Spaceship is an Australian fintech startup with two products in market, a pension fund and managed investment app (Voyager), that has over $1B Funds under Management. Spaceship is backed by some of the world's most prestigious investors including Sequoia Capital, Horizons Ventures, NEA and Valar Ventures.
As Director of Engineering I was responsible for:
• Oversight of key business deliverables and effective communication across all stakeholders.
• Implementing project and product management process initiatives across all teams in the business.
• People management, including hiring processes and building a team from 5 to 12.
• Establishing a DevOps team to transition Spaceship's infrastructure and CI/CD to Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
• Implementing Scrum processes and restructuring the engineering team into sub-teams.
