About Us:
The DIY Content Creation domain provides high-quality and relevant design templates for print and digital formats to small businesses and consumers worldwide. We provide internal tools to empower creative professionals to create and manage a library of nearly 2 million templates. Additionally, we blend the talents of graphic designers with the capabilities of AI/ML to enrich and expand our content assets, to ensure we can provide our customers with whatever they need to complete their business cards, Instagram posts, or anything else they are designing.
Vista, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.
What You Will Do:
● Build processes that drive technical accountability within the team, identifying process bottlenecks, and clearing any potential roadblocks for the engineers.
● Introduce improvements to the team’s SDLC processes, ensuring the team writes quality code that follows the -ilities (reliability, scalability, testability, monitor-ability, etc.)
● Regularly tracking, sharing, and improving metrics to improve the team’s efficiency and quality of work in order to produce performant teams.
● Contributes to the team’s success by providing feedback on pull requests and reviewing the overall architecture of features that are being delivered.
● Independently plan and carry out changes to team staffing and technical assignments in service of company goals: identifying gaps, defining roles, and managing team size.
● Partner with Architects to ensure the team builds flexible systems and processes, working towards simple, straightforward solutions and reducing complexity when possible.
● Partner effectively with Product Managers to manage scope and define deliverables for the roadmap based on estimates that get refined over time, responsible for all resource assignments and communicating timeline, scope, and technical concerns to partners.
● Identify areas of technical debt, and do the cost/benefit analysis for resolving this debt, and work with Product to get the work added to the roadmap.
Your Qualifications:
At Vista, we are striving to hire individuals who add new ideas and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you feel that you don’t meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.
● 10+ years of experience engineering full-stack systems (React & Node js).
● 4 + years of managing a team of over 10 engineers across distributed locations.
● Ability to engage in technical discussions, ask the right questions, and engage at a helpful level sniff out suboptimal decisions, and advocate for and teach good ones.
● Exceptional coaching and mentorship skills.
● Proven track record of being proactive, moving with purpose and responding to problems efficiently.
● Experience identifying risk and a strong ability to assess and address risk when needed.
● Strong project management skills with an ability to create and manage roadmaps and track and improve team velocity.
Nice to Have:
● Curiosity: You are driven to understand our business, product, and technology, and to apply that knowledge to create better outcomes.
● Incisiveness: You think clearly and analytically. You fairly and holistically evaluate tradeoffs, and have the intellectual reasoning to get the right answer most of the time.
● Exceptional Recruitment Skills: You are able to paint a compelling vision for engineering, understand candidates' motivations and get them excited about making an impact at Vista.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
There is a lot to love about working at Vista. We are an award winning Remote-First company. We’re an inclusive community. We’re growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make us a culturally strong and high-performing team. About Us: Vista is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For over 20 years we’ve been inspired by small businesses, and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint, all under the parent brand Vista, represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success. Vista is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:
Vista exists to help our customers live their dreams. Each dream is unique – and the Vista team needs to be as well. We believe in the unique contributions of everyone within a diverse global organization. We are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. We strive to be role models and live an inclusive culture of fairness, respect and belonging for all. And we work together to empower each other, creating a space in which each of us can spark our next great idea.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Vista, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, In many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.