Aspire is hiring a
Director of Engineering in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Director of Engineering at Aspire.io, a fast-growing word-of-mouth commerce platform. The role involves managing a team of engineers, implementing engineering best practices, and working closely with product managers and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience in managing large teams, has strong communication skills, and has worked with B2B companies.

Requirements

• Managed a team of 30+ people for web application development at product-centric, customer-obsessed companies, and you have significant remote management experience
• A history of insisting on the highest standards, hiring bar raisers, coaching managers and engineers to be outcome driven with a customer mindset, and effectively dealing with underperformance
• Willing and able to dive deep, acting as a head of the engineering team as well as a tech lead and scrum master whenever necessary, ultimately ensuring that decisions are made quickly and effectively at every level
• Have had experience at B2B companies working closely with enterprise customers and have developed excellent communication skills
• Have previously established a technical strategy and roadmap by developing a deep understanding of tech debt and aligning with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders
• Ability to gather product & business requirements and align and motivate engineers to work towards clear goals. Proven track record establishing and driving technical advances, reducing tech debt and aligning teams around customers

Responsibilities

• Fostering and championing a customer-obsessed team culture that embraces ownership, trust, and collaboration
• Ensuring your teams are consistently delivering against their roadmaps and achieving the goals and outcomes they have committed to
• Establishing a high bar for your team, ensuring best practices are followed, and delivering consistent, constructive feedback to help your engineers and managers learn and grow
• Take ownership of the technical and organizational strategy for the engineering department and aligning it with product leadership to plan out the team’s quarterly roadmaps and goals
• Identifying and implementing best practices to improve our team culture, product development process and overall development experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with some parts of our tech stack: NodeJS, React, Typescript, Python, GraphQL, Django, Database: PostgreSQL (Google Cloud SQL), Redis, Google Cloud Datastore, Infrastructure/Systems: Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, Auth0, Datadog

Benefits

• Flexible work from home policy
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 4 months paid parental leave
• Work from home reimbursement ($50/month)
• Personalized career planning sessions
• Annual education credit of $2500
• Mentorship program
• Professional coaching
• Visibility into operations across the company
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance + 401(k) (where applicable)