What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Engineering, Core Product position at Affinity.co?
Qualifications
13 years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations
8 years in an engineering leadership role, overseeing teams of 10 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads
Experience developing, coaching and managing engineers and Engineering Managers
Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while being willing to challenge them
Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates
Passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally leveraging practices such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow
Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy
Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platform’s overall performance and reliability
You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams
Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives
Have taken over an existing organization, leading through engineering managers or team leads, in the past
Experience working with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL
Experience working with CRM-type applications that deal with problems like entity resolution and designing data models to store lots of attributes across many entities
Experience building data-intensive applications
Responsibilities
As Director of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the charge in scaling our engineering team, which is at the core of our innovative CRM product and relationship intelligence platform
Your strategic vision will guide iterative project delivery, harmonizing product leadership collaboration with technological excellence
You'll be instrumental in directing our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications
Partner with product and design leaders to shape and implement a clear vision for our product's future
Lead engineering execution and delivery, ensuring the creation of quality software and a delightful user experience for our global users through continuous, iterative development practices
Grow, evolve, and scale your organization by shaping the team's composition, specifying hiring needs, and sourcing and onboarding engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams
Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members
Design key processes for your organization and the broader engineering team, strategically engaging in project details to boost overall team performance
Craft a technical strategy and roadmap that is deeply aligned with Affinity’s business and product needs, from building an industry-leading relationship graph to delivering blazing-fast performance across our suite of applications and APIs
Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions that are aligned with business context as well as product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies
Benefits
Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days
We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program – after all, one of our core values is that we’re #obsessedwithlearning!
We support our employee’s overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships / equipment
Virtual team building and socials
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $170,600 to $288,000 USD
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