Director of Engineering, Enterprise Apps
DISQO is changing the way that the world’s largest brands, agencies and consumer intelligence companies get to know their consumers. We’ve built the first identity-based platform that combines consumer attitudes and behaviors together to power the most accurate and predictive insights solutions for our customers, and we do all of that with the willing participation of our consumers and without using outdated technologies like third-party cookies. We help our customers get a cross-platform view into consumer sentiment, measure advertising effectiveness, analyze consumer purchase journeys, and ultimately grow their brands.
Our mission at DISQO is to engage people to share their opinions and behaviors openly to help our customers make the right decisions. With over one million active members sharing their attitudes and behaviors, DISQO is looking to expand, improve and create world-class applications for people to openly share their data for research.
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The Role: DISQO is looking for a Director of Software Engineering, Enterprise Apps to join our engineering leadership team. This person will be responsible for and will have broad responsibility over our engineering vision, strategy, execution and team development as they relate to DISQO’s enterprise products, including Market Research, Ad Measurement and Data Solutions. This is a highly impactful role for the success of DISQO as we become a multi-product company, expand internationally and continue to disrupt the $80B insights industry.
The ideal Candidate: DISQO’s product and engineering team has been doubling every year and accounts for ~50% of the company’s headcount today and we continue to invest heavily in scaling our technology and our engineering teams that drive DISQO’s growth. We are looking for an engineering leader to help scale our enterprise Software Engineering team in US (and US friendly time zones, i.e. Canada and Central/South America) to be able to support our growth and build a foundation for DISQO’s future products. As an exceptional engineering leader, you are growth oriented and have a proven track record of building highly effective geo-distributed engineering teams who make the impossible possible. You will need to be a strategic thinker, frame & find solutions to complex engineering and people challenges, measure & drive results, and be able to move fast and maintain focus on the highest impact initiatives while keeping track of trade-offs made along the way.
What you will do:
- Scale our enterprise software engineering team in the US (and US friendly time zones, +/-3 hours) and build a world-class culture that engineers relish being a part of.
- Grow our software engineering teams by coaching and mentoring our current leaders and inspiring them with a compelling vision & strategy and by recruiting and hiring additional top talent.
- Use a "Product Management" mindset to engage with internal and external stakeholders to align on engineering vision, strategy and priorities to drive measurable results. You should be able to present and drive alignment around the vision and strategy to create a clear long range roadmap.
- Define and own the Enterprise Software Engineering OKRs and roadmap and conduct quarterly roadmap reviews. In addition, you should be able to champion and partner with our engineering leaders to set and maintain effective SLOs across the org.
- Drive multiple high-profile program work streams across multiple B2B products.
- Work closely with our CTO, VP of Engineering and our product & engineering leadership to set standards around patterns, frameworks, technologies, and processes to promote a simple and consistent approach across multiple types of services.
- Be the champion of our DevSecOps culture and build a strong cross-collaboration between Software, Platform, SRE and Security Engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Data Engineering and Platform Engineering teams to design and build modern cloud-native data and ML pipelines
- Identify trends and promote solutions across multiple product areas by being an influencer around software architecture best practices, including quality, supportability, scalability, performance, availability, maintainability, extensibility, and security.
- Drive transparency and decision-making through the product and engineering leadership team with blameless postmortems and iterative improvement programs that focus on product scale and quality.
- Role model Servant Leadership, making leadership excellence a continuous priority for your own personal development and that of your teams.
- Embrace, model and champion all of DISQO’s values - adding to the growth of our culture
- Strong work ethic with the ability to understand and exhibit Agile principles and methodology
What you’ll bring:
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, building big data enterprise SaaS, PaaS or IaaS products using public clouds (Ideally AWS).
- 5+ years of experience leading geo-distributed enterprise scale engineering teams. We are looking for individuals with demonstrated repeat business growth or exit successes in high profile startups, specifically with experience building platforms (decentralized/microservice-based systems, data analytics/processing, infrastructure-based privacy software or multi-party compute platforms).
- 3+ years of experience with batch processing, job scheduling and event processing on AWS (Airflow/Step Functions, Lambdas, SNS, Kinesis/Kinesis Data Analytics/Kinesis Firehose, Kafka, etc)
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge of ETL, Data Warehousing, Big Data systems, large scale transformations, and data modeling.
- Strong ability to inspire and lead others.
- Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles/processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, TDD, XP) and continuous improvement through measurement.
- Deep experience with AWS, modern data processing products and microservices architecture.
- Experience with containerization and Kubernetes
- Ability to operate effectively in both tactical and strategic capacities - You can comfortably adjust your altitude and roll-up your sleeves as needed
- Experience with rapid scaling of engineering teams by hiring and retaining exceptional talent
- Commitment to product excellence and experience promoting the right balance between best practices and feature delivery
- Demonstrated experience of promoting culture and diversity throughout a large engineering organization to achieve transformational change
- Excellent communication skills for both horizontal and vertical organizational lines
- Advertising industry experience is highly desirable
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Servant Leader and Agile DNA
Perks & Benefits:
·100% covered Medical/Dental/Vision for employee, 80% for dependents
·Equity
·Unlimited Vacation
·Flexible work hours
·Quarterly Offsites
·401K
·Life Insurance
·FSA
·Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
·Disability Insurance
·Travel Assistance Program
·24/7 Counseling Services offered to employees
DISQO is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery, innovation, and growth are possible when we open ourselves to new possibilities, perspectives, and approaches. That’s why, at DISQO, we welcome, support, and empower individuals from diverse backgrounds. Exceptional teams are rooted in extraordinary people, each with a unique story and a compelling set of skills. DISQO does not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), genetic information, protected military or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
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