THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

• Leader in precision engineered products
• Executive leadership team with proven success in the industry
• High growth strategy and currently experiencing a digital transformation in their product space
• Organization is specialized in multiple market verticals

 WHAT THEY OFFER YOU

• Significant opportunity to impact the organization during a time of growth and transition
• Exposure to a dynamic executive team and private equity firm
• Outstanding benefits and culture
• Ability to influence the organization to drive results 

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT

• Create technology standards and architecture principles focused on high availability, low latency, fault tolerance, low cost of development, fast time to market and low cost of operations solutions/services.
• Drive operational design focused on optimizing customer results in the production environment
• Formulate and drive best practices around production design – patterns and anti-patterns for the intersection of software services and infrastructure for both cloud (IaaS) and hosted (data center) operations.
• Build the strategic systems/solutions technology roadmap aligned to each of the business units.
• Lead the research and evaluation of new technology and new designs.
• Determine how MW can take advantage of changing usage and trends in the industry.
• Lead Agile meetings and manage engineering team
• Facilitate design reviews of products and services to ensure they are performing acceptably, comparatively low cost, easy to maintain and well monitored.
• Lead efforts to conduct risk management assessment early to predict and prevent runtime defects while also handling issue management for defects that were not predicted.
• Leverage your technical experience to mentor and coach team members.
• Participate in and lead cross-company technology initiatives.

THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS

•  MS degree in Computer Science or closely related discipline or a BS degree with significant relevant experience.
• 10+ years experience of services, product development, or infrastructure experience. 
• 5-10 years of design experience with medium to large-scale mixed operating system production environments, preferably as part of an online service provider environment.
• Significant experience with database, network, systems and software engineering 
• Excellent verbal and written communicator. You'll be leading a team of 3 Software Engineers and partnering with stakeholders within the business. 
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals required to build highly available and scalable services.
• Understands and can articulate the benefits and associated trade-offs between asynchronous and synchronous processing, various methods for sharding and segmenting services, and how to foresee, plan for, and prevent scaling bottlenecks.
• Solid financial acumen – understand the cost tradeoffs of various technology decisions.
• Solid understanding of load balancing, Linux/UNIX-related network services, TCP/IP networking, CDNs.
• Experience with virtualization technologies.
• Experience with big data systems (e.g. Hadoop) a plus.
• Experience with cloud hosting.
• Experience with No SQL like Cassandra a plus.
• Experience using iterative development fundamentals, including experience with SCRUM, Agile or other iterative approaches.
• Multiple development language background.
• Experience building and supporting high volume SaaS products.