Lead Engineer (Venture CTO) – BCG Digital Ventures Permanent

We’re BCG Digital Ventures. Adventure awaits you.

We are an ever-growing global team of the world’s most remarkable entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, venture architects, product experts and investors. Our ventures create a strategic advantage for the most important global companies.

About The Role

As Lead Engineer at DV, you’ll get to play a unique, exciting role like no other. You’ll act as a CTO and lead the engineering team on one of our ventures. You are responsible for the technical direction and delivery of the products and businesses we build. This includes everything from pitching for initial funding, hiring and staffing your team through to team leadership and growth, technical design and architecture. You will work closely with our corporate partners and our other cohorts such as product and design to ensure that the team is focussed on doing the right thing, at the right time, and in the right way. We believe in and practice servant leadership here, so your goal is to unlock the potential of your team, not do it all yourself.

• Lead our venture engineering teams to address genuine, real-world business problems
• Build, grow and operate successful startups, working alongside venture leadership, corporate partners and other cohorts
• Design and deliver impactful solutions to complex problems, using code or otherwise
• Champion a foundation for iterative product development with good agile practices
• Understand and make considered tradeoffs around software qualities such, testability, security, scalability, operability etc
• Mentor and support effective teams, not hesitating to get into the weeds when needed, oftentimes writing and reviewing code with them
• Cross-pollinate learnings, best practice and insights between multiple ventures to drive continuous improvement of Engineering at DV
• Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent and inclusive environment where all ideas and opinions are equally valued

You should have:

• 8+ years fullstack software engineering experience with 3+ years of experience leading, developing, and scaling engineering teams
• Familiarity and preference working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments such as startups and/or consulting firms
• Hands-on and end-to-end product build, development and delivery experience with a mix of customer interfaces (e.g web, mobile), languages and technologies
• Experience hiring and managing remote, distributed teams including full-time engineers and vendors/contractors
• The ability to build scalable, high quality, distributed services
• Experience working with agile, lean and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code etc
• Experience building cloud native software architectures
• An ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning
• Strong communication skills put to use by explaining technical vision and deeply technical concepts to a variety of multidisciplinary team members
• An open, curious and humble mindset that builds on to our open, inclusive and collaborative environment
• Intrinsic passion for solving customer frictions through simple and effective software

To learn more, visit us at bcgdv.com

Interested applicants may apply through the careers section of the website at . Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

BCG Digital Ventures is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.