Vice President of Engineering - HoldCo

Company: Alpine SG
Location: Walnut Creek
Posted on: February 13, 2021

Job Description:

ASG is an unconventional group of market-leading SaaS software companies, serving industries ranging from behavioral health to transportation to childcare. The company has acquired 20+ businesses since its inception in August of 2016, with triple digit growth over the past three years. We are backed by Alpine Investors and operated by world-class PeopleFirst--- leaders. ASG believes deeply in the power of people and data to grow great organizations, and that sharing knowledge, expertise, and resources across its community of businesses drives exponential growth. Founders of leading SaaS companies continue to trust ASG to grow their businesses and build even stronger legacies for the future. To learn more, visit www.alpinesg.com . Job Description We are looking for a VP of engineering to help us grow our engineering management function. To date, ASG has acquired more than 30 companies across a wide range of technologies and cloud infrastructures. We are looking for a Rockstar engineering leader, passionate about community building, knowledgeable in a wide range of stacks, and interested in bringing SMB's to the next level. Through this role, you will have the opportunity to deploy strategies, support growth, and learn best practices from over 30 technology teams. As part of the ASG engineering, you will be helping SMBs scale to a new stage of growth. You will get an opportunity to understand a wide array of tech stacks and software products through acquisitions and get to deploy a diverse set of growth strategies throughout the hold period of our investments. While learning from and pairing with extraordinary leaders across our business. The ideal candidate should have experience working in M&A or diligence processes, as we expect to continue to buy, build, and bolster even more companies in the coming years. The role will report directly to the CTO of ASG.-- Responsibilities

• Lead Tech diligence vendors and provide a succinct view into the tech maturity.
• Improve post acquisition remediation and our playbook for the CEO to make forward-looking technical decisions based on current business needs.--
• Provide Cloud enablement strategies, review capital requirements for tech investments, and right-size estimates.
• Be an engineering thought partner to over 30 CEOs/CTOs/Technical Leaders across the ASG portfolio who are driving substantial technical change in their business and looking to ASG Engineering for guidance on their people, process and techAct as a change champion and own the adoption of evolving engineering processes and methodologies.
• Develop individuals advancing their technical, business, and professional skills to crush their technology roadmap
• Create internal communities and foster centers of excellence groups among the ASG Companies.
• Act as a solutions architect for companies. Solutioning common business challenges like Payments, BI, Data Lakes, and Cloud IaaS to PaaS adoption.
• Be an effective teacher/coach and help train our teams on engineering best practices. Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Master's in Computer Science and or MBA preferred
  • Minimum of 10+ years experience in highly trafficked websites or mobile apps.
  • Minimum of 5+ years leading and/or managing interdisciplinary development teams at the Director level
  • Strong Knowledge in core languages .Net, C#, Java, Ruby, PHP, Node, and typical SPA frameworks.
  • Strong Knowledge of core Data Stores, SQL, Oracle, Postgres, Dynamo, Mongo, Redis, etc.
  • Fluent in multi-cloud orchestration and deployments AWS, Azure, GCP.
  • Experience managing all areas of the tech stack, front-end, back-end, middle-tier and managing monolith to microservices conversions.
  • Knowledge and experience in best-practices engineering processes, methodologies, platforms such as Agile, Service Oriented Architecture, separation of concern, redundancy, and high scalability.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships.
  • Experience Managing P&L's, engineering budgets, and forecasting.
  • Experience in building, engaging, retaining teams and influencing outcomes. Personal Characteristics
    • Highly Strategic - Able to articulate a succinct strategy to Engineering and non-Engineering audiences.
    • Financially Literacy - Displays full awareness of financial metrics, P&L cost buckets, and a deep understanding of engineering costs.
    • Analytical - Measures accomplishments by specific, measurable results.
    • Excellent communicator - Command of written and oral communication skills.
    • Excellent time management - Respectful of people's time.
    • Resourceful/action orientation - Willing to roll up their sleeves and get things done with limited resources.
    • Growth Mindset - Maintain a commitment to continuous learning .
    • Team Player - Puts self-interests aside and stands shoulder to shoulder with peers to get the job done. Other Information
      • Location: Flexible, prefer Bay Area
      • Compensation: Competitive
      • Other Benefits: 401k matching, medical, dental/vision healthcare coverage, FSA, unlimited PTO, sick days, and holidays
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