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Director of Software Engineering
web.com
New York, NY, United States
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Position Summary
As a Director of Engineering at Web.com you will provide strong leadership and help to drive product development and strategy. The software development function is responsible for enhancements to existing products as well as new product development.
Responsibilities
• Oversee several software engineering feature teams
• Collaborate with feature teams and other leaders to ensure success of strategic business projects
• Constantly iterate on and improve the development process
• Deliver clear vision, direction, and standards for the engineering organization and ensure their compliance.
• Fosters and maintains close working relationships with the Product, QA, and UX departments.
• Provide career development, coaching and performance management for engineers, team leads and engineering managers
• Participate in phone screening and interview process to bring new talent in to the engineering organization
• Help reinforce a great engineering culture at Yodle
• Ensure process and standards compliance, design and implementation quality and participate in the development and evolution of same.
• Work on issues that impact development success or address future concepts, products or technologies
• Establish transparency by broadly communicating architecture and strategy goals and ensuring compliance.
• Conduct regular 1:1s. Provide useful feedback to your direct reports, peers, managers, and others in the company.
• Clearly communicate the business goals to the engineers and keep them front and center. Ensure engineering is always adding business value. Communicate engineering tactics to the business side.
• Adroitly prioritize tech-debt pay-down projects as well as larger strategic initiatives (versioned deployments, deployment frequency).
Qualifications
• Knowledge of the theory and experience with the practices of DevOps and Continuous Integration.
• Track record of hiring great people
• Experience with languages and frameworks like: Java, Spring, Javascript, AngularJS, Scala, Play, Guice
• Experience with development methodologies like: agile, TDD, code reviews
• Experience with data storage and infrastructure like: Mongodb, Postgresql, Rabbitmq, Kafka, Redis, Elastic search
• Experience developing in a Microservice/ SOA environment is a plus
Minimum Experience Required:
• Demonstrated success managing 10+ engineers using agile, collaborative practices
• Strong team-oriented communicator with a demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally