Director - Engineering (10-15 yrs)

Director - Engineering

Responsibilities:

- Help build and lead great software teams to deliver world-class products.

- Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products and features.

- Taking end-to-end ownership of multiple mission-critical projects to deliver them on time and with good quality.

- Participating in quarterly roadmap planning, architecture reviews, major design reviews, and hands-on with very critical and high-impact production issues.

- Being responsible for scaling, performance, and quality for the teams.

- Proposing and managing resources for specific products and projects.

- Determining the need for training and talent development.

- Set up annual goals for the team and participate in performance reviews.

- Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above.

- Experiment with new and relevant technologies and tools.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of progressive technology experience in software development and management roles.

- Experience in building scalable systems and creating complex software architectures.

- Ability To understand and articulate architectural, design, and implementation issues to multiple stakeholders effectively.

- Demonstrated ability to solve complex software and people problems with creative ideas.

- Ability to provide strategic long-term vision and tactical short-to-medium-term roadmap for the engineering team.

- Technical Breadth - Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, and technologies.

- Extensive and expert-level programming experience in Java and Spring Framework and relational databases.

- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, system design, and software architecture.

- Worked in startup-like environments or high-growth product companies with high levels of ownership and commitment.

- Ability to switch between technologies and learn new skills on the go.

- Experience in hiring and mentoring engineering teams of at least 15-20 members.

- 5+ years of strong individual contributor experience as a software engineer/senior software engineer/tech lead/principal engineer.

- Must have very good recommendations from peers and managers in past companies.