Our Team
You’ll lead a team that is blending the creative talents of graphic designers with the latest technologies to build a vast catalogue of design assets and templates that make great design attainable to all of Vista’s customers, whether they are designing their business cards, Instagram posts, or anything else. This full-stack team uses modern technologies, including React, Node, and AWS, along with advanced proprietary technologies within Vista to create tools to build flexible design tools that can work across our product catalog. You will be positioned to make a significant impact by working to rapidly evolve a core capability of Vista.
What You Will Do
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Cultivate a healthy engineering team by defining a team structure, setting clear expectations by defining roles and responsibilities, cascading strategic context, and cultivating a safe environment to be bold and innovative.
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Drive efficient and effective execution and software delivery by managing delivery timelines, monitoring progress, addressing dependencies and roadblocks, and positively impacting KPIs.
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Increase Vista’s talent density by attracting, growing, and retaining excellent engineers. You will invest in your team members by creating development plans, proactively sharing feedback, and ensuring team members are receiving mentoring.
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Strive for engineering excellence by leading your team to deliver reliable, performant, secure, robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions that use modern technologies and meet our customers’ needs, without unnecessary complexity.
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Collaborate well with team members, product management and user experience partners, and peers across the engineering team to ensure we are accomplishing ambitious goals across the organization.
Your Qualifications
At VistaPrint, we are striving to hire individuals that add new ideas and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you feel that you don’t meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.
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8+ years of experience in engineering full-stack systems (React and Node js)
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2+ years of managing a team of engineers across distributed locations.
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Ability to engage in technical discussions, guiding teams to make smart tradeoff decisions.
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Exceptional coaching and mentorship skills
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Consistent track record of being proactive, moving with purpose, and responding to problems efficiently.
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Experience identifying risk and a strong ability to assess and address risk when needed
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Strong project management skills with an ability to create and manage roadmaps, and improve team velocity
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Excellent communication skills, both synchronous and asynchronous.
What you bring:
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Curiosity: You are driven to understand our business, product, and technology, and to apply that knowledge to create better outcomes
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Incisiveness: You think clearly and analytically. You fairly and holistically evaluate tradeoffs and have the intellectual reasoning to get the right answer most of the time.
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Support: You are invested in the growth and development of your team members.
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Strategic thinking: You are not satisfied with how things work today, but work diligently to envision, communicate, and realize new possibilities with our technologies.
Nice to Have
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Experience with graphic design concepts and tools, including Adobe InDesign or Illustrator.
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Experience with software products using React and Node
Why You'll Love Working Here
There is a lot to love about working at VistaPrint. We are an award winning Remote-First company. We’re an inclusive community. We’re growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make us a culturally strong and high-performing team.
About Us
VistaPrint is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For over 20 years we’ve been inspired by small businesses, and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. Together, VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success. VistaPrint is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
VistaPrint exists to help our customers live their dreams. Each dream is unique – and the VistaPrint team needs to be as well. We believe in the unique contributions of everyone within a diverse global organization. We are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. We strive to role model and live an inclusive culture of fairness, respect and belonging for all. And we work together to empower each other, creating a space in which each of us can spark our next great idea.
Equal Opportunity Employer
VistaPrint, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.
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