Director of Engineering – EU / South Korea

Time zones: SBT (UTC +11), GMT (UTC +0), CET (UTC +1), EET (UTC +2), MSK (UTC +3), JST (UTC +9), CST (UTC +8), WIB (UTC +7), MMT (UTC +6:30), BST (UTC +6), NPT (UTC +5:45), IST (UTC +5:30), UZT (UTC +5), IRDT (UTC +4:30), GST (UTC +4)

Responsibilities:
Build, guide, scale, and mentor our high-performance engineering teams. You will directly support and manage some of our product development engineering leads (they support multiple engineers)
Support the creation and execution of delivery plans and quarterly team goals, deploy best-in-class processes, and innovate in software engineering
Proactively identify, prioritize, triage, and resolve issues as they arise while working closely with other engineering leaders
Help support multiple work streams, projects, and deliverables of your teams
Collaborate with technical architects, product managers, web designers, Customer Success, Sales, and other teams to help ship the technology needed for product and architectural enhancements
Responsibilities are approximately 70% team management/people support and 30% tech (tech design input, architecture and PR reviews, coding, etc.). Despite the increasingly strategic nature of the role, we expect you to have a strong engineering background to support your teams sufficiently
Job requirements
Professionally
At least 8 years of experience in web development with at least 3 years of experience managing multiple engineering teams
Experience managing multiple engineering managers (or tech/eng leads)
Strong database knowledge and understanding of commercial services on cloud providers
Strong technical leadership skills, including architecting robust distributed systems
Successful track record recruiting, retaining, managing, and onboarding software engineers
Empathetic, with a preference for servant leadership, and respected as a team builder and mentor
Next to speaking English fluently, you can understand and translate business requirements into clearly articulated technology solutions
Excellent communication skills
Nice to Have
Experience with Ruby on Rails
Experience with PostgreSQL
Experience with Javascript
Experience with AWS (especially Kubernetes clusters)
Experience with CI/CD systems
Familiarity with Data Engineering infrastructure
Behaviourally
You’re passionate about what you do
You’re pragmatic; you know when to be hands-on and enjoy taking the lead in challenging situations; you know when it’s best to build and when it’s best to buy
You’re eager to learn and inspire change
You thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment