About us:
Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think
booking.com for student housing). Amber helps
80M+ students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are the largest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, with
1M+ units listed in
6 countries and across 100+ cities, and backed by $21 million in institutional funding led by Gaja Capital. We are growing rapidly and targeting
$1B in annual gross bookings value by 2025.If you are passionate about making international mobility and living, seamless and accessible, then - Join us in building the future of student housing!
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About the role:
We, at Amber, are looking to hire a Vice President of Engineering, who is a thought leader, and a world-class engineer who has a proven record of creating an impact on business and engineering with little or no help. You will own the technology vision and significantly contribute to building the engineering team and culture. You will partner with the product and business teams to understand product features and specifications, translate them into high-level and low-level designs, thereby facilitating the team in building mission critical applications.
Key responsibilities
- To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
- Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
- Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design concepts.
- Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
- Work closely with Product managers, designers, and the business team to implement solutions.
- Maintain a very high standard of product quality, ensuring a delightful experience for users.
- Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.
Technical Skills:
In this leadership role, you will oversee a diverse and comprehensive tech stack, spanning both front-end and back-end technologies.
On the front end, your team will leverage React+SSR to ensure optimal performance, while the back end will utilize Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Golang to manage robust, scalable cloud-based architectures.
Python will play a critical role in driving chatbot integration, enabling the development and maintenance of sophisticated conversational solutions.
From a DevOps and infrastructure perspective, you will guide the use of Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC), Jenkins for CI/CD processes and Postgres for reliable database management.
For mobile app development, your leadership will focus on React Native, delivering high-performance, cross-platform applications. Playwright will be employed for quality automation, ensuring end-to-end testing and stability across platforms.
This role offers the opportunity to lead a team through a wide array of cutting-edge technologies, fostering innovation and driving excellence in a dynamic development environment.
We Value
- Entrepreneurial spirit - Everywhere you go, you can’t help but mobilize people, build things, solve problems, roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond, raise the bar. You are self-starter, an insatiable doer and driver.
- Strong execution and organization - Your team will be working with engineers and product leads at the bleeding edge of the development cycle. To be successful in this role, you should be comfortable executing with little oversight and be able to adapt to problems quickly
- Strategic mindset - you’re comfortable thinking a few steps ahead of where the team is at now
- Obsession - with what you are building, and with an eye for detail
- High Ownership - taking complete responsibility for the growth via the respective channels
- Ability to Hustle - can multi-task, work in a fast-paced start-up environment, and get-things-done
What will you get from Amber
- Fast-paced growth (can skip intermediate levels)
- Total freedom and authority (everything under you, just get the job done)
- Great Compensation and ESOPs
- Amazing work culture.
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