Director of Engineering
PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to bring governments and people closer together through our award-winning, SaaS platform.
Our mission is to enable the citizen transaction and payment market for North American government by providing the most innovative, effective, delightful, impactful and trusted digital government experience and wallet solutions.
As a Govtech 100 company five years running, PayIt is covering new ground and innovating experiences we can all relate to. Along with our government partners, we are transforming the customer experience and making government more modern, convenient, and mobile.
As a well-funded scale-up stage organization, we raised over $100M+ from Insight Partners to continue to build on our best-in-class platform.
Our award winning platform has a track record of success, being named The #1 Best Tech Start-Up In Kansas City, Missouri in 2020 and 2021, a 2021 Forbes Best Startup Employer, as well as one of the Nation's Top Ten Government Tech Startups of the Year.
About the Director of Engineering Role:
The Director of Engineering will manage, support and provide direction and leadership to Team Mangers and Leaders. Candidates must possess a history of strong leadership, deep practical development and technical knowledge and a proven track record for timely project delivery, project management, cost control and customer satisfaction. This successful candidate must be able to work effectively in a team environment and will interface closely with the Quality Assurance, Project Management, Finance, Marketing, Client Success, and other departments. The desired individual is someone who will bring knowledge and creativity to the position as well as have the discipline to drive results.
What You’ll Need to Have:
- 12-15 years experience in a technical environment. 8-10 years of people management experience with 3-5 years managing multiple teams.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Ability to write clear, measurable, achievable goals and objectives.
- Strong People management skills. Ability to build strong, self-managing teams.
- Budget planning and management experience
- Knowledge of monitor, how to set up and scale servers for an ecommerce environment
- Able to evaluate HW & SW needs for the projects and evaluate necessary third-party products
- Ability to schedule/assign tasks/estimate duration/completion times within an Agile framework.
- Agile, Extreme Programming, Rapid Prototype Development, SCRUM knowledge
- Good multi-tasking skills. Ability to handle multiple teams and multiple projects.
- Good project planning skills. Project Management skills
- Solid knowledge of software development and product ship cycles.
- Demonstrated flexibility
- Excellent communication skills and good presentation skills
- Experienced using Visio, Excel, Word and Powerpoint
- Strong technical skills
- Engineering core skills (data structures & algorithms, coding, formal test techniques, etc.)
- Experience developing web-based applications, preferably public web site components with international audiences, ecommerce with shopping carts and serving large amounts of data, text and multi-media
- Experience in coding in compiled languages such as Java and scripting languages such as Python and Javascript
- Knowledge of GitHub and feature flagging
- Knowledge of AWS
- Knowledge of setting up environments such as Dev, Test, Staging and Production
- Knowledge of CI/CD techniques and the ability to instruct groups how to deploy products for continuous integration with rollout and fallback procedures
- Ability to work in a mixed platform environment
- Experience with developing, deploying and maintaining international web-based eCommerce systems
Desired Skills (Bonus Points For):
- Design and architecture skills
- Experience using Collaboration software
- Experience using bug tracking systems such as Jira
- Knowledge of User Stories and Scrum tools
- Knowledge of component, workflow and sequence diagramming
- Knowledge of User Stories
Why Work For Us:
- Our most important resource is our people. We value your feedback and have a unique environment where collaboration and bottom-up feedback about the problems we are solving is critical to our daily success.
- Saving someone’s day is a rewarding way to spend yours. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and directly impact the lives of our neighbors, friends and ourselves.
- We know how to have fun and work toward something bigger than ourselves.
- Competitive salaries along with an excellent benefits package.
- Flexible and friendly work environment. We offered flexible working arrangements long before a global pandemic forced other companies to adapt.
- We believe our culture permeates throughout our product and service, so it’s one of customer-first.
- We’ll provide all the resources you need to do your best work.
What We Care About:
High aptitude, high integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team. We’re about openness, integrity, accessibility and great communication.
The usability of our products, sharing of ideas across teams, and commitment to the cities, counties, and states we serve are values.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.
PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this time.
To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers’ alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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