Vice President of Engineering (VP of Engineering)
Brooklyn Packet is a downtown SF based mobile social gaming startup hitting it on several fronts. First and foremost, our team is full of incredible, self-motivated people who get it. This allows us to attract and make a great home for A Players, just like you. Brooklyn Packet is also killing it from a business perspective. We’re self-funded and profitable. Our games have been downloaded in excess of 11 million times. We make beautiful, fun games for the iOS and Android platforms. We’re growing like mad in terms of users, revenue, products, and people. We’re positioned to be THE LEADER in mobile social gaming. Imagine being in at Zynga, Playdom or Facebook when they were 30 people.
Looking for people at all levels of seniority
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are seeking out a top notch VP of Engineering who will provide technical leadership in product development, architect the technology roadmap of the business, execute the roadmap, establish and maintain core development processes and develop, cohere and expand the Company’s engineering organization. Our organization is very dynamic and growing you will be instrumental in helping to scale it. You have deep technology knowledge and are able to evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms. Did we mention that you love technology, your team and building an incredible expanding organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Make technological assessments and evaluations on key points of redundancy across systems and human capital planning
- Collaborate with the executive team to assess and recommend technologies and support company organizational needs
- You'll be a key technical contributor, while leading a team of several iPhone engineers
- Personnel management, including weekly one-on-ones with direct reports, helping to guide and unblock folks on a daily basis, as well as assisting in their longer term career and skills development. You'll recruit new team members, and help us retain the great people we already have
- Project management. You'll help to scope projects and milestones into appropriate amounts of work, in aggressive but reasonable timeframes, and drive your team towards successful deliveries of some of the most widely-installed games on the best mobile platform there is
REQUIREMENTS
- Solid, senior engineering skills directly related to iPhone development including Computer Science fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
- Objective-C expertise, with knowledge of iPhone and/or Mac OS X frameworks.
- Minimum of 5 years writing code within the industry
- Over 5 years experience leading and managing a team of engineers
- Exceptional verbal, technical and customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment – yes you must be able to prioritize
- Strong aptitude for determining the optimal way to use cutting edge technology in our market place
- Build and manage a top caliber development team and oversee the development & project management with some of our top game titles
- Experience in the consumer web or games space
- Strong business and technical vision
- Enthusiasm for working in a high-profile, fast-paced startup
- BA/BS degree – CS/EE/Engineering degree or related technical discipline
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience in iPhone development
- You've made any iPhone apps or Android apps (a major plus BTW) and do please send us links of your apps
RELATED KEYWORDS
- Engineer, VP, Vice President, Engineering, Software Development, Cocoa, iPhone, UIKit, Objective-C, Xcode, Mac OS X, OpenGL, CoreGraphics, CoreAudio, iPod touch, Apple, Gaming, iPad
HOW TO APPLY
- Play our games!
- Email us at careers@brooklynpacket.com
We are awesome! You want to work here.