Director of Software Engineering

Note: This is a remote position, applicants do not need to be located in NY.

Our client is seeking a gifted Software Engineering manager to help support and grow their investor identity platform. This is a significant opportunity to be part of a growing team and help shape the way they develop, deploy, and operate production quality systems. In this role, your work will make a significant impact on our client's customers, stakeholders, and ability to continue to scale.

Why our client?

Engineers at our client love building products, emphasizing efficiency and developer happiness. We deploy at-will, many times a day, coordinated via Slack, GitHub, and Shortcut. As a remote-first team, we will always prefer asynchronous processes. As a result, our morning standup is the only recurring meeting and we Write Things Down™. That goes for requirements and documentation, but also our company handbook. Through collaboration, we prioritize the best answer — regardless who comes up with it — and believe "done" is better than "perfect."

We want to work with curious, self-motivated engineers who enjoy learning new technologies. We all learned Elixir on the job, for instance. So, instead of looking for people with "X years doing Y," we're glad to find those with opinions on a variety of languages and approaches. We're excited to know there's always more to learn; if you feel the same, let's work together!

Our frontend is React/GraphQL/Relay. Our backend is Elixir/Phoenix — with a dash of Go and NodeJS — on PostgreSQL. We deploy on AWS, provisioned through Terraform.

We’ve just raised our Series A from Union Square Ventures, and we are hiring multiple people for this role. We'd love to talk to you!

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction for a growing team of software engineers
• Work closely with the CTO and business leadership to describe, prioritize, and complete product work
• Leverage an Elixir Phoenix backend running on Amazon’s latest serverless technologies to power a Javascript/React frontend. Candidates do not need prior experience with any of these specific languages/frameworks, but they should have strong experience developing full stack web applications in some language/framework.
• Engineer innovative approaches for collecting a variety of business critical metrics from our client's various consumer-facing digital experiences.
• Regularly collaborate with other partners on the legal, sales, and business development sides to scope potential new work

Requirements

We are looking for candidates who:

• Possess not only leadership skills but who also maintain strong, full-stack technical skills
• Enjoy working in a collaborative environment where engineers are expected not only to build great technology, but also to define project vision, specify technical strategy, and always be learning
• Demonstrable proficiency and a track record of professional success leading engineering teams
• Experience presenting to audiences and communicating effectively and empathetically with clients and other stakeholders

While this is a potentially director level, they are a small team and very much looking for a "manager of engineers" rather than a "manager of managers." Their ideal candidate can help provide technical direction based on existing technical knowledge and expertise - and isn't afraid to run code locally and even pitch in to help the team from time to time.

Strong preference will be given to candidates who have experience:

• Writing code in Go, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Rust, or Clojure
• Using Amazon Web Services
• Previously serving in a security / pen testing role
• Querying Google’s BigQuery / large relational datasets
• Developing with React or Angular

Compensation / Benefits

Our client provides equity grants as well as a competitive benefits package (health/vision/dental insurance, 401k, home office setup, unlimited paid leave, and more).

While this is a remote role, please note that they are not considering candidates located outside of the US, nor are they able to provide visa sponsorship at this time.