Director of Engineering

The opportunity:

- Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new challenges on a daily basis

- Be part of the technology leadership team and be directly responsible for driving the company's success

What you will be responsible for -

- Making decisions on the evolution of technical architecture

- Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code

- Help your engineers grow their skills and experience

- Author project plans for epics

- Run agile project management processes

- Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features

- Actively seek and hire distributed talent

- Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to do technical interviews

- Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team

- Generate and implement process improvements

- Hold regular 1:1's with all members of their team

- Give regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance

- Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary

- Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs

- Improve product quality, security, and performance

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

- 7+ years of full-time software engineering experience

- Proven experience leading and growing a team of 5+

- Experience in hiring strategies and team retention

- You've run internal programs for growth and learning

- Experience building scalable platforms (you've owned & built features from start to finish before)

- Thorough knowledge of SDLC

- Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS

- Working knowledge of frontend and mobile apps

- Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases

- Understands CI/CD pipelines

- Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure

- Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges

About You

- Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when something is off.

- You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.

- Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable moving across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy figuring stuff out.

- High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're opinionated, but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all possible outcomes.

What's in it for me

- Be directly responsible for driving company's success

- Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new challenges on a daily basis

- Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities on both IC and management track

- Work-life balance and fun team events