OUR TEAM

Wisdom Health is the world’s largest DNA platform for dogs and cats. Engineering @ Wisdom is at the heart of delivering pet parents health and ancestry information. Your work will directly influence millions of users as they learn more about their pets by building new APIs, interfaces and experiences.

You will partner closely with our business, product, design, engineering and customer service teams to architect, build, manage, scale and grow various capabilities that power Wisdom Panel experience. This role also works closely with our International and Partnerships team to provide technical thought leadership as well as pipelining delivery and execution of partner specific capabilities while keeping an eye, negotiating meaningful tradeoffs with internal stakeholders as well as incrementally building towards mid and long term roadmap items. This team is focused on building solid backend as well as core services exposed through APIs that power our DNA and ancestry experience. 

HOW YOU’LL HELP EVERYONE PET PARENT LIKE A PRO

As the Director of Engineering, you will manage a 8-10 member team of full-time associates with varying levels of seniority as well as niche contractors and be responsible for managing all aspects of Wisdom Panel Engineering. This team partners closely with consumer and OneKinship engineering teams to co-own the experience for our customers and partners. This role works very closely with design, product and marketing teams and will be responsible for owning delivery of engineering while keeping org and operational efficiency in focus.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead an existing team of 8-10 associates of engineers and contractors
• Hire new talent for fast growth, mentor and grow the existing team. Be an inspiring coach
• Partner with design, product and marketing teams to build highly scalable and efficient technology across Wisdom Health experiences
• Partner with our business to understand their short as well as long term needs while providing clear, transparent and timely updates
• As a core part of the tech leadership team, partner with other tech and engineering functions while maintaining high accountability and a keen eye towards reusability, efficiency and scale
• Drive consistent results through empowerment of our associates while partnering with our talent partners to reward our high performers and constantly raising the bar for quality, efficiency and throughput of our engineering teams

THE PRO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

As Kinship people, we have three pillars that set out how we aim to be--in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other. We call these our Cultural Pillars. In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who are Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. And for this role, you’ll need these skills to knock it out of the dog park:

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

• You Have Courage: a willingness to bring forth a new idea, engaging others across Kinship to support you, and taking risks and action will full accountability
• You Learn at Pace: a consistent and fast work ethic to meet growth goals, and the ability to evolve and pivot quickly from what you’ve learned
• You Value Difference: a genuine belief in inclusion and diversity is in your DNA, and it shows up in your work, and how you work. 
• You are pragmatic thinker and outcome driven collaborator
• You are a coach and sees importance to mentor junior engineers
• You are able to go technically deep as well as cover a wide range of shared engineering capabilities

 TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• 10+ years of experience in software development with at least 5+ years of experience managing teams with directors and managers and large, impactful engineering and technical outcomes
• Proven experience building teams with exceptional talent
• Hands on engineering management, comfortable modernizing existing stack and establishing new, modern ones
• 7+ years advanced modern Javascript experience (Ember, React, Vue, Angular, etc)
• Experience building RESTful APIs in Ruby / RoR (JSON::API is a plus)
• Relational Database structure (Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Expertise using industry standard methodologies (Github, Gitflow, CI, CD, etc)
• Comfortable deploying software to major cloud platforms (AWS, Heroku, GCP, etc)
• Proven experience in building scalable platforms
• Excellent grasp of modern cloud friendly technologies build over multiple years of rigorous and progressive hands-on experience 
• Solid experience using open source technologies to build engineering products at scale
• Experience in building API Management Platform
• Prior experience on building high scale micro-services
• Prior hands on experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or comparable public cloud
• Deep understanding of architectural tradeoffs optimized for scale and throughput
• Experience with human health or related disruptive domain or pet tech is a big plus