This role is with one of our portfolio companies.(Series A funded)
As the Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for defining and executing the engineering roadmap, ensuring scalable and efficient technology solutions, and fostering a high-performance culture. You will collaborate closely with the executive leadership team, product managers, and other key stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- The Director of Engineering will be leading, building, and operating 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. and someone with proven 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 with delightful consumer experiences combined with ease of implementation/reliability.
- Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
- Experience with micro services-oriented architectures, 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
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years leading a small team of 15-20 members.
- 8-12 years of experience in building large-scale web applications; 6+ years of experience as an individual contributor
- Past experience in AdTech/MarTech, social media, or eCommerce domain is preferred.
- Experience scaling engineering teams in a high-growth startup, ideally from Series A to later stages.
- Strong technical background in modern software development, cloud infrastructure, and system architecture.
- Proven track record of delivering scalable and reliable technology solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with a data-driven decision-making approach.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Note: We will check the fitment for multiple roles across our portfolios.
