Director of Engineering - EU/South Korea
ChartMogul
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We are looking to hire a Director of Engineering, a critical and visible role at ChartMogul. You will report to the VP of Engineering, and your primary responsibilities will be to support people and projects and help set the technical direction for your teams. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our product, and as you grow into the role, you will take on additional functions, such as supporting tech architects and other teams in Engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Build, guide, scale, and mentor our high-performance engineering teams. You will directly support and manage some of our product development engineering leads (they support multiple engineers)
- Support the creation and execution of delivery plans and quarterly team goals, deploy best-in-class processes, and innovate in software engineering
- Proactively identify, prioritize, triage, and resolve issues as they arise while working closely with other engineering leaders
- Help support multiple work streams, projects, and deliverables of your teams
- Collaborate with technical architects, product managers, web designers, Customer Success, Sales, and other teams to help ship the technology needed for product and architectural enhancements
- Responsibilities are approximately 70% team management/people support and 30% tech (tech design input, architecture and PR reviews, coding, etc.). Despite the increasingly strategic nature of the role, we expect you to have a strong engineering background to support your teams sufficiently
Job requirements
Professionally
- At least 8 years of experience in web development with at least 3 years of experience managing multiple engineering teams
- Experience managing multiple engineering managers (or tech/eng leads)
- Strong database knowledge and understanding of commercial services on cloud providers
- Strong technical leadership skills, including architecting robust distributed systems
- Successful track record recruiting, retaining, managing, and onboarding software engineers
- Empathetic, with a preference for servant leadership, and respected as a team builder and mentor
- Next to speaking English fluently, you can understand and translate business requirements into clearly articulated technology solutions
- Excellent communication skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with PostgresSQL
- Experience with Javascript
- Experience with AWS (especially Kubernetes clusters)
- Experience with CI/CD systems
- Familiarity with Data Engineering infrastructure
Behaviourally
- You're passionate about what you do
- You're pragmatic; you know when to be hands-on and enjoy taking the lead in challenging situations; you know when it's best to build and when it's best to buy
- You're eager to learn and inspire change
- You thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment
What is it like to work at ChartMogul?
- You'll join the adventures of an early-stage company and experience what it means to have an incredibly impactful job
- You'll become part of a team of friendly, awesome, and highly dedicated people who all have the same mission: Helping companies build better businesses
- Flexible hours with a healthy work-life balance
- All employees, including contractors, receive sick days, paid holiday days, and paternity leave
- You'll receive an excellent salary pack (market or upmarket)!
Application Process
- Review application
- Interviews
- VP Engineering
- Tech round (you'll have a chance to meet some of the people you'll be supporting)
- Director of Engineering
- CEO
- Reference checks
- Offer
This is a full-time remote position. Please note that we can only consider applicants who are eligible to work in the EU or South Korea at this time.
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