If you want to join a profitable, hgh-growth, bootstrapped MarTech SaaS, where you will lead our talented engineering team and be tasked with shipping code quickly and scaling the team as well as the product, then this is THE job for you.
We’re Vidalytics.com. A video marketing platform for entrepreneurs. We’re 9 years old 🎂 and growing consistently each year ;)
At a glance… 💪
- Report to the CPO
- Manage a 11-person (and growing) tech team
- Work with a total of 31 other high-performing individuals from different departments
- You will serve as the top technical leader, reporting directly to the CPO
- Kick ass, and continue to grow with us as we scale
What will it be like working at Vidalytics? 💻
This is a rare chance to step into a leadership role in a startup, where you can grow with us, but all the early pain of getting product market fit, revenue, profitability, and the team is already done. We’ve really done all of the hard work for you!
You’ll get to work on at-scale video delivery, big data, high-load infrastructure, microservices, and a MarTech SaaS.
Your New Tech Team & Stack 🚀
The engineering team is entirely in Central & Eastern Europe (from Poland to the Balkans to Ukraine). 99% of the engineers currently on the team are from Ukraine, even though they're not all living there at the moment.
Your new tech team includes: 👻😎
- 4 Sr Backend Engineers
- 8 Sr Frontend Engineers
- Of which 2 are focused solely on our hls.js player
- 4 QA Engineers
- DevOps outside agency (with the goal of bringing it in-house in the near future, but up for discussion with the right candidate)
Tech Stack:
- GCP Infrastructure (GKE)
- PHP is the dominant language
- Microservices in Slim PHP
- Monolith written in Laminas (Zend) with some Symfony Components
- React v.18 web app
- HLS.js player
- Some Golang, Node.js & a tiny bit of Python in a few places
- BigQuery, MySQL databases
Work at Scale!
Every single month Vidalytics is doing…
- 10s of millions of video plays
- 1 billion requests to our data loggers
- Around 3 petabytes in bandwidth transfer
Who You Are (Personality Type) 🦁
- You are super tech savvy — especially with our tech stack: PHP, React, microservices & GCP.
- You’ve run tech teams in the past, scaled them and had them deliver code regularly.
- Agile is your middle name — you keep everything in Jira, with estimates, you use standups, and can tell us a velocity we can rely on.
- Accountable to deadlines and results. You get results, even when the unexpected arises.
- Team empowerment approach of guiding team members, not command and control, but constantly raising the collective knowledge of the team, so they can see the big picture.
- You have strong emotional intelligence (EQ) – You know how to handle tough convos; you do not get stressed out, angry or attack anyone.
- You embody Vidalytics’ values (see below, and no, these aren’t just things we say to sound good, they are how we run the company)
- You are reliable. You show up when you say you will, and get shit done.
- Ownership & accountability — you take ownership of issues and see them through to the end. Even if they “don’t belong to you.”
- “Figure it out” skill - you can dive into code you haven’t seen before and debug even the most gnarly of problems.
What You’ll Be Doing (Job Tasks) 😃
Shipping code — our goal is to get to weekly releases or more frequent… We want to get the team aligned to ship features fast with minimal bugs or scalability issues.
Be the ultimate authority on our system (in time) — for how it works, so that you can dive in and help unravel any gnarly bugs and issues.
Architecture — Most of our devs can come up with elegant code, but you’ll just help ensure our code base is scalable.
Lead & manage the tech team — you’ll be on top of all people’s work, deadlines, and can answer why something is taking too long.
Head up tech strategy — you, with the Head of Product & the CEO, will help balance between features and tech debt. While delivering value to our users and making sure our product is still reliable.
Avoid excessive complexity and over-engineering — our system is complex, but we need it as simple as possible so that we can easily manage it and find engineers who can help.
Hire new engineers — Our in-house recruiter will supply you with candidates; your job will be to interview, evaluate, and hire the best ones.
Final line of support — you’ll be Tier 4 of support only for really gnarly bugs. When this comes up, you train the team and document the fix so we have a lasting solution for the next time it comes up.
Empower and scale the team — We have great devs. Your job is to get them what they need and get out of the way.
We’d Love to Hear From You If (Job Requirements) 👊🏻
- You’re an expert in PHP 🤓
- You’ve built apps on GCP & Kubernetes
- You’ve led & scaled tech teams before
- You’re willing and able to get your hands dirty with the code base at the beginning
- You’re familiar with our tech stack
- You know how to ship code fast without any major issues
- You’re terrified of downtime
- You’re able to work about half the day during the Central/Eastern European time zone
What You’ll Love About Us (Benefits and Perks) 😉
- Great company culture. You’re going to be part of a team, not a cog in a machine.
- We’re here to enable you. It’s your work and your career. Our management team is here to help you become who you want to be, not to micromanage you.
- We value your ideas. At Vidalytics, our doors are always open. Need help? Come on in. Have a vision for the future of the company? We’d love to hear it.
- Rest and relaxation. Employees enjoy a generous PTO package.
- Professional development. Want to continue your education? Vidalytics pays for classes, conferences, and more.
- You’re more than an employee, you’re a person. Every co-worker you’ll meet is committed to treating you with respect and kindness. You won’t hear stuff like, “It’s just business.”
Vidalytics’ Values
(Yes, We’re Actually Serious About These) 😇
How we do things…
Winning – we’re competitors. We want to win. We do what it takes to win. This means that we will fail, we will lose, but we want to do these things fast… so we can win. Because winning is on the other side of mistakes.
Scrappy – We’re a startup, it’s chaotic. This isn’t the government. You need to be able to learn fast, move fast and handle you need to be able to survive in a scrappy entrepreneur environment. If you want an easy job, go work at the government.
Data – As much as we’re able to, we use data to answer questions, give bonuses and promotions. Not based on politics and titles. But data or not, when a decision is made, it is time to get on board.
How we are more so as individuals and with each other…
Direct – A shitty company is a political company. A political company is one that doesn't communicate directly. Here you can call out anyone. Argue for your ideas. Even against the CEO. Otherwise, we will fail all the while pretending to be nice and not saying what we mean. Just be sure to attack issues and not people. ;)
Transparency – Secrets bred politics and resentments. Just being straight up improves team communication and the health of our culture.
Solid – We can trust you and you can trust us. You do what you say. And own what you’ve done. Mistakes happen. But the worst thing that can happen is when someone doesn’t own and learn from them.
Growth – You’re either growing or dying. This is a place for hyper learning. We’re scaling. You need to scale w/ us. This means being…
- Emotionally intelligent
- Conscious of yourself and others and reality
- Closing skill gaps
Cheers,
👩🏻
Erika Lehmann
Co-Founder / VP of Ops @ Vidalytics
