Director, Engineering

• Leadership for a cross-functional team of software leaders to design, develop, and maintain platform and service
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration within the organization.
• Develop and implement tactical and strategic plans for the engineering, aligning with overall company and team objectives.
• Collaborate closely with the product management team to understand needs, define product requirements, and translate them into technical specifications.
• Plan and optimize resource utilization across functional areas.
• Recruit, mentor, direct, and evaluate employees.
• Mentor and provide career development and professional growth for every team member.
• Establish and improve software development processes, code quality, and performance optimizations along with developer productivity.
• Track and provide clarity amid competing priorities and obscurity.
• Ensure timely and high-quality software deliverables, enhancements, and triaging issues in accordance with Agile development methodologies.
• Own, lead, and manage the roadmap of large-scale distributed systems that process and serve large volumes of requests and operate with very low latency.
• Build and manage multiple scrum teams comprised of software development leads, software engineers, quality engineers, and product managers to deliver high-quality software.
• Ensure architectures and solutions are reliable, secure, performant, and compliant with security regulations.
• Provide strong technical leadership, build autonomous teams & deliver on an ambitious roadmap.
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and lead efforts to build and maintain a highly scalable software platform.
• Exhibit excellent verbal and written communication and convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner with the team, peers, and upper management.
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure seamless cross-functional cooperation and alignment.
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional team.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, profiling, and optimization.
• Extensive experience with cloud technology.
• Proficiency in designing scalable, distributed, low latency, and high throughput systems.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions on time and within budget.
• Expertise in Agile development methodologies, software architecture, and design patterns.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a focus on collaboration and team building.
• Good logic and reasoning skills to be able to identify weaknesses and strengths of alternative solutions or approaches to problems.
• Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineering talent.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment and manage competing priorities.
• Commitment to building and mentoring inclusive teams and team culture.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capability, and a pragmatic approach to business needs.
• Experience navigating through the ambiguity of complex and dynamic customer needs while building a platform for availability and scale.
• A track record of highly influential technical and leadership achievements, strong and current technical contributions.
• Ability to excel within a VERY fast-paced startup environment with a flat organizational structure and provide hands-on leadership to our top-tier engineers.
• Experienced in managing managers, as well as highly skilled senior engineers/architects.