Recast is looking for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial director of engineering to help us accelerate our engineering and product development practice.
What you'll do in your first 6 months:
- Get to know our team of nine highly experienced software engineers – start one-on-ones and build development plans for each of them
- Develop and (start to) implement a medium-term engineering roadmap that accelerates product velocity while reinforcing our core infrastructure
- Help us rapidly grow our software engineering team while still keeping the quality bar high and maintaining a culture of product and engineering excellence in the team
- Own our tech security practice and SOC 2 certification and compliance program
Things that should excite you that might scare off other folks:
- Working across a range of technologies – from Rails to AWS & k8s infrastructure, to running #rlang in production
- Working with a fully-remote and globally distributed engineering team across a variety of timezones
- Working with a large number of direct reports – we’re a flat organization and we plan to keep it that way
Familiarity with the following would be nice to have, but aren’t required:
- AWS and/or cloud-first architectures
- Kubernetes and distributed compute generally
- Building products with data science / machine learning / algorithmic components
What we offer you:
- Work wherever you’re happiest. We're fully remote
- Competitive remote salary along with early-stage equity
- Highly skilled coworkers you can learn from and who are eager to learn from you
- An async-first culture with a focus on documentation over standing meetings
- Autonomy and support to do your best work in your own time
- Your local holidays plus unmetered PTO (minimum 2 weeks mandatory PTO!)
As our director of engineering you’ll be leading our full engineering organization made up of three subteams: app developers, R developers, and infrastructure / platform engineering. The Recast product and delivery model is very complex and so shipping features often require fairly intense inter-team collaboration to provision compute, develop algorithms, and then present something human-usable to our end customers.
Note: Recast is committed to building a diverse team so if you are from an under-represented background in tech (e.g., women, BIPOC, etc.) please apply even if you don’t necessarily check all of the boxes here.
While Recast is officially based in the US, we're a fully remote team (one founder lives in Brooklyn, the other in Mexico City and team members in 6+ countries around the world).
If this sounds interesting to you, we'd love to learn more about you! If you have examples of contributions to publicly available and widely used R packages, we highly value that so please make sure to include it in your application!
Top Skills
What We Do
Recast is building the world’s most rigorous MMM platform. Here's how we're different:
1. We take accuracy (really) seriously.
From configuration, to stability checks, to parameter recovery exercises, to ongoing backtests – the Recast process holds every model to an incredibly high performance standard before and after delivery.
2. We don’t hide anything.
At Recast, we turn the black box into a glass box. We show uncertainty for all point estimates, send weekly model accuracy scorecards and publish all model docs openly. It helps our clients build trust in their models and hold us accountable as their vendor.
3. We’re obsessed with model quality.
More than 30% of the Recast team holds a PhD in math or statistics. Our research into upper & lower funnel channel interaction, time-varying ROIs, spike modeling, and more, continues to improve Recast's proprietary media mix model.
Download our free MMM E-Book: https://getrecast.com/ebook
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