Director of Engineering

Summary

Join Minted as the Director of Engineering, Shopping and E-commerce to lead and transform the company's core e-commerce and digital customer experiences. This pivotal role involves driving innovation, enhancing performance, and guiding architectural evolution across critical systems. You will oversee a team of approximately 25 engineers, focusing on modernizing and optimizing the marketing and e-commerce flow. The position requires collaboration with various teams, leading strategic initiatives, and building a culture of engineering excellence. You will guide critical technical decisions, manage vendors, and contribute to talent acquisition. This is a challenging opportunity for a leader passionate about transforming technology and impacting customer experience.

Requirements

• A highly collaborative leader who builds strong, trusting relationships across functions, driving effective partnerships with product, design, and business stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes
• A seasoned engineering leader with extensive experience in software development and proven success managing engineering teams, including front-line managers
• Technically astute, having previously held a Staff+ Engineer or Architect role, capable of guiding complex architectural decisions for high-volume, high-performance consumer web applications
• Cognizant of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming engineering practices, e-commerce personalization, and operational efficiency
• A change-maker who identifies opportunities for architectural evolution, proactively addressing technical debt and leading large-scale transformations
• Passionate about the end-user experience, consistently striving to improve site performance and overall reliability for a consumer-facing platform
• An exceptional mentor who excels at fostering the growth and career development of highly technical teams and leaders
• A clear and effective communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Comfortable and effective working in a highly product driven organization
• Proven experience in guiding teams through large-scale architectural transformations, specifically migrating from monolithic systems to Service-Oriented Architectures
• Hands-on experience with modern web technologies such as React (front-end) and Python (back-end)
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Fastly, and LaunchDarkly
• Prior experience building and operating high-volume, high-performance consumer websites

Responsibilities

• Actively foster a culture of effective and efficient collaboration with product management, UX, analytics, business partners, and other engineering and product teams to achieve shared goals
• Be responsible for the successful completion of our ongoing migration from a legacy monolithic architecture to a modern Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Lead engineering efforts for strategic business initiatives, including optimizing traffic channels, modernizing search and discovery, and revamping core business logic like pricing and promotions
• Build and manage a process for sustained engineering and operational excellence, continuously elevating practices, promoting robust testing, and data-driven decisions
• Provide leadership and mentorship to Engineering Managers and a Principal Engineer, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement within the engineering teams
• Guide critical technical decisions across the Shopping and Discovery engineering stack, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability for the platform
• Oversee the development and optimization of all commerce-related features, enhancing key performance indicators for the customer journey
• Manage third-party vendors and partnerships, ensuring accountability for the total cost of ownership of our e-commerce systems
• Actively contribute to talent development and acquisition, attracting, hiring, and growing top-tier engineering talent and leaders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a rapidly evolving e-commerce environment
• Experience integrating with data pipelines
• Background with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation in a consumer product context

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Employer Funded Health Savings Account
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employer Paid Wellbeing Apps (e.g. Headspace and Calm)
• Monthly Gym/Wellness Reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Employer Funded Commuter Benefits
• Employee Discount
• Friends and Family Discount
• This role is eligible for bonus and stock options