I’m in the midst of assembling the founding team for a new startup, and seeking a head of Engineering. I’ve attached details below. I welcome suggestions!
Seeking Head of Engineering for Navon Partners, Internet Finance Startup, NY
We are seeking a Head of Engineering for the founding team of an internet finance startup, based in New York and soon Asia. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor, shape a new company’s technology and culture from scratch, and create a significant company.
Our first product is DealOrigination.com, an automated research and analysis engine focused on private companies, leveraging our experience in sourcing new investments for private equity investors. Our technology is somewhat parallel to that developed by such firms as Alacra, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Connotate, FirstRain, InfoNgen, SkyGrid, and ThomsonReuters; we particularly value experience from these and similar companies. We are also comparable to traditional investment banks. The startup is led by David Teten, a serial entrepreneur.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
+ For each segment of our software platform, make buy/build/tweak decision.
+ Manage full product lifecycle including infrastructure, development, design, scalability and security.
+ Recruit and manage additional team members.
+ Research strengths and weaknesses of different data vendors we are considering.
+ Build hooks into APIs of major online networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
+ Design and implement logic and scoring algorithms.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
+ Over 2 years management and 5 years development experience.
+ Proven success in large scale, high transaction systems engineering.
+ Use of formal and agile development methodologies
+ Built complex, integrated, sanitized, normalized databases based on many messy data sources (linear, non-linear).
+ Passion about our startup’s vision.
+ Highly motivated self-starter who has a track record of continuous self-improvement, high achievement, and aggressiveness.
+ Strong analytical and math skills. High attention to detail.
+ Have managed development teams over time, with hiring and firing responsibilities.
+ Familiar with machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), screen-scraping technologies, semantic web, and/or agent-based systems.
We also value:
+ Experience in social networks, online dating, and/or finance industry, particularly investment banking and private equity.
+ Built consumer-oriented web applications.
+ Belief in the Edward Tufte school of communication.
+ Strong writing experience. Value a high GPA in writing-dependent courses.
+ Strong verbal communication/sales skills. Experience in debate, public speaking, and acting is pertinent.
+ Familiarity with startup environment and networks with local business/ government related organizations
+ Fluency in languages other than English.
COMPENSATION
+ Primarily equity initially. We are currently self-funded and expect to raise outside capital in late 2010/early 2011. You can start on a part-time basis while staying in your current role.
HOW TO APPLY
Please include with your detailed resume:
+ Link to your LinkedIn profile (or other online identity).
+ Availability.
+ Writing sample
Please send resume and cover letter to Careers(@)Teten.com with "Head of Engineering" in the subject line. We prefer that you save your resume in Microsoft Word format with the name "Last Name-First Name-Year.doc", e.g., "Hayward-Tony-2010.doc".
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