VP of Engineering

You could be our first ever VP of Engineering if you have good technical insight and very strong people skills, including the ability to and interest in managing managers, as you will responsible for 5 engineering managers leading 30+ engineers. The VP of Engineering will also be instrumental in delivering on the overall engineering strategy and an anchor when ensuring that Famly's engineering department maintains a positive culture and works aligned with Famly values.

As the VP of Engineering at Famly, you are responsible for the engineering crews in Famly, with DevOps being exempt. This includes:

• People management of the EM in the individual crews
• Fostering a positive and inclusive culture, still maintaining high velocity and alignment with Famly values, including accountability, technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Ensuring alignment on Ways of working, ensuring high velocity in each crew
• Owning the delivery process in Famly
• Ensure good alignment with Product on roadmap
• Supervise and support the hiring process in the crews
• Engineering manager hiring
• Ensuring correct allocation of resources in each crews, including work-type-split of Feature/Support/Maintenance
• Participate in P&E Senior leadership team to discuss strategic changes in P&E
• Ensuring we have the best possible onboarding and learning for new employees
• Drive Engineering talent development and career programs

The position is Copenhagen-based.

And Famly is...? Well it all began when our co-founder Henrik’s daughter was ready to start at daycare. He couldn’t believe the amount of work being done on paper - and how distant he felt from his first child during the day. The paper ‘parent’ books they exchanged once a month just weren’t cutting it. Together with his friend, our co-founder and CEO Anders, they set about solving that.

These days, the 175 of us building Famly talk about trying to do two things for our 6,500+ customers:

• Giving children the best possible start to life.

• Championing the vital work that goes into making that happen.

We do it with software that brings hundreds of thousands of parents closer to their child’s day while they’re away from them. We also make financial, pedagogical, and planning tools for more than 70,000 childcare professionals, saving them hours and reducing their admin stress.

Ultimately, that gives them more time and headspace for the little ones that really matter. Come help us make that happen.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing 5 engineering managers leading 30+ engineers

• Overseeing efficient SCRUM-based development processes, building great features, but also creating time for handling tech-debt, fixing bugs, and maintaining our platform.

• Participate in scoping out work and initial early estimation for features

• Ensure proper planning and estimation of development tasks

• Collaborate with departments outside of Engineering and be the anchor point to your crew

• Actively participate in the hiring of new engineering managers, both on-location and remote working

• In collaboration with EMs and our CTO, work on ensuring we have the best development processes

• Develop and motivate your team of engineering leaders

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience leading engineering managers 

• Have experience building and maintaining external and internal stakeholder relationships

• Are good at motivating others to do their best

• Have excellent technical knowledge and experience.

• Find pleasure in developing, structuring and executing highly efficient development processes

• Have good communication skills

• Strong leadership skills

• A proven record of developing high-performing engineering teams.

• Have deep knowledge of industry trends and best practices.

And it’d be even better if you: 

• Love to work with and develop highly skilled engineering managemerts

• Have 2-3 years of experience as an Engineering manager with people management responsibilities

• Have a proven track record of working with agile frameworks

• Are used to develop and maintain career framework in an engineering organisation

• Have a background as a Software Engineer

• Enjoy a technical challenge, and are not afraid to contribute with actual code

You'll be working with:

Skilled, pleasant, ambitious yet humble people. We pride ourselves on being a pretty fabulous group, who challenge each other, give feedback and recognise growth as well as achievements. When we disagree, we do it with respect and open communication.

In close collaboration with our CTO and the engineering managers, you will be part of an efficient management team that has the authority to develop the best possible processes to ensure that we keep on delivering a great product to our customers.

Our tech-stack consists of Scala, PHP, React, MySQL, Kubernetes and AWS and it will be an advantage, but not a requirement, if you have good technical insight. You will report to our CTO.

You’ll love working here because:

• We’re all about hiring a diverse array of clever people - who are good humans too. It means Famly is full of top thinkers and generous teammates waiting to help you shine.
• We have high psychological safety scores and peer reviews

• A big focus on people support with personal and career development, including monthly training sessions in a wide variety of topics.

• We like to give a lot of ownership both in terms of responsibility and freedom to try new things. We’ll get you up and running and collaborate along the way, of course.

• Top-notch work equipment, a variety of working spaces for focus time and collaboration, and the flexibility to work from home when you need.

• Office location on Købmagergade, conveniently located in the heart of Copenhagen.

• A yearly training and conference budget of 10,000 DKK.

• A yummy daily buffet and a well stocked drinks fridge (did someone say snack corner?)

• Our private rooftop courtyard (sunny all year round, we promise…!)

• Endless team fun with dinners out, office BBQs, Friday bars, big quarterly social events, game nights, and more!

A formal interview process looks like:

• An intro video chat with our People Partner

• Logical test

• An interview with our CTO

• An interview with two of our other EM’s

• An interview with our CEO

• Potentially an assignment with a written answer

We appreciate that everyone brings something unique, so even if you don’t tick every box above, we’d still love to read your application.

We're looking to fill the position as soon as possible, so get your application in today by sending us:

• Your CV

• A cover letter to tell us what you can bring to the role, and what speaks to you about Famly.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Famly is committed to creating a more diverse, equal, and inclusive workforce, building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. It is a fundamental policy at Famly not to discriminate on any basis or characteristics and celebrate diversity. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply.