Associate Director - Software Engineering

Primary Responsibilities :

- Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics

- Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements.

- Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments

- Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner

- Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables

- Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Basic Qualifications:

- 7+ years of relevant engineering experience

- 2+ years of people management experience, managing engineers

- Proficiency in Microservices architecture

- Ability to solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions

- Ability to think critically and actively contribute to strategic choices.

- Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures

- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions

- Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables

- Excellent knowledge of Java, Rest APIs and SOA

- Strong background in Cloud computing, preferably AWS