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This job post is closed and the position is probably filled. Please do not apply. 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\nDropsâ 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) . Weâre 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**Whatâd be different here:\n**\n* Weâre a small team. Weâre optimising for impact, not for headcount. Youâll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity.\n* Weâre 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* Weâre using React to develop UI, on both mobile and the web.\n* Weâre doing things in a functional way, concentrating state, minimising side effects and making dependencies explicit. Weâre sharing 98%+ of the code between Android, iOS and Web.\n* Weâre writing software with a web developerâs 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* Weâre not building a hierarchy. Weâre encouraging everyone to be autonomous. Youâll _not_ be an arbitrator between business and engineering. Youâll 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 * Youâll be responsible for the tech teamâs effectiveness, well-being and development, and that its working aligns well to the businessâ and our usersâ needs.\n* Youâll be making sure that the technical aspects of the projects are getting done on schedule, that weâre making the right trade-offs.\n* Youâll be leading, mentoring, managing the people who are part of the tech team.\n* Youâll be recruiting, onboarding top talent, sometimes. Weâre a small team, and weâre not expecting to grow the headcount a lot (but we do expect to grow the impact each of us have!).\n* Youâll be working closely together with the leadership team, to lay down the tracks for future product and infrastructural expansion.\n* Youâll 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, itâs 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, businessâ and the teamâs perspective.\n* You have excellent technical and people skills. (yes, we know, itâs rare!)\n* You are more of a frontend than a backend engineer. (weâre 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 youâre 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\n#Location\nEuropean timezones See more jobs at Drops # How do you apply?\n\n This job post is older than 30 days and the position is probably filled. 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