Director - Engineering - IT

About the Role:

Our Engineers love solving complex industry problems by building modular and scalable solutions using cutting edge technology. Your peers will be an exceptional group of Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Infrastructure and Solution Architects.

We are looking to hire a Director of Engg to lead Engineering on our SAAS products. This role will report into our VP of Engineering. This role would involve designing, building and delivering software products for our enterprise clients, leveraging the latest developments in cloud hosted micro services, data warehousing, AI & ML. The focus of this role would also be on attracting the best talent, setting longer term technical vision and creating a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

- Own the engineering function for Freight Tiger's SAAS product suite.

- Oversee all software development activity - manage tasks, milestones, and dependencies across multiple concurrent projects.

- Lead a team of Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers and top notch engineers to own, drive and deliver critical parts of the product.

- Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving the product towards the long-term vision.

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Product Mgmt, Business, Sales etc) to improve product capabilities and services.

- Provide technology leadership and create a collaborative working environment.

- Ensure implementation of formal best practices and standards for software development.

- Play an active role in hiring, training, mentoring, and motivating a world-class engineering talent pool.

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities and negotiate the best possible outcomes for the organisation.

Preferred Qualifications/Skills

- 5+ years of experience directly managing teams of Software Engineers.

- 13+ years of hands-on software development experience.

- Deep experience in building enterprise software solutions.

- A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent.

- Proficiency in languages such as PHP, NodeJS, Java, Golang, Scala.

- Familiarity with database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka.

- SAP & Integration experience a bonus.

- Highly analytical with the ability to think first principles. Has excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make quick decisions based on business needs.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.