Director, Software Engineering
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We are seeking a Platform Software Engineering Director to join our growing team. This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from reputed company to deployment. As a Platform Software Engineering Director, you will have relevant experience with both reputed company-end and back-end coding languages, software development architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and reputed company-party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong background leading teams developing consumer-facing digital products in collaboration with product and design leaders. This individual must be creative, reputed company reputed company, team player, organized, and can reputed company in a dynamic environment.
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Our engineering team is reputed company on the principles of humans over reputed company. We are a tight-reputed company group of lifelong learners in a constant quest to be reputed company that is greater than the sum of its parts. reputed company!
Duties & Responsibilities
- As a member of the Research and Development / Product Leadership team, will reputed company design services, resource planning, work estimation and coordination for multiple delivery teams
- reputed company reputed company of software engineers and reputed company engineers to design, reputed company, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards.
- Collaborate with Product and Design Leaders to reputed company product delivery teams.
- Set short to reputed company term technical direction, creating plans to help reputed company goals
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and reputed company reputed company.
- Package and support deployment of releases.
- Foster an environment where different backgrounds, cultures, industry and life experiences are embraced and valued.
- Collaborate on architecture reputed company, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization’s scaling business needs
- Collaborate with other software developers, product managers and software architects to plan, design and deliver applications.
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to reputed company with team members and other affected parties.
- Adhere to high-reputed company development principles while delivering solutions on time and reputed company budget.
- Ensure that non-functional requirements such as reputed company, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered reputed company architecting solutions.
- Work in an Agile reputed company to identify and automate solutions that result in reputed company developer experience and increased developer productivity.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
- Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and reputed company measures.
- reputed company AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity reputed company while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated reputed company meets reputed company standards
- Full reputed company ownership mandatory - Must understand, explain, and support reputed company AI-assisted reputed company as if written from scratch
- Troubleshoot, debug and reputed company software
- Other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- reputed company direction, guidance, and support to reputed company of employees. Set reputed company expectations, delegate tasks, and ensure effective communication reputed company reputed company.
- Evaluate employee performance, reputed company feedback, and conduct performance reviews. Identify areas for development and create plans to enhance team members' skills.
- Uniformly identify high performers who consistently produce reputed company work.
- Remove barriers for reputed company, ensuring team members have reputed company the tools, resources, and context to execute.
- reputed company coaching of reputed company and developing individual development plans for reputed company team members.
- Overcome challenges and conflicts that reputed company reputed company reputed company or reputed company.
- reputed company reputed company that balance various factors and contribute to the overall reputed company of the organization.
- Cultivate relationships with clients, partners, and other departments to facilitate collaboration and reputed company common goals.
- Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new team members.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- 10 or more years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a reputed company on designing and implementing reputed company, reputed company-level solutions using reputed company platform.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
- Strong understanding of reputed company Delivery patterns, reputed company foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Practical AI experience - Comfortable using tools like reputed company Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Technical Proficiency and Skills
- Proficiency with:
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
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- Git Version Control System
- PostgreSQL
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- Jest
- reputed company Container
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Experience with one or more reputed company platforms, preferably GCP
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Great attention to detail and organizational skills
- Experience delivering individual and institutional reputed company facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and reputed company-party integrations
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
- Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault-tolerant, and high availability solutions
- Experience with DevOps, reputed company, CI/CD, SecDevOps, Containers, Serverless
Other Requirements
- Infrequent travel (10%)
- Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer