Job Description

Aura is seeking a strong Vice President of Engineering to join their management team, with a mission of creating a safer internet for consumers.  This position is 100% remote.   

OUR CLIENT  

Founded in 2014 by Hari Ravichandran, Aura helps customers monitor, manage and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world.  With adaptive technology, a seasoned team and a first-of-its-kind product suite, Aura enables customers to manage disparate cybersecurity needs with ease.  Backed by premier investors, WndrCo, General Catalyst and Warburg Pincus, Aura's category-defining business is a holistic personal digital security platform that unites best-in-class privacy, identity and security products.

Trusted by more than 2 million customers, Aura has a team of more than 450 people worldwide and revenue over $200 million.  Most importantly, this trajectory continues to show momentum and is supported by strong organic growth in addition to strategic customer acquisition.  Aura’s leadership team has seen similar success before, having grown a start-up to a valuation of over $3 billion prior to exit.  With a clear vision, strong alignment, and strategic M&A execution, Aura has assembled a stellar team and built a unique culture with incredible employees. 


ROLE

Aura is experiencing rapid growth, and the Vice President of Engineering will have the opportunity to shape the future of the company as it innovates and re-defines the personal digital security market.


The VP, Engineering will be managing and building the team responsible for the on-going development of the core technologies, business processes and Cloud operations to continue to evolve and expand its world-class platform to protect against identity theft and fraud protection of finances, personal information and personal devices.


In addition, The VP, Engineering will lead the design and development of the long-term technical architecture and build-versus-buy strategy.  This includes leading the internal development teams as well as managing outsourced technology providers.  The scope of work is broad and includes all aspects of software development, quality assurance and Cloud operations of the production software.


The technical areas of responsibility include:  services and back-end operations, web-based interfaces, an API platform, back-end/transaction processing, payment system integrations and miscellaneous third-party integrations. 


CANDIDATE

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Engineering Debasish Biswas, Aura is seeking a seasoned engineering leader with experience building online consumer service businesses in both startups and mid-to-large companies.


The ideal candidate must have a startup “go for it” mentality, but be able to operate in a disciplined, scaled business environment.  This person requires a technical leader who is driven, energetic and focused on team building, customer experience, product quality and delivery. 


Experience and qualifications include:

  • BSCS/EE or MSCS/EE with 10+ years’ experience.

  • Proven track record with 7+ years’ experience managing the development of large-scale, internet-based, customer-facing applications in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

  • Strong leader with a track record of building and managing teams and motivating technical personnel.

  • History of mentoring / coaching employees, with genuine interest in employee well-being.

  • Experience working with off-shore and geographically-distributed on-shore development and operations teams.

  • Experience with full cycle Cloud Application development from concept to product launch on any of the public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).

  • Familiarity with the capabilities and limitations of customer-facing web-based, desktop and mobile applications using today's leading standards and technologies including:  React/React Native, application usage data collection, etc.

  • Demonstrated success defining and launching web-based consumer-oriented products, preferably using SaaS delivery methods.

  • Possess a strong sense of distributed systems architecture.

  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.

  • Prior budget management responsibility is a must.

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills are an absolute requirement


Key Pluses include:

  • Experience in the design and implementation of complex workflow products.

  • Prior Fintech experience.

 

Characteristics include:

  • Technologist:  Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into Aura’s product and engineering solutions.

  • Effective Communication:  Excellent listener; proven collaborator with superiors, peers and staff.

  • Partnership Attitude:  Has the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable the team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions.

  • Curious:  Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working.

  • Passionate:  Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization.

  • Bold:  History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change.

  • Achiever:  Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals.

  • Leadership:  the ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solutions.

In keeping with Aura’s beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or veteran status.  Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Aura is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome.  Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Aura.