About Billd

Billd is a fast-growing fintech company looking to disrupt the $1.4 trillion dollar construction industry. We offer industry-leading payment and financial products to empower our customers, the subcontractor. We are the first and only champion of the subcontractor, supporting entrepreneurs and the businesses that build our country.

We’re equally committed to the motivated professionals that make up the Billd family. We are proud to have been recognized as Austin's fastest-growing private company by Austin Business Journal, one of the best to work for by Built In the last two years, and consistently rated of the top companies by Glassdoor with a 4.3 rating.

You will be challenged to be your best self and guaranteed to have one of the most professionally rewarding experiences of your career. We encourage creativity, initiative, collaboration, playfulness, and a strong work-life balance.

The Role

In this role, you’ll oversee Billd’s focused and close-knit engineering and product development teams comprised of both internal and external offshore members working on our core platform. This platform supports our customer interface, lending operations, payment management, and customer integration.

This role will be responsible for ensuring that our platform continues to scale effectively and meets our customers’ needs. Success in this role means high execution on platform development, team building and team management, and creating products that support the company’s overall strategy and goals. Your scope includes Billd’s IT infrastructure, physical facilities, vendor management, and cloud infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Develop department goals, drive the technical and infrastructure roadmap for the engineering team
• Work with product management to identify and prioritize strategic product roadmap initiatives and timelines
• Lead software architecture direction in defining and implementing a platform architecture that is robust, efficient, and highly scalable
• Supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives while meeting long-term company goals
• Work closely with product and operations teams and company leaders to ensure the technology platform is evolving to meet business needs and keep pace with technology trends
• Ensure alignment with key business stakeholders. Effectively manage resources and remove obstacles to accomplish business goals
• Manage day-to-day operations of local and multiple offshore development teams
• Ensure that the entire team delivers software on time and on budget while maintaining a level of innovation required by Billd’s customers
• Mentor and develop technology team members for career development and retention

Skills and Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in management, engineering, and technology strategy leadership role
• 10 yrs leading engineering and technology teams, preferably in a high-growth technology company
• Experience in SMB lending, payment processing, financial services, and core banking services is preferred
• Familiarity with SSAE 16, SOC 2 or other certification process a plus
• 5 years leading and executing agile software development practices
• Experience collaborating with executives and product managers on defining and executing the product roadmap
• Experience managing offshore technology development teams
• Experience managing cloud operations for reliability, scalability, and security in AWS
• Experience recruiting, hiring, and onboarding engineering talent
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving initiatives from inception to completion
• Programming experience and understanding of modern technology, including Angular, .Net, Apex, Salesforce, AWS, and JIRA
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others, and get stuff done
• Ability to hold others accountable
• Strong project planning, time management, and collaboration skills
• Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, white-boarding, and presentation

Billd is committed to diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.