Director of Engineering

Base pay range

$130.00/hr - $150.00/hr

Title:

Director of Software Engineering

Location:

Remote (US/PT)
Duration: 6+ months contract to hire
Compensation: $/hr.
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Location:

Remote, but Los Angeles would be a preference

• Lead the engineering teams for the Payments vertical and ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders and dependency teams and drive alignment towards the roadmap and deliverables.
• Work with remote engineering teams located across the globe and inspire the teams to deliver on the mission.
• Participate in sales calls and pre-deal discussions with prospective clients. Be willing to travel occasionally for client meetings.
• Participate in architecture and solution design, mentoring engineers, exploring frameworks, toolsets or processes to improve the team's productivity and be accountable for quality software delivery.
• Identify and groom the leaders on the team and mentor them to be self starters and independent.
• Work closely with product & other non-technical staff, participate in code reviews, work with QA to review test plans, and oversee software development using Agile methodologies.
• Deliver projects that vary in scope from zero-to-launch in a short time to long-running roadmap projects that the team continuously iterates on.
• Continuously improve and uplevel the team, its deliverables and its processes.
• Contribute to the development of the product roadmap to prioritize features/projects to ensure that they deliver the highest value at the best time.
• Clearly communicate project status and risks to project stakeholders and senior leadership team members.
• Research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Manage resources within budget, both full time and staff augmentation and adapt budget accordingly based on changing company priorities.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, building products at web-scale.
• 4+ years of management experience and proven ability to lead a team through the full life cycle of software development.
• Experience working in a distributed systems environment with microservices and micro-frontends.
• Experience working with legacy systems and platform migration efforts.
• Experience working in a cloud based infrastructure.
• Strong technical skills in full stack software development across a wide variety of tech stacks.
• Experience working with the Payments industry, payments gateways or integrating with Payment providers would be a strong advantage.
• Experience working in sales-driven organizations or solutions engineering organizations would be a strong advantage.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and project management tools such as JIRA.
• Sufficient experience to review and understand code using React, GraphQL and Java.

• Ability to meet commitments and multitask in a fast-paced work environment.
• Must be a great Team Player and people manager, exhibiting a positive attitude.
• Ability to own and manage multiple concurrent projects, including presenting and negotiating with stakeholders on the interdependencies and possibilities of what can be realistically delivered.
• Expert at spotting talent and passionate about growing world class engineers on your team.
• Experience building services or applications where performance is an important consideration.
• Things that are easy at low scale can be incredibly challenging at scale so experience with performance tuning and optimizations is extremely valuable.

• Comprehens…