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About the company

Arbuz Tech - vertically integrated online grocery player operating from 30,000 SF fulfillment centers. Our mission is to make Whole Foods level quality affordable to more families in mid-size cities. Big focus on produce and "farmer's market delivered" concept. The company was started in Kazakhstan in 2018 and in 4 years grew to 2000 daily orders and 600+ employees. In 2021 we decided to expand internationally and picked Denver as our next location. We've built a team of 50+ in Denver (ex-Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Amazon, Boxed, etc.), built a grocery fulfillment center and launched in April 2022. The big vision is to launch in 30+ mid-size in the US in the next 4-5 years.

Founder

& CEO is Alexey Lee, #50 in the Forbes list of most influential businessmen in KZ in 2020. Before that, he started and sold 2 companies which became market leaders: 1) Ticketon.kz (#1 movie/event/concert tickets site in Kazakhstan); 2) Aviata.kz (#1 in airplane/railway tickets in KZ).

What we are looking for

• Experience of leading and scaling technology teams (10-100 people)
• Experience leading company's technological development and maintaining excellence in fast-growing, ever-dynamic startup environment.
• Extensive experience with incrementally improving monolithical legacy systems.
• Experience in applying incremental design and maintaining evolutionary architecture.
• Extensive experience with driving key architectural decisions in fast-growing systems by applying software design patterns & practices (DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Hexagonal Architecture, Microservices & etc.)
• Experience in organizing cross-functional teams across Frontend, Backend, DevOps, Mobile, Data Engineering departments.
• Experience leading Agile/Scrum teams.-Experience with setting up healthy engineering team environments with progressive Hiring, Onboarding, Performance Review, Promotion Review processes.
• Ensuring 99.99% availability through System Monitoring, Incident Management, On-calls, superior DevOps practices, etc.
• Extensive experience building Cloud-Native Applications.
• Experience in creating high-quality products and services.
• Ability to lead by example and be able to troubleshoot the complex problems by designing and implementing solutions in code.
• Ability to implement foundation-building modules in codebase while setting the exemplary style and patterns for the rest of the team.
• Ability to closely engage with stakeholders, Product Managers and other team members to collaboratively drive the product development.
• Ability to drive impact at scale in a highly complex system.
• Ability to set technical strategy and ensure high-quality execution to uncover root causes of complex problems and provide guidance on solving them.
• Ability to collaborate with and influence across boundaries and with external partners.
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external clients.
  

What you will do

• Engage with key business stakeholders to set the strategic direction of the product offerings.
  
• You will report directly to the Chairman / CEO
• Lead, inspire, train and scale an Engineering team.
• Build technical strategy to advance the state of Pinemelon/Arbuz engineering.
• Retain and hire key talent to achieve the team's mission.
• Ensure high-availability of the system
• Closely engage with key business stakeholders, internal and external clients.
• Drive the company through technological evolution from MVP-driven startup to true tech company by ensuring technical excellency on all stages.
• Manage talent and periodically review development & succession plans.
• Be responsible for Engineering team climate and happiness by providing mentorship, guidance and growth opportunities.
• Be joining a great and diverse team of experienced and respected professionals from two parts of the globe: KZ & US.
  

In this role you'll be eligible for

• Expected take monthly salary is $6,000-$8,000. Can be higher depending on the candidate's experience and fit.
  
• Stock options and benefits package including health care, retirement, paid company holidays.
• Relocation to Almaty office is preferred, but we are open to considering remote candidates on case-by-case basis.
• We are offering help with relocation as well.