent, as well as defining resource requirements and allocations.

Salary

$180K -$210K

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee all of Technology, ensuring alignment with Product Development, defining metrics to measure team success, and remaining accountable for the team's results.
• Define, structure, and manage the technology department, including all staffing and performance activities.
• Lead the team to continuously improve agile/scrum environment to maximize quality and velocity while delivering customer value through multiple concurrent projects, on time and within budget.
• Work as a member of the executive leadership team to effectively prioritize projects to align with company initiatives.
• Ensure prompt responses to urgent issues that are client and revenue impacting with leading customer-facing communication relating to customer experience and product availability.
• Foster a culture of ownership and responsibility for our products within and across teams.
• Lead architecture decisions of front-end web development, API application development of micro services.
• Represent the Technology team, partnering with product, operations, client relations, etc. in cross-company initiatives and issues.
• Provide ongoing visibility to the rest of the executive leadership team.
  
  

Required qualifications include:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with management of cross-functional team including web development, system engineers, software engineering, QA engineers, QA testers, technical professional services.
• 3+ years of experience in leadership/management roles, including experience managing a team of multiple disciplines.
• 5+ years hands on experience architecting/developing API Services and web-based applications within highly available, complex technical infrastructures and enterprise architecture.
• 5+ years delivering products using Agile software development
• A proven track record of maintaining a workplace that attracts and retains top engineering talent.
• Previous experience aligning software engineering within a product-driven environment.
• Prior experience in a highly-regulated industry with routine audits, including PCI-DSS and SOC2.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills with both technical teams and non-technical business stakeholders.
• Proven experience developing KPI's and metrics for optimal performance
• Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science or engineering.
  
  

Preferred qualifications include:

• Ecommerce experience in a B2B and/or B2C space.
• Strong knowledge of HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Strong knowledge of Public Cloud (AWS) Infrastructure
• Extensive knowledge microservices, public-facing APIs
• Strong knowledge of programming in ASP.NET/C#.
• Working knowledge in web protocols, such as HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, etc.
• Extensive knowledge in databases and queries, notably MS SQL Server and Mongo DB.