indi VP Engineering

About indi

indi is our one of a kind digital banking product targeted at self-employed customers who are part of the rapidly growing gig-economy space. We are building a product to address the challenges faced by those customers in a unique way. The indi product is hosted on a public cloud and leverages a cutting edge technology stack and vendors. Learn more at goindi.com.

indi is seeking a VP of Engineering to join our leadership team

indi is growing rapidly and we are seeking a VP of Software Engineering to help us further build out our development team. We need a skilled, passionate, experienced, hands-on software leader to help us recruit the team and refine all aspects of our software development processes. You’ll be leading a group of engineering talent to deliver and grow a technical stack complete with an API, mobile app and website, to provide a best in class experience to our banking customers.

As VP of Engineering, you’ll also:

• Set the team vision. You understand the direction of the company, align and translate it into a team plan.
• Deliver business impact. You work with product, design, and customer experience partners to identify success metrics, and design and execute concrete action plans.
• Build and grow the team. You attract top talent to the shared vision of the team, and can create and refine the team structure to scale. At the same time, you mentor and coach individual contributors to grow both technically and managerially. You should have a mature strategy and philosophy in hiring, and should have successful track records of bootstrapping productive teams.
• Collaborate with and influence other teams. You share and communicate roadmaps with external teams, and understand and align team goals to collectively deliver results efficiently.
• Establish software delivery strategy for your team by leveraging agile and other best practices in the industry.  

What we’re looking for:

• 7+ years’ experience working in software engineering
• 3+ years managing software engineering teams at scale
• Experience building mobile or web applications end to end
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Expertise in modern architectures (e.g., microservices, event-based, map-reduce, etc.) and building scalable APIs
• Experience with deploying and developing for cloud environments (AWS)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity for meaningful equity
• Work remotely, or on site in Pittsburgh
• Great benefits