Engineering Manager (VSF Application)

OK, so let's start with a few words about Vue Storefront.

Vue Storefront is a Frontend Platform for Headless Commerce, which was built with an open-source mindset and the trust of a global community. It is the result of our effort to provide developers with modern and forward-thinking technical solutions crafted to meet common eCommerce industry challenges. 

Vue Storefront started in 2017 as a bottom-down initiative from Divante agency developers who were looking for ways to make things faster, easier, and more effective. The available solutions didn’t meet their expectations so they created their own.

Today, Vue Storefront is not only the biggest and the fastest growing Frontend for eCommerce, it’s a whole ecosystem of frontend services that can work together or independently. Each of the services addresses a key component of your development cycle while building eCommerce storefronts – from Build to Launch. 

Location: Remote, Europe

About the team:

In the VSF Application, we are self-organized and highly autonomous. We are working on Product dedicated to Frontend UI libraries & eCommerce Integrations in order to enhance our product for headless commerce platforms.

Tech stack:

TypeScript Node.js, Apollo Server, Express Vue, React GraphQL, REST GitHub Actions GCP, CDN, Redis Monorepo - Turborepo, Lerna, NPM packages publishing

What will you be doing in this role?

• This role is a senior engineering management role in Vue Storefront. You will be developing team members into engineers
• Building products - the ones you would like to use yourself
• Caring for standards, best practices, and tool adoption, as well as cross-training resources
• Coaching, performance development, one-on-one meetings, mentoring, and general career counseling for your team
• Prioritizing ruthlessly the core projects of your teams
• Driving and managing your teams’ performance against SLAs and KPIs, including metric reporting on team performance
• Working with our core infrastructure both from technical standpoint (how to grow and optimize it)
• Own roadmap for our SAAS part of product and our hosting part of product and work with product manager on best way to impact roadmap
• Working with your teams (2-3) on a daily basis to achieve best output to create scalable solutions/architectures around hosting and storefront management plane
• Promoting a culture of continuous improvement across the teams in the product development teams
• Effectively influencing stakeholders, win trust, present technical ideas and high-level concepts and solutions to audiences with different depths of technical knowledge.
• Proactively contributing to the product roadmap and engineering best practices.

What do we expect you to have?

• A demonstrated track record in managing a high-performance Engineering teams - preferably +3 years
• Experience in Series A,B,C tech startup or in a scaling organization experiencing exponential growth
• Willingness for motivating people to go beyond and above, you live execution and delivery
• Experience in building and shipping products that your users loved
• Sharing the love of both tech and product. You try to get the HOW to best answer the what.
• Openness for talking about sharding strategies or requirements for multi-tenant or single tenant applications, but at the same time you can talk about shape of UI in the product you deliver
• Past experience as a individual contributor, but chose to grow as a people manager and enjoy working with product
• Great communications skills - being clear, concise and to the point - you enjoy delivering the message - to your teams, to other teammates, to your senior stakeholders and … to the users as well
• Fluent English (at least C1)
• Sharing our values:    - Vibe - you say what does not fit. You give feedback, and you listen to critical feedback as well.   - Self-driven - everyone's opinion is essential, but ownership is more important. You understand that someone has to take responsibility for the decision and how it affects the whole product or company.   - Focus - you stay aligned with what and how we act as a company. You move your WIGs (Wildly Important Goals) further. You take responsibility for your work and overlook the health of that area.

What else would be appreciated?

• Previous experience of working in a startup and ideally joined in seed/A and stayed till C/exit series of investment
• Open source product development
• Previous experience as a software architect
• Experience in MACH

What can you expect?

• Senior and experienced team
• Budget and tools for your skills Growth
• Fully Remote work with flexible working hours
• Values-driven culture, friendly and supportive work environment
• Contract type tailored to your need
• Engagement: it’s full-time engagement in every case
• Ability to regularly attend conferences and community events, both as participant and contributor
• Flat organizational structure: it helps to focus on what’s essential - have no barriers in communication, no Corpo-language, no going things around, no need to do things differently than most smartly and efficiently.
• Relations: VSF values healthy relations and spends time together - e,.g. two weeks with your teammates and families on Tenerife and team events?
• Benefits: contract type depending on your decision, Medicover medical care package, access to the pool of courses, time to time workation, flexible working hours, working from wherever you want.

Join us if you feel that it's time for you to join VSF’s extraordinarily enthusiastic and successful team!