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Remote, permanent, full-time (40h/week) position\n\nIf you have a soft spot for bootstrapped, profitable companies with a meaningful product, and you would like to develop a small, super-capable technical team in a refreshing work environment, you might quite like this extremely rare executive position at Drops.\n\n\n\nAbout us:\n\nDropsโ goal is to turn language learning into a delightful game while ensuring effective learning. Drops is one of the top10 most innovative education companies according to FastCompany. Our app is in the Appstore for 3+ years, teaches 32 languages, was featured by both the App Store and Play Store multiple times - App of the Year in 2018 on the Play Store - and the company is still run by the founders. We are a small, super-capable remote team mainly spread across Europe (we have a small marketing crew in California) . Weโre working synchronously, so time zones matter for us. We communicate via Slack, Github and Monday. We want to be the no.1 app for vocabulary learning and we are getting there quickly with our current user base of 15 million, a monthly active of >1,500,000 and an average store rating of 4.7.\n\nYou can find us here: http://drops.app.link/\n\n\n**Whatโd be different here:\n**\n* Weโre a small team. Weโre optimising for impact, not for headcount. Youโll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity.\n* Weโre using a single programming language - TypeScript. We have strict linter rules. Every pull request needs to be approved before it lands in master. We use the rebase workflow.\n* Weโre using React to develop UI, on both mobile and the web.\n* Weโre doing things in a functional way, concentrating state, minimising side effects and making dependencies explicit. Weโre sharing 98%+ of the code between Android, iOS and Web.\n* Weโre writing software with a web developerโs mindset.\n* We automate where it has positive ROI.\n* Our biggest challenge is (and will remain): managing the complexity of sharing a lot of code between different apps.\n* Weโre not building a hierarchy. Weโre encouraging everyone to be autonomous. Youโll _not_ be an arbitrator between business and engineering. Youโll be helping both project owners and the tech team to work more closely together.\n* Your average day will be about helping with team members make technical decision, adjusting processes as needed, doing research and automation, actually developing software and also, recruiting.\n\n# Responsibilities\n
* Youโll be responsible for the tech teamโs effectiveness, well-being and development, and that its working aligns well to the businessโ and our usersโ needs.\n* Youโll be making sure that the technical aspects of the projects are getting done on schedule, that weโre making the right trade-offs.\n* Youโll be leading, mentoring, managing the people who are part of the tech team.\n* Youโll be recruiting, onboarding top talent, sometimes. Weโre a small team, and weโre not expecting to grow the headcount a lot (but we do expect to grow the impact each of us have!).\n* Youโll be working closely together with the leadership team, to lay down the tracks for future product and infrastructural expansion.\n* Youโll be in charge of flourishing our engineering culture - organise information sharing, hackathons, processes, developing new, helpful routines.\n* We value clear and honest communication and transparency, itโs the linchpin of our culture and current success and independency.\n* You will be involved in both high and low level decision making and will be available during European working hours (9AM - 6PM GMT).\n* We are looking for a missionary rather than a mercenary. \n\n# Requirements\n* Can see a problem from the product, businessโ and the teamโs perspective.\n* You have excellent technical and people skills. (yes, we know, itโs rare!)\n* You are more of a frontend than a backend engineer. (weโre frontend heavy)\n* You held senior software engineering management position such as CTO, Head of Development, or VP of Engineering positions in the past and enjoyed it.\n* You have introspective tendencies, and youโre looking for a position where you can grow fast.\n* You can represent the technology, infrastructure, and the engineering team at the executive level. \n\nPlease mention the words **BIND RABBIT ELECTRIC** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xMzkuODYuNTY=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Executive, React, Education, Mobile and Marketing jobs that are similar:\n\n
$75,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nEuropean timezones
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