Director of Engineering

Please note: This role is with one of our portfolio companies (Series A funded)

Role description:

We are looking for a competent Director of engineering who will be our first technology go-to expert and play an integral role in setting the company's strategic direction and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Head engineering will lead, build, and operate exciting products with a passionate team.
• We are looking for someone who has developed and deployed software with a strong focus on end-user experience. We seek someone with experience and a proven track record of shipping web-scalable products.
• The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and delivering cloud solutions that deliver delightful consumer experiences and are easy to implement and reliable.
• Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
• Experience with micro services-oriented architectures and experience with scaling Big Data infrastructure.
• Experience delivering platform technology and creating an ecosystem of applications and services across multiple verticals and solution offerings
• Experience successfully scaling technology infrastructure to support rapid customer /data growth.
• Experience with fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, design-forward, product-focused companies.
• Roll-up-your-sleeves entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees

Candidate Experience: Desired skills

•BS/MS/PhD degree in engineering

•10+ years of hands-on experience in software development in a leadership role

•He/she should have prior work on large-scale complex web products.

•Strong track record of being able to develop and set release plans, track deadlines, deliverables, resource allocations, issues/risks, and create mitigation strategies as needed to deliver a quality product on time

•Strong technical and architecture skills in wide areas of platform engineering with a proven ability to dive deep into any area as needed.

•Extensive experience with eCommerce platforms, cloud systems, payment solutions, digital marketing technology, automation, and multi-device development is required.

•Competent in driving a culture of continuous learning to improve technology and remove roadblocks that hold the team back