PASHpost.com

Los Angeles, CA | Posted: 4 years ago

SR. DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY – LAMP

Enthusiast platform PASHpost has an extraordinary opportunity for an experienced, edgy Sr. Director Technology with proven development and management skills to join the first-ever platform Built exclusively for Enthusiasts. As a critical senior member of the Management Team, you’ll have a seat at the investor’s table with substantial stock option/equity upside. (Management has unicorn exit.)

Responsibilities

• Leading, developing and managing IT Roadmap and Strategic Plan for full product lifecycle with Developers (PHP/CodeIgniter), UIUX Designers/Developers and QA Analysts including all new product releases and platform maintenance and iterations
• Managing and executing best software engineering practices including coding, server technologies, site reliability and performance engineering, analytics engineering, research, security, client and server playlists/metafiles, customer media player creative
• Streamlining all B2C web & mobile client applications into a unified, mobile-first content management system hosting an increasingly broad spectrum of UGC, news and video content
• Staying informed of the latest-and-greatest new 3rd party software products to identify vendors and external technologies

Technical Leadership Experience

• 2+ years managing and building technical roadmaps including planning and implementing successful corporate growth strategies while achieving corporate mission and product delivery objectives
• 4+ years proficiency in all phases of software engineering (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing while managing time-sensitive and long-term projects
• 3+ years MySQUL designing schemas & writing optimized queries
• 2+ years platform infrastructure and data pipeline management using AWS including EC2, Apache, RDS, S3, Lambda, Thumpr/Magic, CloudFront & ElasticiCache
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related
• Master’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related highly desirable

Competencies

• Demonstrated leadership experience leading engineering team – ability to work collaboratively, inspiring and empowering others while bringing out the best in your team
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills
• Ambitious, creative and self-motivated
• Ability to work flexible hours to accomplish objectives