Everdream is a technology startup delivering highly effective and reasonably priced solutions to todays paramount desktop management challenges in a software-as-a-service and managed services model.
Everdream, a well funded operation with hundreds of existing customers, has recently closed a $20 million round. Everdream is led by Mark Hoffman, a well known and highly regarded CEO, who took Sybase and Commerce One public. We are able to extend a highly competitive offer, inclusive of compensation, stock package, and comprehensive benefit plan to a qualified candidate.
We seek a candidate with a proven track record of managing successful full-cycle product developments. Expertise in SaaS, e-commerce, and CRM/ERP is a significant plus. This position reports to the Vice President of Engineering and is based in Fremont, California.
Responsibilities
Manage a team of 15+ engineers developing a highly scalable distributed desktop management system and a set of customer facing hosted applications.
Provide organizational and technical leadership and mentoring to a rapidly growing team of engineers.
Engage with the CTO, Chief Architect, product management, managed and professional services organizations to ensure alignment of technology to the business needs.
Review and contribute to requirements documents; contribute to, review and approve functional and design specifications and other forms of documentation.
Contribute to and ensure compliance with technical standards.
Help drive the improvement of the processes and infrastructure surrounding the software development lifecycle.
Participate in the IP process.
Profile
Accountability. Ability to get things done, take responsibility, and push back where appropriate.
A high level of comfort working in a rapidly changing, fast-paced startup environment.
Very high technical competence, with a track record of strong coding and individual technical accomplishments, and demonstrable ability to roll up sleeves and get your hands dirty when required.
Passion and ability to manage people. Ability to rapidly establish credibility with, build close working relationships with, motivate and energize the developers.
Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent judgment and decision making skills.
Strong influential communication skills and business acumen; comfortable arbitrating technical issues and building cross-functional relationships.
Ability to make intelligent tradeoffs, manage design degradation due to tradeoffs.
Meticulous attention to detail.
Required skills and experience
At least 10 years of overall development experience; at least 4 years of management experience; proven leadership by example of teams of 15+ engineers in a technical environment.
Knowledge of software design and architecture and required processes encompassing the full lifecycle. Deep understanding of agile development processes and project management skills are essential.
Technical domain knowledge: Knowledge of multi-tier web applications and associated standards, databases, networking and concerns such as security and performance.
Ability to code is essential. Though coding would not consume a significant part of the day, this position would require deep diving, and knowledge of languages including ASP.NET, C#, C++, T/SQL.
Knowledge of internationalization and localization aspects.
Desired skills and experience, which would be considered as an advantage
Experience developing hosted, highly available, multi-tenancy applications with knowledge of operational aspects.
Knowledge of desktop management concerns (viruses, patch management, remote control, etc) and familiarity with the desktop management space.
Knowledge of one or more enterprise application platforms (e.g. Siebel, SAP, Remedy) or BPM/BPA applications.
Datacenter experience (understanding of firewalls, load balancers, proxy servers, cache servers etc).
Education
BS CS/CE degree required; MS or equivalent experience preferred
Relocation benefits and visa sponsorship are not available for this position. Qualified candidates should forward their resume along with a cover letter to devjobs@everdreamcorp.com.
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