VP Engineering - Brazil/Latin America - Remote

About FINN

At FINN our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While our customers drive, we plant trees as every journey is CO2 compensated.

Position

Reporting to the CTO, you build and lead up to 4 distributed engineering teams. You start from scratch and lay the foundation for best engineering practices. You ensure a vision and technical strategy catered to our US market together with your Tech Leads.

Why FINN?

• With massive growth potential, FINN allows you to quickly develop and succeed in a highly motivating startup environment with ambitious challenges in cross-functional teams 
• Excellent fixed salary, significant virtual equity share of the company, along a yearly personal development budget of US $3,500
• Our team is known for loads of fun and we have and frequent team events to strengthen our connection
• At FINN you have complete autonomy over your choice of equipment, accessories, editors, tools, and technology 

Your Responsibilities

• Lead a world-class engineering team: You are responsible to build and lead your team. You will go the extra mile to coach and develop the team members on a daily basis
• Enable the growth of FINN: Together with your cross-functional engineering teams, you ship new features for our cloud platform. Thereby, you actively participate in delivering the best software possible for our customers and business units
• Strive for excellence: Strive to deliver the best possible user experience and to follow engineering best practices
• Build it, run it: Build features with a ‘build it, run it’ mindset and be responsible for testing, deploying, and monitoring your code. We believe in Serverless!
• Contribution to FINN's overall strategy: As a part of the executive team you contribute to FINN's overall strategic planning to support its future growth

Your qualification

• 3+ years of experience in a multi-team lead role, with more than 6 direct reports (30+ indirect reports) 
• Proven track record with 5+ years of software engineering experience in larger projects preferably B2B, B2C, or SaaS products
• Profound knowledge of React, Python, NodeJS or Go 
• Ideally you graduated with a Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Passion for shipping CI/CD
• You are located in Brazil or +/- 3 hours of Eastern Standard Time (EST)