Forerunner is hiring a
Director of Engineering

Summary

The job is for a Director of Engineering at Forerunner, a company focused on climate adaptation software. The role involves managing the engineering team, building efficiency across the organization, constructing measurable success metrics, coding alongside the team, and more. The company offers competitive compensation, health/vision/dental coverage, a 401k plan, one expensed lunch per week, and a quarterly wellness reimbursement.

Requirements

A working understanding of at least a few of the following technologies: Typescript, React.js, React Native, GraphQL, API powered by a Node.js backend with jest for testing, Postgres, git, Github, and Github Actions, Deployment to AWS using ECS and similar products, A variety of other cloud providers, such as GCP

Responsibilities

• Manage 2-3 Technical Lead Managers that guide our team of full stack engineers
• Partner with the Leadership team to build efficiency and efficacy across the engineering organization while scaling the team and product
• Construct measurable success metrics to provide clear guidance around performance expectations within each level on the engineering team
• Code alongside the engineering team to show what engineering excellence looks like
• Guide the Engineering team to add accuracy to planning and estimation of tickets to ensure we achieve our goals
• Collaborate with our Talent & People Lead to identify, hire and onboard key engineering talent as the team scales
• Build internal structure suitable for scaling with a culture that fosters growth, collaboration, quality and customer empathy
• Partner with the Product Lead to build out best practices and resource plan against upcoming efforts
• Drive consensus across engineering, product, design, and customer success to determine priority projects

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health/vision/dental coverage
• 401k plan
• One expensed lunch per week
• Quarterly wellness reimbursement