VP Engineering

Do you want to lead a team of tech wizards and make sure they have the guidance, processes and support they need to bring our vision to life? Do you have a passion for technology and for implementation of AI in service offering and in our own usage as well as people? - then you are the unicorn we are looking for

About the role:

We are searching for VP of Engineering that will be responsible for our engineering organization. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the engineering team, you will also be responsible for fostering a strong engineering culture within the company, which includes promoting innovation, collaboration, performance management and continuous learning. You will collaborate very closely with our Product organization.

You will also:

• Have an active part in hiring new stars
• Advocate for effective development practices and help build a great engineering culture within the team and across engineering as a whole
• Maximize the usage of AI in our development and QA process to optimize time from idea to deployment in production
• Keeping up to date with programming languages, frameworks and platforms
• Help the team with prioritization when it comes to tech debt and similar
• Creating, developing and maintaining components, applications and packages for our systems that will facilitate usage, stability and scalability throughout all of DigitalTolks products
• Helping the team set future architecture, technology stack and working process
• Facilitating discussions and debates, both technical and non-technical with your colleagues and peers

Skills and Qualifications:

We see that the role requires both deep technical expertise (bonus points if you have experience in building an Iron Man suit) on development, DevOps as well as people and process (development methodology) and a understanding of coding practices. You are used to working with SaaS products using microservices at scale in a cloud first environment. Having working experience in an agile way with cross-functional team. You have worked with languages such as ReactNative, Vuejs, Laravel and Serverless. Microservices on AWS. You have worked with different business systems to make sure they will play well together while being able to leverage their individual strengths.

Other qualifications:

• Swedish (preferred but not mandatory) and English language proficiency
• A proven track record of successfully leading teams and delivering new products, preferably in complex and high transaction environments
• Expertise in managing, developing, sustaining, modifying, improving, testing, training, fielding and retiring systems and system computer resources
• 2-3 years experience working as a manager, leading and developing teams in complex and high transaction environments.
• Having worked with OKRs in a product development environment
• Security architecture (OWASP, encryption, etc.)

About DigitalTolk

DigitalTolk turned the interpretation industry upside down in many ways. Simply because we offer Interpretation-as-a-Service to our interpreters, users and customers. Interpreters in any language, only a click away. We are the only company that has fully automated the matching process for the best and fastest matching. As a result, we have grown from 5,000 interpretations in 2017 to over 350,000 in 2022. We're proud to be able to make a difference in our customers' everyday lives through the services we offer.   

We are a dynamic company where innovation is at the core of what we do. We offer you to be part in our continued journey.

The tech team is distributed between Sweden, Germany and multiple countries in Asia. The role is located at HQ in Stockholm but may require a certain element of travel as a part of the role in DACH and Asia

We're proud to be working on the mission of being part of creating a a world where every voice is heard. Our mission is to empower people to understand and make themselves understood – one refugee, one patient, one human at a time.

As a company, we have already received numerous awards and prizes for the way we approach a societal challenge. Named the Gazelle of the Year and Sweden's Fastest Growing Company 2021, one of Sweden's five most innovative Startups, award as one of "Sweden's best companies" and winner of the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency's innovation competition "Best in the industry"