Muck Rack (
https://muckrack.com) | New York, NY
Muck Rack is a fast-growing SaaS platform for PR teams to effectively find the right journalists for their stories, send customized pitches, collaborate as a team, quantify their impact, and more. We index millions of articles from news outlets around the world. Fortune 500 brands, agencies and startups rely on Muck Rack to manage relationships with the media and boost coverage. We plan to develop several new services this year, and to do that we need to expand our tech team, starting with hiring a VP Engineering.
We’re looking for a VP Engineering with experience scaling an engineering team from 10 to 20 members, someone with good ideas on how to best organize the team as it scales, and who has experience managing remote teams (some of our staff work remotely, and we offer remote to all employees). This will also mean defining and enforcing process and policy as well as deciding the services and technologies we use for development.
We expect you to be capable of hands-on work but we would target an 80/20 split between management and coding. As a manager, you’ll be expected to help your team not only at a technical level and through code reviews, but to advance their careers and streamline their working environment.
Along with engineering you will oversee the infrastructure team and must be comfortable with cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS or GCP, and have had experience efficiently scaling, storing and processing large amounts of data.
This will be a job where you’ll wear many different hats—so we’re only looking for candidates that are comfortable being flexible! You should be able to talk to security, infrastructure, app development and management equally. At the same time we would expect you to weigh in on product decisions and have a business sense that can guide your engineering decisions.
Finally, we want to fill this role because we’re planning for the future. We are a profitable, bootstrapped company that is founder owned, with no VC’s to appease. You will not be coming in to put out fires, but to help us build an amazing company.
Tech
Our tech stack includes Python, Django, MySQL, Celery, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, Gunicorn, Varnish, and Ansible. We don’t expect you to have perfect coverage across these, but do expect that you’ll be able to speak to each core technology.
More info and how to apply:
https://muckrack.com/job/36/vp-of-engineering