About the role
Responsibilities:
- Build, scale, develop, and manage teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other.
- Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact.
- Manage the processes necessary to operate the engineering teams effectively.
- Drive and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives.
- Plan and prioritize short-term and long-term engineering goals and guide teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work.
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Focus on developing their careers, and assign them to projects suitable to their skill levels, work styles, and professional goals.
- Own your team's deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly available products that delight our customers.
- Support the engineering and product teams in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease of use.
Requirements:
- You have 8+ years of experience with system architecture and have built scalable software infrastructure.
- You are a hands-on programmer and prefer to spend 20-30% of your time writing production-grade code with your team.
- You have a sound understanding of software engineering principles, both for code and for people.
- You have experience leading engineering teams.
- You are emphatic and highly customer-obsessed.
- You have an eye for great products and can work effectively with product managers, engineers, and designers to build them.