Founded by professors in 1999, Berkeley Electronic Press is both a
publisher of peer-reviewed electronic journals and a software
developer, having created Digital Commons, the world's leading hosted
institutional repository that powers the University of California's
eScholarship Repository, and those of over fifty other universities,
societies, and other organizations. The company produces tools to
improve scholarly communication via innovative and effective means of
content production and dissemination. Bepress has a portfolio of
products and services that reduce the costs of and barriers to access.

We are a successful, fast-growing Berkeley-based company with a
collaborative work environment where technical and non-technical
colleagues work together to create great software, serve our customers
and create the future of academic publishing and scholarly
communication. 

Bepress is currently seeking an experienced Vice President of
Engineering. As the VP of Engineering, you will report directly to
the President. This position involves responsibility and oversight
of all bepress technology from top to bottom, ranging from bepress
system architecture to managing feature development down to the office
phone system.

You'll be leading an extremely smart, knowledgeable, diverse, and
capable technical team, so the ability to jump in technically and
establish credibility is important. We're looking for someone with a
hands-on, results-oriented approach, and the positive attitude
required to move projects forward to timely and successful completion.

Day to day responsibilities will include:
* Oversee all software development, including:
** Evaluate feature requests 
** Evaluate feature scope
** Determine how work fits with long range technical and business plan
** Scheduling development
* Prioritization of technical tasks for other tech team members
* Manage technical crises
* Provide guidance and mentoring for junior members of the technical staff
* Collaborate with senior technical staff on technical issues
* Answer technical questions of all shapes and sizes
* Interact with previous and new clients

Long term responsibilities:
* Implement a (realistic!) long-term technical vision
* Oversee ongoing refactoring of an existing codebase 
* Oversee and tune existing software processes
** development
** operations
** QA/testing
** deployment

Requirements:
* Strong people skills
* Strong technical skills
* 5+ years experience leading teams of programmers
* 5+ years application development experience

Desirements:
* Experience with medium to high volume websites 
* Web application development experience
* SQL (particularly PostgreSQL)

Relevant technical skills:
* High availability web application development and operations
* LAMP-based production environments. In this case, that means:
** Linux
** Apache (currently 1.3, but we'll need to upgrade to 2.x someday)
** mod_perl
** PostgreSQL

Compensation:
DOE, with a generous benefits package and stock options

Why should I even think about this job?
* Competitive, market based salary
* Collaborative atmosphere 
* Really smart co-workers (no, really!)
* Medical and dental plans included
* Matching IRA plan
* Based in the East Bay, and bicycle friendly