Head of Engineering

The product is a vulnerability management platform that scans networks and ranks fixes by real-world risk. Incident response is a big part of the work: ransomware recovery, business email compromise and forensic investigations. We write internal post-mortems after every major engagement, including what went wrong.

Overview:

We're looking for a Head of Engineering to join our team in Bologna. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging.

Day to day:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Required qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Preferred:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

What you get:

Salary: €75,000 to €98,000 per year

• Flexible start and finish times

Candidates must be eligible to work in Italy.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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