Director, Software Engineering

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to develop and ship new and existing products to the delight of our customers
• Work cross-functionally with all departments (product, sales, marketing, customer success, HR, recruiting, finance, etc.) to help lead the product-to-customer journey
• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop teams of managers, software engineers, and quality engineers to grow your team members’ career paths.
• Recruit, hire, and retain software engineering staff by participating in recruiting and interview efforts
• Work with other engineering leaders to continuously invest in and improve the engineering department processes, practices, and culture. 
• Advocate for software product quality and delivery by promoting automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps, and lean software development practices. 
• Cultivate an engineering culture of innovative, egoless, high-trust problem-solving. 
• Any other tasks that may be assigned to help the company meet its goals

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of total software engineering management experience (manager, senior manager, and/or director levels) 
• 3+ years of Director-level experience managing a team of engineering managers. 
• 3+ years of experience in a B2B SaaS Engineering department (preferably FinTech) at a Sr IC and/or Manager level 
• 5+ years of experience as an individual contributor as a software engineer
• 10+ years working on teams using Agile methodologies and an iterative process (Scrum, Kanban, XP) to deliver software
• Strong sense of product-mindedness when it comes to engineering with experience working on new and existing products from idea to customer value delivery
• Experience working on B2B SaaS products (preferably FinTech)
• Experience leading and growing an Engineering department the size of 50+ personnel
• Experience managing and coaching engineers’ and managers’ performance through review processes and providing guidance and feedback to help team members grow professionally
• Experience managing managers of software engineering teams
• Experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring personnel in software engineering and management roles on your teams
• Experience leading and managing teams that are geographically distributed and working remotely.
• Positive and enthusiastic team player with strong interpersonal skills and collaborative orientation

Nice to Haves:

• Hands-on experience in some or all of our stack, which is MongoDB, Express, React, and Node (MERN)
• Experience with AWS technologies and cloud infrastructures
• You care about things like product delivery, software quality, TDD, DevOps & CI/CD, Agile, Lean Software Engineering, Continuous Improvement, fostering a learning culture, among others