VP Frontend Client Engineering

Optimum•Town of Oyster Bay, NY

42d•$178,500 - $255,000

About The Position

We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore – it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community. If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you! We are seeking a skilled and accomplished Vice President, Frontend Client Engineering that has shipped multiple highly rated applications to lead our growing software engineering team for web and mobile apps. Reporting to the SVP, Product Development, the VP is responsible for delivering state of the art experiences for our customers and employees that are low latency and highly available. The VP will recruit, lead, and mentor software engineers that develop multiple applications with server-driven user interfaces using iterative and empirical approaches. They will collaborate with product management, design, and stakeholders to systematically define and deliver human centric products that make Optimum a trusted service provider. The role is pivotal in ensuring our employees and customers are delivered experiences that meet their needs and wants, while driving returns on investments. The VP will level up our engineering strategy and operations by applying rigorous architecture, software design, automation, documentation, and quality assurance principles ultimately being measured by their end users’ satisfaction.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; or 15 years of software and/or hardware product development with increasing leadership experience. Master’s degree preferred
Minimum of 10 years directly related experience
Financial acumen to understand and articulate the company's profits and losses, contributing as a leader in ROI and budget analysis
Demonstrated data literacy in support of engineering delivery and operations decisions
Deep architecture design experience, consulting teammates on specific difficult areas of the design and setting up new projects for architectural success
Demonstrated understanding of technical debt as a long-term budgeting and risk management tool, articulating when to incur more and when to pay it down
Expertise with popular frontend and services programming languages across a range of device types, databases, devops automation, and workflow tools
Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and professional development in the field of product development
Exceptional customer communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Ability to make informed decisions under pressure and effectively manage engineering deliveries in support of an exceptional customer experience
Ability to articulate complex technical capabilities to technical and non-technical audiences in a manner that allows them to understand how they work and why they were selected
Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements and optimize operational efficiency
Project management skills and the ability to oversee multiple initiatives concurrently

Responsibilities

Leads, mentors, and scales the frontend engineering team as well as championing a strong devops culture
Delivers frontend applications that achieve 5-star ratings from their users
Employs the art and science of software engineering to be a leader in establishing product vision and strategy
Develops and implements comprehensive processes that increases delivery velocity without compromising quality across multiple teams
Guides the adoption of new data formats, data stores, and patterns for performance and data locality, consulting regularly across teams for input / feedback
Defines and models practices and culture that values and encourages cross-functional collaboration
Defines, aligns and understands cross-org implications of monitoring and response policies
Regularly interacts with end users (customers / employees) to understand their needs / wants
Connects multiple data hypothesis together to establish a larger narrative supported through data
Transforms ideas into elegant and simple architectures and software designs that are validated within budget and technology constraints
Anticipates the delta in effort between options with functional partners
Coaches others on best practices for architecture, software design, coding, and documentation
Ensures regulatory and corporate policy compliance, consistently employing privacy / security by design
Advocates for the importance of continuous, rapid testing and learning
Consistently helps teams overcome obstacles and complete work
Delivers and operates software that achieves successful outcomes consistently
Defines career paths to help the team identify opportunities for growth and achieve their goals
Partners regularly with senior leadership stakeholders