Head of Backend Development

Summary

Join Doist's Backend team as a leader, overseeing a team of 11 engineers. You will grow and support your team, foster continuous improvement, drive the technical strategy, and plan company-wide initiatives. This role requires strong technical skills, experience building long-lasting codebases, and a passion for building high-quality software. You'll be responsible for setting the team up for success, coaching and providing guidance, and contributing to Doist's overall engineering strategy. Doist offers competitive pay, remote work flexibility, generous time off, and various professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Having ambition, drive, and experience in building long-lasting codebases and APIs that serve millions of real customers and are continuously improved and modernized
• Being technical and hands-on. You understand that engineering management is a technical discipline that requires engaging in technical decision-making. You realize that strong technical instincts and continuously honing them is vital for thriving in that process
• Building teams primarily based on trust, autonomy, and transparency. You provide high-level vision in a way that's inspiring to pursue and easy to understand, while carefully incorporating input from the team and spreading ownership over its execution
• Supporting and mentoring a resilient team while investing in each person's individual growth. You realize that leadership comes with responsibility and restraint, and that your topmost priority is the motivation and well-being of your team
• Actively engaging in improving our products. You understand that great products are multidisciplinary and that  “product” is everyone’s job, requiring initiative and proactive collaboration
• Focusing on the long-term and uncompromising in yours and Doist's values. You want to join a remote-first company that's multicultural and distributed worldwide, and you're looking to commit to this challenge for many years

Responsibilities

• Grow, support, and empower a world-class team of 11 Backend Engineers (including 3 Leads who report directly to you) who are autonomous, productive, and fulfilled. You will be responsible for setting the team up for success, while coaching and providing guidance along the way
• Foster continuous improvement while improving the team's workflows and processes as context changes. You will ensure that tooling and workflows are appropriate, facilitate team brainstorms, while driving and documenting high-level ideas, goals, and best practices. You will foster knowledge sharing
• Drive the vision, technical strategy, and technical roadmap for the team and its technology stack. You will do this in an egalitarian way, often facilitating discussions and delegating decision-making. You will do this at scale, serving tens of millions of users and billions of data items
• Plan and prioritize company-wide initiatives , coordinating and communicating with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as other Engineering teams, Product, or Customer Experience
• Plan and prioritize internal initiatives that pay back debt and modernize our systems, contributing to each work cycle by reviewing priorities, availability, and optimal matching of people to projects. You will periodically share updates so that everyone is aware of what's going on behind the scenes
• Contribute to shared values, standards, and processes with other Engineering leaders, ultimately shaping up Engineering at Doist as a whole
• Shape Doist’s future , by being part of the leadership team and actively collaborating with other leaders on company-wide initiatives, challenges, and opportunities

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the world. We never place restrictions on locations
• Design your own schedule. Work no more than 40 hours/week
• Competitive pay. Our formula-based salary calculation provides a highly competitive rate based on your skills and location
• Pursue personal projects. All Doisters get one month per year to spend on a work-related project they’re passionate about
• Attend conferences. You’ll have a recurring budget to spend on attending conferences that grow your professional knowledge, skills, and network
• Company retreats. Our annual company-wide retreats are unforgettable
• Cozy up at a coworking space. Find a coworking space that’s right for you and Doist will cover the expense
• Apps and services budget. You’ll have a monthly budget to spend on services that help you do your job
• Hardware budget. You’ll have access to a recurring budget to spend on work-related equipment
• Generous time off. Doisters get 8 weeks (40 days) of PTO/year to use as they wish on vacations and national holidays
• Parental leave. New parents receive 5 weeks of paid parental leave in addition to 13 weeks of paid pregnancy-related medical leave
• Invest in your health and wellness. You’ll have a monthly budget to spend on things like gym membership, healthy snacks, massages, health insurance, etc