Description:
Get Ready to:
Lead with Technical Excellence
- Act as a principal technical advisor to the Director of Engineering, guiding strategic technical initiatives.
- Lead the design and architecture for complex, cross-product systems and features.
- Provide technical oversight, mentorship, and guidance across multiple engineering teams.
- Drive technical decision-making, architecture reviews, and risk mitigation across projects.
Elevate Organizational Effectiveness
- Implement and standardize best practices for engineering across teams.
- Optimize and refine engineering processes to boost team efficiency and effectiveness.
- Drive technical quality initiatives and establish metrics to measure success.
- Facilitate post-mortems and implement solutions for continuous improvement.
Strategize and Execute for Impact
- Collaborate with the Director of Engineering to define and communicate the technical strategy.
- Represent engineering leadership in cross-functional planning and align technical goals with business objectives.
- Identify opportunities for innovation while balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health.
Build Teams and Foster Culture
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, supporting their growth and success.
- Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Promote knowledge sharing across teams and support the development of career growth frameworks.
- Provide expertise in hiring and team-building to scale the engineering organization.
Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Represent engineering leadership in critical meetings and decision-making forums.
- Build strong partnerships with product, design, and other stakeholders to align technical and business goals.
- Clearly communicate technical opportunities and constraints to business stakeholders.
- Lead resolution of complex, multi-team technical challenges.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
- Strong backend development skills with Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, and other server-side languages.
- Proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable applications.
- Expertise in relational databases, including query optimization and resolving concurrency challenges.
- Deep knowledge of OOP, design patterns, system design, and architecture.
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including leadership in organizations with 30+ engineers.
- Excellent technical communication, documentation and mentoring skills.
- Proven ability to align engineering initiatives with business objectives through cross-functional collaboration.
You're the Leader We're Looking For if You:
- You are based in GMT+3 max
- Excel in both autonomous and collaborative environments.
- Solve complex technical challenges with strategic vision, driving impactful engineering decisions and hands-on expertise.
- Foster a culture of genuine care, excellence, and continuous improvement.