Position
Head of Engineering Division
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Company Overview
Gecogeco provides cloud software development services to clients and is an affiliated company of the LightCafe Group, which has over 800 employees primarily based in Japan. We started our operations in Cebu, Philippines in 2018. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have expanded our recruitment outside Cebu. We now have more than 30 employes across the Philippines.
We are a certified AWS consulting partner with almost all of our software engineers AWS certified and provides specialized services in this domain.
Background of Recruitment
Since 2018, we’ve grown our team significantly, thanks to great feedback from our clients. So far, we’ve focused on hiring for technical roles, which means our engineering division is currently led by managers with strong tech management skills, though their experience outside of IT projects is more limited.
As we look to expand further, we’re on the hunt for a leader with solid experience in organizational management and a background in software development. This person will oversee the entire engineering division while also having a good grasp of general software engineering concepts.
Work Arrangements
- Full-time employment
- Hybrid Set Up, up to 1-2 office days per week, CBP Cebu
- Monday to Friday
- Semi-flexible Sched (core work hours: 10 AM – 4 PM)
- Fixed weekends off
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Entitled to twice-a-year profit-sharing upon regularization
- Transportation allowance for hybrid employees
- Observes Philippine Holidays + Special Company Holidays
- Sponsored club activities, team lunches, dinners, and happy hours
- Yearly summer outing, year-end party, and Gecolympics (team building activity)
- Perks for birthday celebrators of the month
- Referral bonuses
- HMO benefit provided upon regularization under Maxicare with 200K MBL + 1 dependent
- Leave credits upon regularization
- Equipped employees with their own laptop for working
- E-books & E-learning support are also provided（e.g.Kindle books, Udemy)
- Cash incentive bonus if you pass selected certifications as a Geco member (ie. AWS Certs, Java, Linux, Mysql, JLPT etc). Geco wants to foster each member’s personal and career growth thus certifications are highly encouraged.”
Job Description
- Strategy and Leadership
- Responsible for all Engineering division activities.
- Set division objectives, monitor progress, and ensure alignment between engineering activities and the company’s strategic goals.
- Develop appropriate organizational structure, resource plans, and culture.
- Define and implement technical strategies and roadmaps, ensuring alignment with the company’s objectives.
- People Management
- Foster a culture of excellence, mentorship, and collaboration through strong leadership.
- Design career paths and job descriptions.
- Manage recruitment to evaluation process with HR section.
- Formulate and decide policies related to organization operations and member wellbeing.
- Engineering
- Manage engineering resources to strategically assign projects, balancing growth and needs.
- Lead the planning, design, and implementation of internal training programs.
- Establishing metrics and monitoring systems to track performance, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Minimum Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a section or division manager with more than 10 members
- At least 10 years of experience in Web software engineering industry
- Degree holder in a relevant field, such as computer science or management
- Professional experience in either AWS, GCP or Azure
- Professional experience in any modern web application framework
Extra Awesome
- Japanese language skill
- Business level Japanese communication skill.
- N1/N2 JLPT certifications.
- Software architect skill
- Experience with large-scale system architecture design.
- Business management skill
- Experience in a top management role within the same industry, such as CXO position.
- Strategy, financial, operation, recruitment..etc
Salary range
- From ₱190,000 to ∞