Venture Head of Engineering

1 week ago

San Francisco, California, United States UP Full time
Unlock the Potential of Aviation Tech Startups

As a Venture Head of Engineering at UP.Labs, you'll play a key role in building new startups from 0 to 1 and leading teams. You'll act as a technical architect and chief executor on our engineering team ventures in the airline space, responsible for the technical design and delivery of products and businesses.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead our airline venture engineering team to address genuine, real-world business problems in the aviation space
  • Build, grow, and operate successful airline tech startups, working alongside venture leadership, our airline corporate partner, and other cohorts
  • Design and deliver impactful solutions to complex problems, using code or otherwise
  • Create rapid proofs of concept, then scale into functional MVPs to turn concepts into tangible reality
  • Mentor and support effective teams, not hesitating to get into the weeds when needed, oftentimes writing and reviewing code with them
  • Cross-pollinate learnings, best practices, and insights between multiple ventures to drive continuous improvement of Engineering at UP.Labs
Requirements:
  • 7+ years full-stack software engineering experience with experience leading and developing engineering teams preferred
  • Familiarity and preference working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments such as startups and growth-phase tech companies
  • Hands-on and end-to-end product build, development, and delivery experience with a mix of customer interfaces (e.g., web, mobile), languages, and technologies
  • Experience working with or managing remote, distributed teams, including full-time engineers and vendors/contractors
  • The ability to build scalable, high-quality, distributed services
  • Experience working with agile, lean, and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
  • Experience building cloud-native software architectures
  • Strong experience in collaborating with Product teams to find effective solutions
  • Strong communication skills, used to explain technical vision and deeply technical concepts to a variety of multidisciplinary team members
  • An open, curious, and humble mindset that builds on to our open, inclusive, and collaborative environment
Desired Competencies:
  • Aviation-industry professional experience, ideally within software technology
  • Experience with any deep tech - AI, ML, NLP, etc.

We use a range of technologies, including React, React Native, Play, Django, TensorFlow, Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CircleCI, Terraform, and AWS. However, you'll have the option to choose the best tool for the job, so don't consider this list exhaustive or immutable.

At UP.Labs, we build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.

We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of mobility-focused ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture's life cycle: from ideation to minimum viable product build (and beyond) to recruiting and hiring the full-time team who will scale the business.

We rapidly ideate concepts from scratch and vet them for early indicators of product-market fit.

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