Job Posting for Director of Engineering at GoCardless
The role
As a Director of Engineering, you’ll be helping us build and grow an outstanding engineering team and culture in our Riga HQ2. You will lead multiple teams of talented and creative engineers who build products and systems they are proud of. You will help improve other managers through growing future and current leaders within the business while pushing for exceptionally high-quality work and empowering our engineers to make a big impact.
We’re looking for a talented leader who wants to focus on Engineering excellence, growing and retaining brilliant talent while setting the direction and cutting through complexities to drive a high performance culture.
What excites you
Owning the roadmap - Strategically plan our reliability and future delivery with other Senior Leaders while prioritising Technical Investment with a clearly articulated ROI
Embracing change - you have a growth mindset, are open to new ideas and change while being committed to focus and speed.
Cutting through the complexity - You’re a self-starter who can take ambiguous problems that may be outside your experience and apply first principles thinking and reasoning to decompose, hypothesise, test, execute, and deliver.
Being Customer obsessed - you focus on the outcomes and impact of customers in the work we deliver
Delivery - you thrive on getting things done, and enabling those around you to get more done.
Being a Player-manager - you can deep dive into technical challenges and future architecture.
Excellence - you recognise the importance of building a high-performance engineering culture
What excites us
Experience of building and managingagile teams/departments of 20 people. Experienced with managing both manager and individual contributors up to Principal level.
Experience of working at scale - where security and operational excellence are critical to success
Delivery - Somebody who ensures project work is delivered, that estimates are accurate, that time is tracked and that velocity is measured and used as a way to improve the teams
Clear communication - concise, regular communication to a leadership team (often non-technical) on progress against strategy and team objectives will be needed.
A strategic mindset - tackling the long-term roadmaps and dealing with our longer term problems and vision.
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