VP Engineering USA - 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

FINN makes mobility fun and sustainable. With a flexible car subscription, we bring a true e-commerce experience to car ownership and offset all CO2 emissions along the way. Join our fast-growing startup to build the most popular auto e-commerce platform. We work with the best car brands in the world and are backed by leading global investors.

Your Role

Reporting to the CTO, you lead up to 4 distributed engineering teams. You ensure a vision and technical strategy for the US engineering teams together with your Tech Leads.

Your Benefits

• 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

• Graduated top of your class with a Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent from a top-tier university 
• 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, Go or NodeJS
• Passion for shipping CI/CD