Rakuten Viber is one of the most popular and downloaded apps in the world. Working with us provides a unique opportunity to influence hundreds of millions of our users and to be part of the journey that makes us a super-app. Our mission is to make people鈥檚 lives easier by enabling meaningful connections, from precious moments with family and friends, through managing business relationships to pursuing their passions. We're looking for a talented R&D Director to lead the R&D department for Viber Business Messages and Bots.
As a R&D Director you鈥檒l lead teams building scalable, high鈥慽mpact features that enable businesses worldwide to connect with customers via Viber Business Messages API. You鈥檒l balance technical leadership, team growth, and strategic alignment with business and product goals to scale global product. This is a highly influential senior role that has a significant impact on the success and roadmap of the product and business. The right person should have experience in leading, hiring and coaching high performance teams of mobile client development, backend, and QA engineers.
You will be working closely with senior management, product management, business leads, and with our global teams (Tel-Aviv, Russia, UK and others). Ideal candidates will have experience from API or communications platform driven B2B or B2B2C company. Responsibilities: Manage and coach high-performing global teams of client, backend, web and QA engineers Experience building and leading platform engineering efforts in messaging, cloud services, or communications platforms.
Quickly deliver high quality, scalable, mobile application and backend infrastructureMeasure, analyze, and improve existing software to enhance performance and functionalityExceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly and conciselyPartner with leaders across the business to align R&D organizational goals with business goalsRequirements:
8+ years experience with B2B/B2C communications platforms or API driven business at scale with 5+ years as senior manager (VP, CDTO, R&D Director) managing global teams8+ years of experience with both client and backend development (Java, C++, NodeJS, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C)In depth understanding of technical skills (iOS, Android, cloud system architecture, NoSQL databases, microservices architecture and continuous deployment) agile methodologies Advantages:
Experience with big data technologies & pipelinesLinux and server-side experienceExperience with serverless technologiesKnowledge of VoIP/WebRTC technologiesUnderstanding of Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts and technologyIn-depth knowledge of cryptography and securityExperience with Couchbase NoSQL DBRussian language - Native/High level
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