We’re looking for an experienced engineering director to grow and lead our team of engineers working on our products. The team works closely with our other product teams, and we’re looking for an engineering leader who can excel at defining our strategy, translating that strategy into staffing and technical roadmaps, and then grow and manage the team to execute on those roadmaps. Your team will build across all our platforms, including web, iOS and Android. Your team of engineers will be working on every part of the stack: web, backend, API, database, analytics.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for hiring additional engineers to fill out the team, with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and staffing and structuring your team to meet business needs.
- Manage your team and help them to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, agile, high-growth environment.
- Make technology, infrastructure, architectural, and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale.
- Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within each team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, editorial, data science, and marketing teams to define strategy and execute on roadmaps.
- Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams while also delivering clean, performant code (this role has an expectation of staying close to the codebase).
- Hold regular 1:1s, evaluate performance, and provide consistent productive feedback.
- Help engineers learn the skills needed to advance in their career.
- Work with engineers and product managers to iterate on and improve team processes and efficiency.
- Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team.
- Experience leading a team building both web and iOS/Android products.
- Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team highly desired (but not required).
- Experience with some portion of our tech stack, and an appetite to learn the remainder: Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS.
We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. If you are a candidate for a technical role, we will let you know what specific tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- Experience leading a team building both web and iOS/Android products
- Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team
- Experience with some portion of tech stack
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