Founding Engineer - Technical co-founder
18 days ago
Minneapolis
Job Description As the Founding Engineer for HireScale, you will be responsible for executing a comprehensive technology strategy on a consulting basis to align with business goals and growth plans. This is a unique opportunity to lead and inspire a talented technology platform for the future-of-work and own the tech direction for an early stage startup. Ideally, in this role we're looking for a developer hungry to make a positive impact on the future-of-work, and eventually become our CTO. Role: • Develop and execute a comprehensive technology strategy tailored to the company's business objectives, scalability and operational efficiency, • Create and manage the technology budget, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring cost-effective solutions, • Oversee the design and implementation of robust technical architectures, ensuring alignment with business requirements, security standards and industry’s best practices, • Establish and maintain efficient and reliable technology operations, including systems infrastructure, network, data management and security protocols for high performance, uptime and data integrity, • Develop and implement disaster recovery plans and business continuity strategies, • Identify and mitigate technology-related risks, ensuring data privacy and security regulations compliance, • Stay aware of the latest tech advancements to provide strategic insights and recommendations, • Build-out dashboards, talent profiles, subscription access, permissions, headless cms, hiring projects, workflows and eventually AI features Responsibilities • Identifying and evaluating the latest technologies, assessing their potential for strategic advantage and business impact, • Collaborating closely with executive leadership, business units, and stakeholders to understand their technology needs and drive technology-enabled business initiatives, • Providing strong leadership and guidance to the technology teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning, • Accelerating innovation initiatives to enhance our products, services and processes for optimum efficiency, • Managing relationships with technology vendors and partners, evaluating and selecting the most suitable solutions and services, • Overseeing the development and implementation of scalable and secure technology systems, software solutions and infrastructure Requirements: • A bachelor’s degree (masters preferred) in computer science, information technology or a related field, • 5+ years of progressively increasing experience into senior tech leadership with hands-on, coaching and mentoring abilities, • Full-stack dev skills: Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Postgres, Jenkins, • Must have a registered business entity for consulting and 1099 eligibility, • Demonstrated success in managing IT infrastructure, IT budgets, software development and systems architecture, • Deep understanding of technology trends, best practices and the startup technology space, • Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, infrastructure management, and cybersecurity best practices, • Experience driving digital transformation initiatives, leveraging cloud technologies, and implementing data-driven decision-making, • Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate business objectives into effective technology strategies, • Experience farming projects out and managing off-shore devs, • Interest or experience in work, talent or HR Tech platform is The Future of Work is Here! Work has changed due to fast shifting priorities, hiring fluctuations and talent mobility--making balancing today's workforce a highly complex equation. Existing job boards, services and products are highly fragemented and weren't designed for the wide range of ways work gets done in the future. HireScale's proprietary Future of Work Marketplace was created to match core factors like preferences for full-time or eligibility as an independent contractor, and dives even deeper into matching skills, duration, and location with the need for FTE's, dedicated, fractional or gig-based consultants. Whether the work is career oriented or requires more flexibility, HireScale's all-in-one job-site, moves the work-world forward. Now, you can work the way you want to work, or hire the way you need to hire. All while building for success, hiring responsibly, avoiding layoffs and seamlessly integrating work-life-balance. Get started today to take your workforce or career to a HireScale! Visit: Follow: