Lead Mobile Engineer

**IMPORTANT**: *** *** *** **3. To be considered for this position, resumes must be sent in English** Interviewing for a new company is a serious time commitment for all parties involved. Please take the time to read this and thoughtfully consider if we would be a good fit for one another. No contractors or agencies. Seriously. About Very Very has been a remote-first company since 2011 which has allowed us to develop an amazing remote working experience and to have a remote office culture that exceeds that of any traditional on-site office. We’ve built a collaborative, tight-knit team that thrives, whether we’re hanging out in person at our annual retreat or coordinating work across time zones. The results show that we’re doing something right. In 2020, we were named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces, Parity.org's Best Companies for Women to Advance List, and Fatherly’s Best Places to Work for Dads. At Very we are focused on delivering world-class IoT hardware, software, and smart product engineering services to our clients. We have a wide array of clients from enterprise-level clients such as Vizio, Clear and iHeart Radio to small greenfield start-ups. Whatever size company our goal remains the same - Deliver world-class IoT services and solutions and truly partner with our clients to ensure overall product success. About this Role Very is looking to hire an experienced full stack engineer to work across a wide variety of projects and technology stacks. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high quality, scalable and well tested code. At Very, teaching and learning is at the core of what we do. Whether through pair programming, workshops, conferences or other cross project collaboration we expect every engineer to continue advancing and developing their skills. **Responsibilities**: - Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment - Provide technical guidance to other team members - Influence work of multiple teams relating to overall engineering group objectives - Drive continuous process and technology improvements - Lead production monitoring and resolution impacts - Own and operate large sections of software and systems - Partner with Product to spec out the technical aspects of a feature from inception through delivery - Guide software design and delivery through influence and education - Write acceptance, integration and unit tests - Coach and mentor other engineers - Conduct architecture discussions when necessary - Support sales and pre-sales engineering work to ensure Very Client fit At Very we do not have just one technology stack as we work on interesting problems, not specific technologies. However, we do have some preferred stacks and proficiency in two of them is required: **Backend Web / Embedded Technologies** Elixir: Phoenix / Nerves Python: Django / Flask / Serverless / Scientific Python Ruby: Rails JavaScript: NodeJS Backends Kotlin/Java: Web Backends C/C++: Zephyr RTOS / BareMetal **Frontend Web / Mobile Technologies** TypeScript: React / React Native Swift/Objective C: iOS Native Kotlin/Java: Android Native We value well-tested, reusable code and expect our engineers to be as good of practitioners as they are leaders and teachers. What You’ll Be Working On We take customer success extremely seriously here at Very. As a senior engineer, you will be partnering with our clients to bring their products to market. You will be utilizing one or more of the above mentioned technology stacks coupled with a cloud provider to deliver an end-to-end solution for our customers. Each project is slightly different and can contain any combination of hardware, firmware, web / mobile frontend as well as an API backend/cloud architecture. We follow best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, well thought out and designed CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and other testing best practices, and always keep an eye on scalability. We remain as agile as possible working on delivering a vertical slice of all involved layers as early as possible so we can iterate and demonstrate progress. Your role on a project will be focused on your area of expertise coupled with your learning goals. **Qualifications**: Required Unfortunately, applicants who do not meet these criteria will not be considered. - Lead-level Software Engineering experience: Can guide a team to successful outcomes by architecting overall solutions, ensuring that work across the team meets a high standard, and helping the team focus on efficient solutions to business problems. Their quality of work and overall approach to problem-solving means that review of their work is mostly for the sake of discussion/clarity, rather than to ensure quality. - Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience - Strong experience with iOS App and SDK development experience with Swift - Solid understanding of