Engineering / Development Team Lead

Job updated over 5 years ago

Job Description

We are looking for an exceptional person to lead our development team in Taipei. Our plan is to build a team of 4 to start with reporting to the VP of Product and Engineering in NZ. You will be closely involved in recruiting the right talent for the new team and once onboarded, you will be leading and guiding the team to make sure they are productive and high performing.

We have a ‘best in class’ tech stack. Our platform runs on Azure, and our app is built with C#, AngularJS and TypeScript, CSS3 and HTML5.  We’re a small and collaborative product development team, and you’ll have the opportunity to contribute through your ideas and hard work. You can see the immediate impacts of your work, be involved in the challenge of growing an early stage business, and you will get a piece of the success pie through our employee share options program.

What we are looking for:

  • An experienced and skilled developer - you’ll be writing code and helping to determine the best approaches to development
  • A talented people leader who can build a great team - you’ll be able to lead a team in Taiwan while collectively working with the team in NZ
  • A developer who is comfortable managing product delivery - you’ve got experience developing and delivering software products, and can work closely with product managers and designers to get great outcomes
  • You enjoy continuous product development - you have a love of building and deploying high quality products at pace
  • You have great communication skills and a customer first mentality
  • You enjoy working in small collaborative teams
  • You have a pragmatic attitude and a willingness to get things done
  • You will be comfortable working in a different location from the core product engineering team 

Requirements

Job experience

● Ideally you have 3+ years experience in a similar role
● You have extensive people leadership experience with a small team
● You have solid experience with some of the languages we use at Wipster (depending on whether you lean more toward back end, or front end development) or you’ve got strong development skills in languages that are similar or transferable
● Experienced with SQL Server and Git
● Experienced with Agile project management concepts
● Experienced in all aspects of a continuous delivery software development lifecycle
● Ideally, experienced with cloud platforms (but not required)
● A tertiary qualification with a degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
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85,000 ~ 125,000 TWD / month
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Who are we?
Wipster (wipster.io) is a company with a simple mission - to enable companies to create and deliver better video, faster. We have a world class video collaboration and publishing platform that enables teams to review and collaborate on video content, store content in a multimedia asset library, publish content and then easily understand the results. As a company, we believe in the power of video. We do business on a global scale, with thousands of customers (like Uber, Shopify, Netflix and Tesla) in over 100 countries and have integrations with Slack, Adobe, Facebook, YouTube and more.

Originally from New Zealand, we have offices worldwide with our Product & Engineering HQ in Wellington, New Zealand and our Sales & Marketing in New York and the United Kingdom. And now, we’re looking to set up a development hub in Taiwan.

We have a ‘best in class’ tech stack. Our platform runs on Azure, and our app is built with C#, AngularJS and TypeScript, CSS3 and HTML5.