NAS EDUCATION PTE. LTD. Hiring For Head of Engineering at Central Singapore Full Time

Head of Engineering

NAS EDUCATION PTE. LTD.–Central Singapore

About 4 hours ago, from Mycareersfuture SG

Nas Academy is a remote-first, global team of highly motivated life-long learners and content creators coming from the Nas Daily brand.

We are on a mission to empower content creators through technology and transform education in the process. The great irony is that people don’t enjoy education, but they love learning. We believe that creators can fix online learning with better technology and world-class learning experiences. https://nasacademy.com/about-us

Why work with us:

• We are a remote-first company.
• We are a diverse bunch spread across the globe, ranging from India, Pakistan, South Africa to Singapore.
• There’s a high chance your current job is boring and that’s why you are looking for something new. We are not boring.
• You love learning and are excited about the prospect of completely remodelling the way we do education.
• We are completely merit based. You’re good at something or have potential and step up to the task – you do it. That also looks good on LinkedIn!
• We offer a substantial share package. If the company is doing well financially, so will you.
• You choose whatever working equipment you want.

If you believe in our mission and have both the technical and leadership experience in building and scaling a tech team, then come join us as a Head of Engineering! This is a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to work with experienced engineers/product managers/designers from top companies in the world including Grab, Alibaba, Tokopedia, Ernst & Young, Visa to build technology from the ground up and scale rapidly. Visit nas.academy for more details about Nas Academy.

This is challenging and beyond a full-time job. We are at an early stage. Many of us took a risk to leave jobs from big companies to join this mission of building an amazing product that changes people’s lives. (Trust us, Nas Academy has changed many people’s lives and we won’t stop)

Responsibilities

• Leading the entire Development + Engineering team in Nas Academy and ensuring excellent and prompt delivery of our product features
• Collaborating with Product Management and Design to plan, prioritise, architecture product features and oversee the entire development cycle.
• Lead our engineers to turn feature requirements into implementation within Sprint, with tight deadlines and iterate to improve
• As the Head of Engineering, you may not be involved directly in coding, but you are expected to be very hands-on with the product development in terms of designing/architecting/testing, as we are a very close-knit team.
• Develop and scale the tech team in terms of both experience and team size to take it from 10-100 in the next 2 years!
• Participate in product discussion daily on what product/feature should be built for our learning platform and how we build it the right way
• Responsible for customer-facing and internal platforms to support our students and creators and rapidly iterate to get user feedback
• Constantly think about how to improve user experience and make the system scalable

Who You Are:

• You have demonstrated leadership experience in this role, preferably in an early stage start-up. Preferably, you have experience leading a team of 50-100 engineers
• You have the gravitas and proven capabilities to be a strategic problem solver
• You have successfully contributed to the hiring and development of an engineering team
• You have a sharp sense of what the engineering team needs in short and long-term and are able to make strategic decisions to recruit, hire and manage top talents
• Deep knowledge in a backend and frontend development and designing scalable microservices demonstrated through your past projects
• You are experienced in cloud platforms and how to set up infrastructures to fit the business needs (performance/scalability/cost/etc) at different stages of the company.
• You are attentive to details and are not reluctant to ask your engineers to test, test, test a feature many times before shipping it.
• Ability to speak up and suggest how we can improve our products/features/coding practices.
• You understand when to defend your grounds or when to take opinions from others as a leader, especially when dealing with different stakeholders
• Ability to handle pressure with composure and work with the team to resolve technical and business challenges