Director of Engineering

October 3

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Narvar

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retail • post-purchase • returns • logistics • supply chain

201 - 500

💰 $30M Series C on 2018-08

Description

• Narvar is growing! As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for building and growing the engineering team across Narvar that builds consumer-facing SaaS products. • You will partner with our product team to develop experiences for our clients and their end consumers. • You will play a meaningful role in amplifying the value of our platform by assuring the seamless development & delivery of product features. • You will organize team structure, build leveling charts, and be an integral part of the hiring process. • In this role, you will lead the production of product services and consumer-facing products that both engage and delight users. • In this role, you will be focused on: • building and scaling tooling to make merchants successful in onboarding, testing & managing Narvar products • building and scaling a workflow engine & journey editor to easily define and orchestrate customer experience across Narvar products. • Day-to-day • Build and lead the operational and directional aspects of your engineering team and help the members grow both technically and professionally. • Translate requirements to work streams for your team to design, estimate, develop, and launch new products & features. • Lead, inspire, teach, and influence your team to embrace modern engineering practices that enable them to frequently release high-quality services. • Work with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent. • Collaborate with other managers to ensure we are building products that provide a consistent and powerful experience. • Establish great rapport with Product Managers, Sales, and Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. • Provide production support for customer issues and proactively work to improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

• You have a BS/MS in computer science, information systems, or equivalent • You have 8+ years of software development experience and are an engineer at heart • At least one year of experience working in a Director capacity which includes the following: • Experience managing a Manager • At least 5 years of experience as a Manager • Previous startup experience required • You have successfully built and managed high performance distributed teams • You excel in an informal, fast-paced startup environment with a flat organizational structure • Can communicate technical designs and processes to both technical and non-technical audiences • You have experience building high performance, scalable, highly available, and reliable consumer facing applications • You have solid organizational and communication skills, the ability to prioritize tasks, keep projects on schedule & high quality standards along with capability to roll your sleeves when needed • Extensive experience designing, building and integrating with RESTful APIs • Experience with Frontend frameworks and technologies like React, Svelte, Typescript • Experience designing and scaling relational and NoSQL database platforms (such as MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticache) • You have experience with cloud technologies (AWS or GCS), schema design, optimization, query analysis, and databases • Deep hands-on expertise in one (Java) or more of the following server-side languages: Java, Python, Go, Scala, Rust