A bit about who we are:
We are Impraise, a team of international hackers, business hustlers
and creative brains based in New York and Amsterdam. We are backed by
the world's most renown startup accelerator, Y Combinator.
We are on a mission to change the way people collaborate at work and
enable every company to create high-performing and engaging work
environments. We care about feedback, design and beautiful products.
We are probably one of the most international startup teams of our
size, 20+ nationalities. We really enjoy to work with ambitious people,
value open communication across different cultures and learning from
each other, both personally and professionally. Check out our Culture Video to discover who we are
A little more about what we do:
At Impraise we are redefining how people can learn quicker and
workplaces become more engaging by enabling real-time feedback between
co-workers. Impraise is a web-based and mobile solution for actionable,
real-time feedback in the workplace. Often, performance reviews are
carried out once or twice a year, which doesn’t support employees’
continuous learning. Our clients such as Atlassian, Booking.com and
Shopify want to build transparent work environments in which people can
learn everyday and work better as a team.
Real-time feedback allows people to better analyze their strengths
and opportunities, track their progress and pursue their personal and
professional goals on a continual basis.
Your team’s challenge:
You’ll be working with and leading the development teams. They are
currently on a mission to build a product that sets a new standard in
the market with regard to the way people and organizations handle
performance management and personal development. The teams aim to build a
product that perfectly integrates workflows between managers and
employees. Additionally, as we are rapidly growing in number of clients
and we partner with more and more larger enterprise clients, the teams
are focused on building a product that scales with the growth of user
numbers and customer requirements.The challenge we would like you to
solve in this role: The current team exist of 12 engineers. Your mission
will be to recruit, train, guide and inspire an effective and engaged
engineering team that builds high-quality technology that enables us to
achieve our mission.
A bit about you:
This role requires wise eyes, broad shoulders and a thick skin. For
that reason we think you should have substantial experience in the
software industry, in different phases of the business lifecycle,
ideally during a hyper-growth stage of a software startup.
Crucial to your success is that you have led at least one larger
engineering team and have been a central part of a wider executive team
within a business. We want to be able to learn from you on day one. You
know how to manage - motivate, inspire, and mentor engineers. And you
know how to communicate your vision on technology and the details of
implementation to non-technical team colleagues at all levels.
You are a people’s person who naturally knows how to connect and
motivate engineers. Ideally you come from a background in software
development, with solid coding experience that gives you credibility
with engineers. Tech leads, across the business, will in the future
report to you and will need guidance, training, and feedback. Product
owners will need to feel your influence as you help them to create
small, well-defined stories and prioritise work carefully for their
teams. You will need knowledge, born from experience, of how to design
and ship complex features across the whole stack. You will need to have a
deep connection to one or more engineering communities, from which you
can draw inspiration, information, and hiring contacts.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to be in love with
our mission to redefine how people learn and improve at work. This is
very important. If you don’t connect with our product and plan, it’s not
going to work.
What we expect you to know and do from day one:
Software Engineering Leadership
- Build a high-performing engineering environment where top performers
are encouraged to take decisions and workflows are designed to let them
work in the most productive ways. Bottom performers, if there are any,
will receive strong improvement plans.
- Guarantee a process that helps achieve results and keeps the team as a whole in the right direction
- Review and then continuously improve our development practices across the business
- Introduce tools, systems and processes to improve our code quality and standards
- Develop and improve our testing and deployment processes
- Foster best-practices on QA process within the teams
- Identify skill gaps and strengths and facilitate training and skill sharing
- Train, guide, and hire technology leaders (both technical and managerial) across the team
Roadmapping and cross company leadership
- Collaborate closely with colleagues in Product, Design and Marketing
to find opportunities for technology to improve quality, pace and
innovation
- Be the leading voice for technology during Roadmap discussions with the Product Manager(s) and other department heads
Delivery Process Improvement
- Support our product owners, tech leads and others in improving the pace and quality of delivery of features
- Mentoring and coaching of future tech leads
- Supporting measurement and continuous improvement in delivery
- Establish key metrics for team’s accountability
Skills and training
- Develop our internal technology skills development programme across the whole business
- Develop our engineering ladder and internal mentoring and career development processes
- Find opportunities for our engineering team to publish and speak at industry events
- Identify areas for company and individual skills improvements
Hiring & building the engineering organization
- Design the engineering org chart for engineering based on the business’s needs
- Own the hiring pipeline for engineering roles in collaboration with our recruiter
- Develop technical testing processes
- Build the engineering employer brand
- Advocate for Impraise across the industry
Guide Architecture Development
- With the help of our technical architects within the organisation, review and then own the technology roadmap
- Improve documentation and maintenance of our systems
- Make sure our technical architects have a coherent architectural
roadmap across our creative platform, storefront, print ops, data
warehouse and other systems
- Review and manage 3rd party technology suppliers
What we expect you to do in 6 months:
Within six months we expect that you’ve become a central member of
the company - the go to person for the bigger picture around the
engineering organization and technical roadmap. You make and influence
technical decisions in order to support our company strategy. We expect
you’ll be a respected leader of the engineering team, taking leadership
of technical projects and skills development. We expect you’ll have
become a powerful external advocate for the company and have supported
the creation of a robust hiring pipeline. You’ll have defined a clear,
compelling vision for the growth of our engineering that supports our
wider commercial ambitions.
Finally, we are sure you’ll be having a lot of fun and learning a
huge amount about how to build a high growth, high performance, high joy
business that’s helping people unleash their potential at work.
What we offer:
- Market competitive salary plus stock option plan
- Professional Development Allowance & Health Allowance
- Lunch arranged every day at the office
- Commute coverage in case you live far from the office
- Company provided laptop and equipment
- Work from our office in the center of Amsterdam
- A meaningful problem to solve that delivers true value for users
- A mission-driven team that aims to have a long lasting impact in the market
- Be at the core of a scaling company and impactful product
- Talented and fun colleagues: serial entrepreneurs, psychologists,
and people from companies like Google, Lyft, Accenture, and Bloomberg.
