Director of Engineering
About The Position
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our engineering teams, ensuring they remain productive and happy. The role involves shipping high-quality code, building strong teams, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation. You will be responsible for inspiring, retaining, and developing technical talent, keeping our people engaged, energized, and having fun. This role requires a strong technical pedigree with prior experience building and/or leading cutting-edge products, with a significant emphasis on Non-Functional Requirements. Ideally, you have relatively recent experience as an engineer and can differentiate good code from bad code. You should have broad technical exposure and the ability to delve deep into specific projects as needed. Experience working at a product company and collaborating across teams, especially in a distributed organization across different time zones, is essential. This is a metrics-driven management position.
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience in engineering management or other relevant experience.
- Solid understanding of scaling technology companies, consumer internet products and platforms.
- Know how to hold a team accountable for predictable and speedy delivery of high-quality software.
- Enjoy catalyzing team members potential and helping them develop professionally.
- Ability to manage change and people (relationships, perceptions, attitudes).
- Performance management experience.
- Strong Technical Pedigree - should have prior experience building and/or leading cutting edge products.
- Strong emphasis towards Non Functional Requirements.
- Relatively recent experience as an engineer. Ideally, still remember how to write code. In a perfect world can differentiate good code from bad code.
- Have had broad technical exposure and ability to dig deep on specific projects as needed.
- Experience working at a product company.
- Working collaboratively across teams, ideally in a distributed organization in different time zones.
- Metrics driven management.
Nice To Haves
- You welcome change and can manage change and people (relationships, perceptions, attitudes).
Responsibilities
- Keep engineering teams productive and engineers happy.
- Ensure we ship high-quality code.
- Responsible for building teams.
- Actively building a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
- Inspire, retain, and develop technical talent.
- Keep our people engaged, energized, and having fun.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
