MAN-010 Director of Engineering

Canada-wide Remote

Our Client believes housing shouldn’t constrain how, where, and when you want to live. That’s what their founders knew when they started in 2015, setting out to make renting a home easier. The goal then—and now—is to create a new, modern mode of housing, making it easy to live well—reliably, safely, comfortably, even stylishly—wherever, whenever.

Based in San Francisco and backed by Airbnb, Comcast, Bowery, and Initialized Capital, they’ve raised $90M in funding.

Our Client is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our engineering team of 12. They plan on growing our engineering team, so you will also need to hire new engineers and manage the team through rapid growth. You will need to balance the day-to-day needs of shipping with the long-term investments that will keep the team shipping high quality software.

What You'll Do

  • Mentor engineers and engineering managers
  • Hire and retain engineers
  • Be the face of engineering and communicate with product and business teams throughout; constantly iterate on our engineering processes to serve the company best
  • Lead architectural decisions
  • Identify tech debt and develop a plan for paying it off
  • Maintain processes for bugs, testing, and code reviews
  • Increase developer productivity/happiness: develop internal libraries, and developer tools
  • Plan projects with engineers and managers; we have an iterative style so break down big projects into 1-2 week milestones

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years experience as an engineer
  • 5+ years experience as an engineering manager or higher
  • You are a servant leader
  • You prefer an iterative, fast-paced development style
  • You are pragmatic and flexible; you will adapt your process to what's needed by the company
  • You make everyone feel a part of your team
  • You are approachable and welcome feedback
  • You foster psychological safety
  • You are detail-oriented and data-driven
  • You have an ownership mentality; you balance what's best for engineering with what's best for the company
  • It's a bonus if you have experience in a company with extensive internal tools; experience in an operations-heavy company; and/or experience with our tech stack of React/Rails/Postgres/AWS