Director - Engineering - EduTech

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to join our team in the role of Director of Engineering.

In this role, you will:

- Scope and lead technical projects with enormous impact across many teams

- Lead recruitment of high quality engineers for our development team

- Directly contribute to product development by writing code

- Architect systems for scale and stability

- Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter

- Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like product, design, and customer success

You may be a fit if:

- You have a computer science or equivalent degree from a leading technology institute

- You have a strong technical background, with 5+ years of experience with software engineering

- You have managed engineering teams that have a strong record of shipping products

- You have successfully recruited and mentored engineers

- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable

Required technical skills:

- Proficiency in Javascript, HTML5/CSS3, SQL

- Experience with frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL

- Experience with databases technologies like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis

- Experience with dev ops - AWS, CI/CD

- Understanding of security principles and possible attacks

Within three months you will:

- Develop an in-depth understanding of our users and product

- Recruit a team of 3-5 engineers

- Lead engineering starting with one product team and keep switching between teams to establish rapport with every engineer and familiarity with the entire code base

- Define an efficient process for Agile software development and implement it across teams

Within six months you will:

- Lead engineering across all product teams at collaborating with the Product, Marketing & Customer Success to ship software of exceptional quality

- Define a process for maintaining healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures etc.)

- Take charge of engineering performance reviews and define an efficient system for promotions and firing

- Scale the team from time to time to ensure adequate engineering bandwidth