Yottaa Looking for Head of Engineering

Based in Boston and Beijing, yottaa is a stealth mode startup in the area of cloud computing. We are not saying too much about what we do in public yet, but we can say that you will enjoy the deep computer science as well as the plenty “lost in translation” moments in our cross culture geek environment.

We are looking for a head of engineering that can build and lead a team of 10-50 engineers.  The team is made up of different disciplines (Web development, Networking, Yottaa-scale Distributed Computing, System and Application Design, Ruby, Java, C/C++, Open Source).

The ability to go from zero engineers to 10 with an extremely high talent concentration is critical.  If you have a big brain, that’s great and we’d love to know that.  More importantly, we are looking for someone who attracts even bigger brains.

Though you don’t have to be an expert in all technical areas, you need to have an understanding as well as an appreciation of the technology.  We are not looking for a translator that can use Microsoft Project.

We are looking for a leader that can build and maintain a development culture that is highly productive as well as enjoyable to be a part of.  The head of engineering needs to be able to help create a culture of people working for intrinsic goals rather than extrinsic ones.

We want someone that can implement an agile development process in an organization.

Communication within the team as well as throughout the rest of the cross culture organization is a key component of the job.

The ability to speak Chinese is important as is the understanding of US and Chinese cultures and how to work productively in both.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which includes salary, equity, paid vacation, medical/dental plan, and 401K. –Oh, did we mention that lots and lots of free airline mileage are included too?

We prefer you are either located in Boston or Silicon Valley, CA. Yottaa has offices in both locations.

Contact coach at yottaa.com if you are interested. No agencies please.