Director of Engineering

Overview

We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering team at browserless.io. Core responsibilities are running day-to-day engineering operations, participating in meetings and planning, building the team / managing individual team members, and helping facilitate unblocking of the team. We’re all multi-sport athletes and value individuals who can contribute as well as lead.

Who we Are

Browserless.io is a self-funded web automation company founded in 2017. We’re building the next generation of web automation, supporting developers and other integrations by making the “hard parts” of web automation simpler. We’re non-VC backed, profitable, and a remote-first team.

About You

We’re looking for someone who still loves writing code and can help deliver great products and services at browserless.io, as well as facilitate check-ins across the remote team. You’d be a great fit if you’re self-motivated, can rally folks behind a cause, and can actively help deliver software towards that goal. We deeply value bias towards action and taking ownership of problems. Here’s a little bit about the role:

Responsibilities

• Own and be responsible for ensuring quality, deliverability and timeliness of the engineering team.
• Run check-ins, help the team stay focused, run retrospectives and other scrum events.
• Understand how the platform works, how releases work, and be proactive in improving all aspects of the system.
• Manage software releases, changelogs etc.
• Help out with individual contributions where possible (we expect 30-50% of the time spent on code - which would decrease over time as you learned things well enough to be able to effectively review PRs)
• Required Skills Excellent NodeJS and TypeScript skills.
• Has worked in browser automation at some level (testing, scraping, Selenium, etc).
• Familiarity with other popular languages like Python are helpful but not essential.
• Understanding of how containerized technologies like Docker work and can use them effectively.
• Have used cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud or Digital Ocean.
• Prior experience running engineering teams would be a bonus
• Manage performance, hiring, and building a high performing engineering culture
• Manage well in an async culture - we have core overlap hours of 8am-10am PST, four days a week (half team based in North America and half in Asia)