Organizational Requirement:
Vice President of Engineering: passionate about Products.
About Hotelogix:
Hotelogix is well positioned to become the leading hospitality tech player in South Asia and the South East Asian Markets. This would mean that Hotelogix would be the leading product in the hospitality vertical which is a complete ERP for the hotel on the cloud. It seeks a phenomenally talented technical leader to manage all technology decision-making and development on its way to achieving its goal. Seldom do such rare opportunities emerge that allow the right person to help shape a company’s technology strategy and to drive its execution, and simultaneously drive the growth of the largest industry to ever undergo such widespread transformation.
Description of the Role:
Hotelogix seeks an experienced software development leader, an executive who can step in and lead our fast growing, dynamic engineering team, deliver timely product releases to the market, and execute the roadmap which promises to make this product the leader in its space.
The individual will need to take decisions in all facets to achieve the goal of delivering a world class product. These decisions would be related to recruitment of right talent, using appropriate development methodologies, and creating the proper organizational structure, driving performance, with the right agility and quality driving product leadership.
This person will keep abreast of technology trends, standards, and stakeholders which will further enhance adoption and market share of Hotelogix, and work in tandem with the other members of the executive team as well to further define our roadmap and deliver against it.
This person should have the ability to bridge technology with business acumen, bring experience in developing vertical SaaS Enterprise applications, and develop and sustain a culture of passion, hard-work, and innovation that will make Hotelogix the place to be for anyone interested in developing Hospitality industry’s leading SaaS Products.
Role Responsibilities:
This role has a responsibility for the overall engineering, testing, and delivery for our entire SaaS based Product lines for the hospitality industry. The current products are made on a variety of web/mobile technologies. Our production environment is spread across multiple datacenters in multi-zonal setup with high availability, failover mechanisms that are in a highly secured environment.
Technology stacks on which our products are developed: PHP, Java, MongoDB, Postgres, Node JSP, AWS SQS, Apache, Angular, jQuery, YUI 1.0, MYSQL 5.6, GIT, Load Balancer HAProxy, Rabbit MQ, Active MQ, Qing Framework, Tomcat.
Organizational Responsibilities:
● Providing overall strategy and technology direction for the development of applications and communication infrastructure supporting the Company’s solutions.
● Strategic planning for all product development efforts to include the subsequent testing, release and production environment needs.
● Overseeing all activities of the development groups (development, QA, and application release)
● Planning the overall architecture of our products and support infrastructure including day-to-day operations in conjunction with other teams such as IT, Support Operations, Product and Marketing.
● Adopting process-based working for every aspect of development and with other teams.
● Establishing departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
● Staying abreast of new technologies and issues in the software-as-a-service industry including current technologies, platforms, standards, and methodologies, and keeping products risk free by not using technologies that are facing end of life.
● Recruiting, managing and continuously developing through leadership and collaborative team building a world-class team of technology professionals viewed as the leader in the Hospitality industry.
● Participating in the strategic business, product planning process and budgets for the engineering department.
● Being an active spokesperson and evangelist both internally and externally by communicating and promoting the Company’s technology vision and solutions
● Ensuring the knowledge sharing of engineering best practices across departments; and developing and monitoring technical standards to ensure adherence to them.
Executive Competencies:
● Previous senior leadership roles in product development and engineering for high growth product companies along with leadership of development teams with great product delivery.
● Proven experience as a leader in developing, deploying, and supporting software as a service/platform as a service solution to global enterprises.
● Proven ability to recruit the talented developers and provide them with a vision and working environment to develop world-class applications while instituting compelling performance measurements that continually drive transparency and improved performance
● Experience in working with Product teams and contributing towards product roadmap.
● Excellent communication skills, strong team player, and the ability to work cross functionally in a fast-paced, high-productivity start-up environment
● Experience in Agile development methodology
● Experience in multiple web and mobile technologies
● Experience in a multi-product, multi-application development environment
● Experience with globally distributed teams and business partners
● Experience in managing both mainstream development and R&D activities
● Experience in development with open source technologies
● Experience in building and maintaining applications that are mission critical for customers
● BE/MS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related fields
● 12+ years of product engineering experience
● Previous senior leadership roles in product development and engineering for high growth companies
● Excellent communication skills, strong team player, and the ability to work cross functionally in a fast-paced, high-productivity start-up environment