VP of Engineering/CTO - San Francisco, CA

This is a full time, on-site, salaried VP of Engineering position located in San Francisco, CA paying $150,000 to $175,000 depending on experience + start-up equity package and benefits. No telecommuting allowed. US Citizens or Green Card holders only please. Local candidates *strongly* preferred, but applicants with perfect-match qualifications interested in relocating considered too. Thank you.

** Candidates MUST be coming out of a similar type of start-up. The area is called ‘media curation’ or in other words: online picture sharing. Our client is a Ruby shop so it’s a huge plus to have a Rails background, but at this level it’s not as important as having a similar background.

Our client is one of the fastest growing social media websites in the Web today with over 700M monthly page views and 20M global unique visitors. Their recently-released iOS app went to #1 in the Social Networking category in 19 countries. They do all of this with an extremely small team of entrepreneurs and engineers. This is a rare opportunity to make an immediate impact at an early-stage startup that has already achieved product / market fit. The company is based in San Francisco and backed by world-class investors with deep pockets.

Our client is looking for an experienced VP of Engineering to take ownership of all of the technical aspects of the company, including development of both their site and mobile apps and all supporting infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have had a similar role at one or more startups, leading them through periods of high growth, and will be used to managing high-traffic sites. The company’s team is both local and offshore, and the ideal candidate will have experience leading a distributed team using agile processes. Experience recruiting engineers

Although development is not expected to be a large part of the VP Engineering's responsibilities, the ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with full-stack web development. The ideal candidate will also have had responsibility for network operation / infrastructure and should be capable of managing systems administrators / DevOps engineers. iOS and/or Android development would be a major plus, as would Big Data experience.

If you are interested in this job, please submit your resume and salary requirements to opensourcestaffing|AT|gmail.com

Thank you, Beau J. Gould