Director of Engineering

Key responsibilities:

• You’ll provide direction, mitigate risk and offer solutions tailored to client’s business needs. From migrations of existing workloads to building advanced cloud-native solutions.
• Collaborate with product owners and other business partners to understand and refine requirements that drive innovative cloud native B2B SaaS solution architecture, technology, and tools.
• Help set up and lead a high performing team of developers and engineers for our platform. Provide technical leadership to our development team; propose and update team standards and policies.
• Contribute technically through feature development oversight, technical design oversight and process streamlining.
• Coordinate proof-of-concept as needed to determine technology solutions in alignment with the Director of Architecture.
• Identify open source and commercial solutions for integration; Define solution API’s guidelines and integration with third party systems.
• Provide thought leadership and own the long-term development vision for multi-cloud SaaS delivery platform.
• Oversee building of cloud-native applications based on scalable, portable, and resilient designs.

About you

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Good communication skills and used to interfacing constantly with peers.
• 4 years of management experience, leading global technical development teams (5 to 20 people).
• A passionate IT professional with a strong technical background who thrives on day-to-day details, coding, and troubleshooting. A person who, despite being in a managerial position, has a love for technology that keeps them deeply involved in technical aspects.
• Hands on experience (8 years) developing with some/all tools of our tech stack (React, TypeScript, node.js, Postgres, GitHub, C#, Terraform, Remix/React Router, Tailwind CSS, React-Aria-Components, Vite, Vitest, AWS and Azure clouds).
• A decisive individual who takes ownership of the decisions, assumes full responsibility, and steps up to face challenges head-on, never placing blame on the team but rather shouldering accountability.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases is desirable.
• Constantly seeking out better ways to do things, enjoying learning and adapting quickly to arrive at a solution using new technologies, frameworks and tools.
• Experience operating in an Agile Environment.

What we value:

• You are a dedicated leader, looking to develop teams and team members.
• You are a self-starter, able to see what needs to be done from inception to implementation.
• You can lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs and drive conflict resolution while thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills even during hard situations.
• You are a good partner in different areas (product owner, chiefs, customer services).