Director of Engineering

Summary

Join Veza as their Director of Engineering and lead their talented engineering team. You will define the technical vision and roadmap, oversee software product development and delivery, and foster a culture of innovation. This key leadership role requires experience building enterprise SaaS products and managing distributed teams. You will collaborate with product managers, other stakeholders, and hire and retain engineering talent. The position offers a competitive benefits package including equity, in addition to base pay determined by experience and qualifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 4+ years in a leadership role
• Should have experience building enterprise SaaS products
• Experience building, delivering and managing support for SaaS products that stream large amounts of data
• Experience building and delivering services in AWS and/or on Kubernetes
• Experience leading and managing a fully distributed team
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and modern software delivery process
• Knowledge of Agile development, including Scrum management, stories, defect tracking & management, product backlog, JIRA and MVP
• Excellent interpersonal and technical communication skills
• Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects
• Relentlessly high standards (never satisfied with the status quo)
• Able to dive deep, never out of touch with the details of the business and technology
• Hands-on, “can do” attitude and a bias for action
• Low ego and high intellectual curiosity

Responsibilities

• Serve as the engineering leader for engineering deliverables
• Create detailed engineering execution plans, cadence and processes for engineering team members to use and abide by
• Propose and oversee resources, dependencies and timelines for engineering projects
• Execute on engineering processes and plan, iterate on processes based on teams’ feedback, ensure customer deliverables are on time
• Drive the team to strive for the best quality for completed projects
• Drive the Engineering team to have end-to-end ownership of their deliverables, including development, testing, deployment and support
• Cultivate a high-pace and resilient engineering culture for continuous innovations
• Cross-team collaboration
• Work with product managers to note down the product requirements and customers’ use cases, and work as a team for prioritization and adjustments of the deliverables if needed
• Clear engineering communications on key engineering fronts - priority, engineering achievements, alignment with leadership team
• Communicate and collaborate with other managers and stakeholders
• Have a process to hire, onboard, grow and retain engineering talent
• Answer questions and address issues brought forth by the engineering team members
• Mentor and challenge team members for better productivity
• Build plans for engineering resources to deliver product roadmap items
• Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams, fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and inclusive work environment
• Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and the entire engineering team on track
• Experience working with product, design, business and leadership in setting the long term strategic direction for team and product
• Ability to wear multiple hats in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Spearhead various research and development initiatives to identify opportunities for new projects and improved processes
• Prepare and deliver various engineering-related presentations, both internally and externally
• Startup experiences that scale a team from under 20 to 40+

Benefits

• Equity
• Competitive benefits package