Endurance International - Vice President - Engineering

About the Company:

Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) is the premier platform for small businesses to create an online presence and thrive in the digital marketplace. Some of our brands include Constant Contact, Bluehost, Domain.com and Sitebuider/Hostgator. We are a global company with offices throughout the US, India, Brazil and the Philippines. We have a passion for small business, and we go the extra mile to make sure our employees and customers feel this passion. We are making significant investments in the organization and looking to bring on smart, motivated and passion people in all functional areas of the company.

What You Will Be Doing:

- Reporting directly to the CTO, the Vice President of Engineering is expected to contribute to business strategy utilizing the Core Engineering Platforms, Information Technology & Business Systems to create business value, operational efficiencies, and competitive differentiation.

- As part of the Engineering/Technology Organization at Endurance you will help build and scale the teams at Endurance India. The Vice President Engineering is a core member of the senior leadership team and is responsible for setting the strategy and driving cross-functional needs by being well versed with industry trends and emerging technologies.

- In this role, the VP Engineering will oversee the engineering teams in APAC, supporting both local platform development initiatives (ResellerClub, BigRock) as well as enterprise wide initiatives as part of a global development center.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Instill and drive a delivery-focused culture while promoting a fun, hardworking workplace environment

- Drive recruiting and the professional development of developers on team

- Help teams scope and create project plans around key business initiatives

- Reinforce developmental best practices for quality assurance and deployment

- Verify that systems and practices are compliant to internal and external specifications.

Strategic Planning:

- Jointly own the development and execution of EIG's target state architectures and team structure, working closely with the business and tech leadership.

- Create, implement, and document strategic architecture vision and tactical directions for engineering teams.

- Evaluate and determine the balance between in sourced vs. outsourced models.

- Effectively work with stakeholders across various locations to help build off shore capabilities and teams in APAC.

Business Collaboration:

- Establish strong working relationships with senior business, operations and technology leaders in the capacity of a trusted advisor.

- Engage business and process owners and lead the collaborative planning effort to leverage emerging technologies for addressing strategic enterprise goals.

- Establish data management strategies and policies in conjunction with various functional teams.

- Collaborate with the divisional financial officers to monitor budget forecasting and variance and ensure overall operations and projects are on track and within budget.

People management:

- Recruit, retain and build teams across various technology functions.

- Manage engineering & development organization for global projects across various technologies in APAC

- Create and implement team's annual deliverables/objectives, performance goals, and empower them to deliver on EIG's strategic priorities and objectives.

- Select, develop and motivate a high talent team.

- Promote teamwork and leadership behaviors within own group, other peer groups, and across EIG.

- Conduct and lead applicable governance and project status review meetings.

- Create a collaborative partnership among executive leaders and portfolio stakeholders between offshore and on-shore team.

Requirements:

- Over 15 years of experience leading and inspiring large teams, with demonstrable ability to work across a global matrix and ability to put strong communication, leadership and influencing skills to work

- Proven experience in a senior leadership role managing product portfolios across multiple geographies

- An active listener with the demonstrated ability to proactively and confidently engage with global key stakeholders to gain an understanding of the business and evolving Technical needs.

- Develop and recommend innovative and cost-effective solutions

- Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams in a matrix organization structure working.

- Scrum and agile enthusiast along with understanding of other methodologies including Kanban

- Technical savvy and able to contribute to technical conversations, decisions, and strategies, with experience in performing technical and business tradeoffs between technologies

- Familiarity with a broad mix of technologies including but not limited to Java, Javascript, React.JS, MySQL, AWS/Google Cloud, Linux, and a range of open source libraries.

- Experienced in quality practices, techniques, and tools at all layers of the stack.

- Experience with high availability, high-scale, performance systems

- Must have the ability to analyze problems and resolve conflicts.

- Ability to influence without direct authority.

- Travel upon request

What's in it for you?

We offer a tremendous opportunity to work with great people and do great things. If you are the driven and adaptable person described above, possess a demonstrable history of delivering quality work, and are fun to be around, then we have a place for you!

Benefits & Perks

Endurance employees love their jobs, and not just because we offer the most competitive salaries in the industry. Our excellent benefits include everything from great medical and life insurance to catered meals. We've also thoughtfully put in a gym to burn all those calories later. We have no dress code (tee-shirts are a-ok!). We have flexible work hours and flexible holidays, which mean that teams pick their own work hours. We are passionate about building the next generation of web products, and we believe that happy teams are the key to achieving this goal. If you like the idea of working in an exciting workspace on cutting-edge internet products that make a truly global impact (and wearing flip-flops to work), then we want to get to know you.