We are Sortly, a simple, modern, easy-to-use inventory application for businesses. Thousands of businesses including teams at Apple, Lyft, Netflix, Facebook and other very cool companies use Sortly to keep track of various physical things. We are financially independent and positioned to grow, with experienced advisors from 500 Startups, Salesforce, Oracle, etc. We are looking for sharp people to help power our attack on a $20+ billion market.


Having attained a solid revenue trajectory, we're now building out our management strength to mature and scale the engineering team. You will be our first hire to take over the responsibility from the founders, so they can focus on moving the company faster. To do so successfully, you will have to earn their trust and become indispensable. You will be responsible for all aspects of product delivery and technical operations.

Responsibilities:

First and foremost, you will be the one responsible for running smooth operation of all things technical, including a reliable 24x7 platform, engineering operations, and product delivery.

Engineering

• day-to-day guidance, oversight, and management of our distributed teams

• delivery of regular, timely, quality releases

• day-to-day operations of the systems, apps, website, infrastructure

• mature our Engineering org to be more responsive, reliable and transparent

• improve and establish engineering best-practices

• active collaboration with stakeholders (CEO, Marketing, Product, etc)

Technology:

• build out and improve our technology platform and its parts

• maintain a coherent systems view of our platform and its components, and ensure it is understood among engineering, manifested in code

• proactively seek out and implement our future technology vision

Must have demonstrable experience with:

• shipping mixed-technology, multi-part systems / platforms which contain a substantial mobile component

• delivering enterprise / SaaS, which are secure, performant and scalable

• managing engineers, QA, outsourced relationships, etc.

• proactive communication and transparency in all directions

• established software engineering practices including agile development, CI / CD, release management, etc.

• the customary tooling: cloud, devops, databases, CI / CD, frameworks, repositories, etc.

• delivering to SLAs

• working with remote teams

Nice to have:

• RoR

• iOS (Swift) & Android (Kotlin)

• Javascript

• devops + cloud

• enterprise access control systems / models

• billing systems