Director, Engineering (Remote)

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About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced engineering director to grow and lead our team of engineers working on our products. The team works closely with our other product teams, and we’re looking for an engineering leader who can excel at defining our strategy, translating that strategy into staffing and technical roadmaps, and then grow and manage the team to execute on those roadmaps. Your team will build across all our platforms, including web, iOS and Android. Your team of engineers will be working on every part of the stack: web, backend, API, database, analytics.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for hiring additional engineers to fill out the team, with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and staffing and structuring your team to meet business needs.

• Manage your team and help them to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, agile, high-growth environment.

• Make technology, infrastructure, architectural, and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale.

• Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within each team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, editorial, data science, and marketing teams to define strategy and execute on roadmaps.

• Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams while also delivering clean, performant code (this role has an expectation of staying close to the codebase).

• Hold regular 1:1s, evaluate performance, and provide consistent productive feedback.

• Help engineers learn the skills needed to advance in their career.

• Work with engineers and product managers to iterate on and improve team processes and efficiency.

• Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team.

• Experience leading a team building both web and iOS/Android products.

• Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team highly desired (but not required).

• Experience with some portion of our tech stack, and an appetite to learn the remainder: Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS.