Vice President, Engineering

About Procare

Our mission is to simplify childcare operations and create meaningful connections by providing technology, expertise, and unparalleled service.

Procare Solutions is the #1 name in childcare software – used by more than 35,000 childcare businesses across the country. For over 30 years, childcare professionals have looked to Procare to provide real-time information for making critical decisions, maintaining compliance with local and state regulations, and adhering to business best practices.

We make childcare management run smoothly, so that our customers can spend more time focusing on the kiddos, not back office administrative duties.

A little about the role…

This role is responsible for delivering and operating Procare’s fastest-growing SaaS platform according to the strategic roadmap, and to mature and evolve the software engineering practices. This is a highly technical role that also requires someone with strong leadership skills and business understanding.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver products and services on Procare’s strategic roadmap, including web applications, APIs, and mobile apps
• Define and implement architectures, platforms, and technologies in collaboration with CTO and other technology leaders
• Oversee the day-to-day technical and architectural standards, providing guidance to engineers at all levels
• Collaborate with Product Management and other business stakeholders and defining product roadmap and product requirements
• Mature and evolve and implement software engineering practices, such as Agile/Kanban methodology, design standards, coding standards, peer reviews, testing, etc.
• Guide DevOps activities for production/operations in collaboration with IT Infrastructure teams
• Manage and optimize a hybrid team of onshore/local and remote/offshore resources, with a balance of productivity, flexibility, and cost
• Measure and report on the productivity and quality of teams and progress of initiatives on the roadmap
• Lead, mentor, and manage individual technical contributors and managers/leads

Requirements

Our Ideal Candidate will have…

• Experience managing development teams with multiple manager-level and individual contributor direct reports
• Experience managing delivery of commercial SaaS solutions with small to medium sized teams (15-30 people)
• Experience with developing and managing B2C and B2B systems at significant scale and volume
• Technical background, must have hands-on experience with the relevant technologies listed below
• Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and related technologies required – React, NoteJS, SideKiq, etc.
• Experience with AWS and building cloud-native products and services, including EC2, ASG, ALB, ElastiCache, Lambda/serverless, RDS/Aurora,
• Hands-on experience with various relational database platforms, PostgreSQL preferred
• Familiarity with container technology such as Kubernetes
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) in a DevOps working model
• Experience with monitoring/APM tools such as New Relic
• Experience with formal IT Service Management based on ITIL standards preferred
• Experience with structured/formal Agile development processes, Kanban preferred
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of products – Jira Software, Confluence, BitBucket, etc.
• Experience with test automation tools such as RSpec, Selenium, K6/JMeter, and Postman
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (Master’s degree preferred)
• Minimum 15 years’ experience as a software engineer/architect

Benefits

Why Procare?

• Excellent comprehensive benefits packages including: medical, dental, & vision plans- choose the plan best for you
• HSA option with employer contributions of $50/month
• Vacation time, holidays, sick days, volunteer & personal days
• 401K Plan with employer match and immediate vesting
• Medical, Dependent Care, and Transportation FSA Plans
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company paid Short and Long-Term disability and Life Insurance
• RTD EcoPass for all Denver employees
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $2,000/year and continued Professional Development
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 live support
• Casual workplace environment
• Some meals provided
• Voluntary Pet Insurance
• Prime downtown location close to restaurants and entertainment
• Promote from within- excellent career paths

Salary

$220k-250k DOE

Location

This position is based in our Denver office. We are currently in a flexible hybrid in-office/remote working model based on local COVID-19 health regulations and business needs. Candidates must be willing and able to work from our Denver office a few days a week.