BASED IN: TWICKENHAM - LONDON
NO SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED
Biomechanics and athletes are at the core of NURVV. Our team is united by a passion for sports, performance and bringing innovative products to market to help athletes be the best they can be.
NURVV was inspired by the idea of a new way of knowing our bodies. Closer, more intuitive, more accurate. The more insight we have, and the more accurate it is, the better we can be. Based on biomechanical principles and personalized guidance, NURVV is the next generation of wearable technology.
Our vision is to be the leading and most trusted sports performance technology brand. We aim to inspire athletes to constantly improve and strive to achieve their full potential.
· We believe that reaching your goal takes the right attitude: sheer dedication and a focus on the small changes to achieve the big goals.
· We believe that it also takes the best tools: with meticulous attention to creating the best technology so it provides superior understanding (contextually useful, real-time, highly accurate).
· And lastly, we believe that it takes the ability to always rise to the challenge and come back stronger.
We exist to enable you to be the best athlete you can be.
JOB PURPOSE
Working with technology leaders and inventors, we are operating at the forefront of tech and have created a number of product concepts in wearable sporting technology that will be revolutionary in their application. With a cutting-edge base technology, we are now taking our product development into a number of first of a kind sporting products.
This is your chance to join an exciting new company at its inception, benefiting from the entrepreneurial spirit of an innovation company, coupled with the financial support of a rapidly growing partner company.
You should be aware that we are a unique business, with a high tolerance for risk and a focus on speed to market.
JOB DESCRIPTION
At NURVV, we are a startup building a revolutionary product in the wearables space which will change the way people view sports technology. In this quest we are building an in-house software development team which will be working in the consumers electronics space to provide an end to end solution for our new wearable platform. Our architect lead will be responsible for all technology direction and delivery of live working solutions to our customers. As our products are designed for consumers, reliability and ease of use are key criteria for our initial launch and your task will be to drive these factors into the final product.
RESPONSIBILITIES
· Ability to architect modern and innovative solutions using cutting edge technology.
· Hands on architect who can contribute to the codebase
· Research and suggest updates to process and technology regularly to stay relevant.
· Leadership of the software team both technically and professionally as welTeam alignment around strategy and direction.
· Alignment with Management on Company Vision, and leadership in the execution of the tangible goals around the software platform.
· Lead and participate in the conceptual phases of identifying and solving business problems and initiatives.
· Optimization of the development process.
· Optimization of the measurement process (e.g. KPIs have been defined, and need to be measured, and also need to roll up into some company reporting mechanism).
· Constant mentorship and leadership of the Engineering Team. Provide an environment that supports communication, collaboration, and alignment to the bigger vision of the company.
· Implementation of Performance Tracking Process for development team.
· Implementation of Automation Processes for platform build and testing.
· Participation and Thought Leadership in Steering Committees.
· Optimization of the Product Build Lifecycle
SKILLS
· API definition
· Startup environment experience
· Critical Thinking
· Product Management Methodologies (SCRUM, Agile)
· Relevant Infrastructure Experience (e.g. GCE and AWS)
· Microservice Architecture Experience
· Authentication Standards and Best Practices
· Development Standards and Best Practices
· Continuous Integration and Deployment
· Client/Server Architecture Experience (Mobile, Web via Angular2, ReactJS, ReactNative, etc...)
· Application Development Experience (Several Product Builds under belt, from first line of code to growth phases)
LANGUAGES
· C++ , Java, Swift, etc...
EXPERIENCE
· Four year college degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
· Masters in Computer Science preferred.
· Sufficient years of experience in three of the following: Java / Android, Objective C or Swift, or C.
· Sufficient years of experience in Front-end technology stacks, API and Server technologies e.g. MS Web frameworks (including Angular, React JS etc.), XSL/XSLT, Node.js and Java
· Scripting Languages – Ruby, PowerShell, Linux/Unix Shell scripts, and/or Perl etc.
· Experience in two or more of the following databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Mongo, Cassandra.
· Experience in the Cloud computing implementation and integration.
· Implemented components’ communications in various protocols, and possibly IoT protocol stacks.
· Experience in TDD/BDD.
· Experience in implementing high performance, high availability, reliable, and secured software, and know how to scale a system.