About the Role
As the Head of Engineering for Wherobots, you will be instrumental in the success of the organization. As the Head of Engineering you will report to the Co-Founder and CEO. This player-coach will be responsible for growing, leading, and developing a strong team of engineers. As a hands-on leader, you will have a startup mindset and be comfortable rolling up your sleeves and working along side the team as needed.
Requirements
Position Overview
As the Head of Engineering for Wherobots, you will be instrumental in the success of the organization. As the Head of Engineering you will report to the Co-Founder and CEO. This player-coach will be responsible for growing, leading, and developing a strong team of engineers. As a hands-on leader, you will have a startup mindset and be comfortable rolling up your sleeves and working along side the team as needed. Responsibilities
Serve as the technical leader for a small, technically strong team.
Use modern tools and techniques to contribute to full lifecycle software architecture, roadmap, development, and testing.
Lead mentoring and training of the engineering team while instilling a strong, collaborative culture and structure.
Recruit and retain world-class engineering talent.
Establish a culture of collaboration and effective communication in building a top-notch team dynamic.
Share information and ideas to improve project execution and outcomes; be comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback.
Implement an engineering approach to prepare the organization for significant scale.
Qualifications
BA or BS, preferably in computer science, engineering or science / technology-based disciplines.
Demonstrated experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineering teams.
Strong and recent hands-on engineering experience with an emphasis on cloud and data.
Track record of building structure and process in engineering environments.
Expertise in building a SaaS platform for a cloud product.
Experience with cloud deployment, integrating data pipelines, and data flow systems.
Experience and success within a startup environment or a deep interest in being a part of a fast-growing startup.
About the Company
Wherobots is a geospatial data analytics and AI startup founded by Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu. Their fast growing technology is being used by a variety of industries for the processing of geospatial data in the cloud. It provides a turnkey way to perform ETL, spatial join, spatial queries, and geometric operations on geospatial data and is cloud-agnostic and seamlessly adapts to data stack as well as your infrastructure.
Wherobots recently raised a sizable seed round through Clear Ventures (Vijay Reddy) and Wing VC (Peter Wagner), an early investor in Snowflake.
Mo Sarwat is the original creator of Apache Sedona, an open source scalable system for processing big geospatial data downloaded more than 10 million times. Both founders have been building their expertise in this geospatial analytics space for years, in both a business and educational setting.