Vice President of Engineering Careers at Alpha Group AI - Lead Technical Innovation

Job description

Job Title: VP of Engineering at AlphaGroup.ai

Location: Remote and Miami

This is a fully remote position, full-time, with flexible working hours and workarrangements

About AlphaGroup

AlphaGroup is part of the “Intelligent Accounting” era, we integrate artificialintelligence into clients existing ERP solutions in order to automate accountingand provide advisory, business insight, and eventually business foresight.

We’re an early-stage start-up, founded by Yale and Harvard graduates withseveral successful start-ups behind them. We’re US-based, but our team isglobal, from Australia to California. We’re bringing AI to Finance and Accountingbecause the industry is ripe for automation and big-data insight and the market ishuge: $200B just in the US. Our main office locations is in Miami. We have a well-established remote-workculture, and over 50% of our team are working fully remote

We are revolutionizing how financial back-office automation and B2B spendworks.... a mind-meltingly large market. We are a talented, hard-driving team ledby experienced entrepreneurs. If you're an experienced operator who approachesyour work with enthusiasm, come build with us, you'll fit right in.

About you

You’ve been an engineer for 5+ years, but you’ve been a tinkerer and a builderyour whole life. We’re a team of builders—when we aren’t building Alpha Ai, we’retinkering with a personal project, contributing to open source, modding a drone,building a computer from components, etc.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who enjoys working with cloudtechnologies. You possess a good mixture of DevOps and infrastructuremanagement and would like to build security innovative environments to supportour global application deployment. You should have plenty of experience inbuilding a performant, well-monitored cloud environment, designing efficient dataflows between systems, communicating clearly, sharing knowledge andquestioning existing solutions. You’re ready for the next step in your career, readyto take on fast-moving challenges. You’re enthusiastic about AI and how the builda devops infrastructure around a high performance dynamic AI environment...

As a team player, you are not afraid of reaching out to your colleagues to discussdevelopment challenges, especially when you are stuck trying to solve a specificissue

You are fluent in English.

Required Tech Skills

• Several years of experience working with AWS - ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3.

• IaC - Hashicorp Terraform.

• Docker deployment.

• CI - CircleCI or Github Actions.

• Linux - Alpine, Ubuntu.

• Bash scripting.

• Nice to have Tech Skills.

• AWS - auto-scaling, Aurora, SQS, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, Textract,Transfer Family, Kinesis, Cost Explorer.

• Familiarity with AWS services for data engineering/warehousing (e.g.Redshift).

• DataDog - metrics/alerting/dashboards.

• Auth0 (or similar e.g. Okta).

• Hashicorp Packer.

• Ansible

• Metabase

• Apache Druid

• What the position is responsible for - a day in the life of the position

• As a member of our operations team you'd be responsible for maintainingVic.ai's cloud infrastructure by using many of the above technologies, alsooften working closely together with our product development teams.Example tasks:

• Upgrade database X from RDS Postgres to Aurora Postgres.

• Migrate service Y from legacy container orchestration system to ECS

• automate (previously manual) task Z with Lambda function + EventBridge schedule.

• Configure auto-scaling of ECS containers based on Vic API avg responsetime

• Other characteristics of the ideal candidate - education, communication,work remote, etc.

• Great communication skills, both verbally and in text

• Multiple years of experience working in remote-first teams

• Masters degree in Computer Science a plus

• Open-source contributions a plus

As an early employee, you'll be working with a small team of committed andtalented engineers and having a large, long-term impact on technical design andengineering culture.

We Offer

• An exciting work environment operating at the forefront of AI technologydevelopment.

• Competitive salary

• Generous maternity and paternity leave.

• Virtual team building events & awesome swag

• People-focused culture, adding-value and fun to our meetings

• Generous vacation time, family and travel-friendly environment

• Work alongside an enthusiastic, collegial, and driven team in a highlymeritocratic environment

• The opportunity to work remotely, including workstation setup

• A team-focused culture. The team builds the product, the business buildsthe team

Above all, you should enjoy the journey. Our engineers are creative, technical,smart and genuinely like each other. They enjoy the work they do and so shouldyou! As an employee first culture, AlphaGroup.ai also offers in person retreats toemployees. We love connecting in person as a remote-first company. We make ita benefit to our employees to come together and be able to celebrate ouraccomplishments, work together in person, and enjoy team building activities! Weare planning to hold company retreats multiple times a year to keep ourAlphaGroup community strong.

Don’t forget to follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date on our AI technology andnew career opportunities to join our teams.

Acceptance and inclusion for everyone is at the heart of our company. We strivefor diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects theentire alphagroup.ai community. We are proud to be an Equal OpportunityEmployer.

Industry

Computer Software

Employment Type

Full-time