Senior Director of Engineering, Bolt
$300-370k
+ Equity
One-click checkout solution for online payments
Open for applications
One-click checkout solution for online payments
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$300-370k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize commerce by setting a new standard for buying and selling online.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of professional engineering experience building consumer grade applications, ideally at a scaled startup
- 7+ years of experience as an influential technical leader at a business or business unit level
- Clearly able to articulate both the what and how of operational excellence
- Experience providing technical oversight and direction for multiple engineering teams in a space building products for consumers at scale
- Experience architecting solutions for routing and rendering content at the infrastructure level, comfortable using tools like DNS, load balancers, and CDN
- Experience in data platforms and machine learning is a plus, but not required
- Are curious and passionate about technology
- Believe in our values
- Are excited about jumping into any area of technology
- Have strong communication skills
What the job involves
- We're searching for a Senior Director, Engineering to join our engineering leadership team and play a crucial role in shaping our technological foundation
- This is not your typical Director role - you'll be a hands-on leader with the experience to guide multiple teams
- You will lead a team and work directly with product and engineering leaders in helping to shape and define market-leading solutions in the face of ambiguous requirements
- You will have influence and oversight over building cutting-edge consumer software and the rock-solid backend to power it all
- Work with a passionate, smart and ambitious team of engineers who built large scale systems at Uber, AirBnB, Facebook and Google
- Take ownership of your own projects while pairing with mentors
- Defining the technical vision of Bolt Products
- Design and build mission critical systems, products and solutions that companies and consumers alike will rely heavily on
- Lead a small team of Engineering Managers each with their own team of direct reports
- Contribute cross stack and learn a wide variety of skills and technologies
- Oversee teams in the US and abroad
- Work with production systems and on-call processes
- Learn from and help shape our company's engineering culture
Our take
Designed to replace existing checkout models and make buying on any device easy and safe, Bolt provides a one-click checkout solution. Its online shopping software is utilized by companies like Brooks Brothers and Forever 21. As well as supporting all major card providers and alternative payment methods like PayPal, customers also don't need a username or password. This reduces cart abandonment and increases merchant conversion rates.
The company has seen impressive growth, annually processing more than $1 billion in retail transactions across its 300+ retailers. While Bolt has won the race against Google, who tried, and failed with Google Checkout, there are other 'one-click' competitors to watch out for, including Square, who has over 30 million monthly active users.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$355m
SERIES E
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $963m
Company benefits
- Four-Day Workweek, flexible working hours, & unlimited PTO time to promote a healthy work-life balance
- 100% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
- Remote First location policy to allow team members to live where they choose
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
- Early Exercise program to help Bolters maximize the value of their equity
- 401K program to help you invest in your future
- Learning & Development stipend to grow your skills
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- 11 paid company holidays per year, 5 additional floating holidays, & your birthday off
Company values
- Win-Win Partnerships - Bolt thinks critically about culture. They’re not just a list of values on the wall, they’re instilled into our everyday practices. We create an environment where the best ideas win, not the loudest voices in the room
- Writing > Talking - We value writing over talking, it promotes systematic thought and reasoned arguments; creates a results-oriented mindset, removes the influence of the loudest voices in the room, and fosters collaboration across the organization
- Live Curiously - We believe a learning and growth mindset is how we evolve and grow as a business and as individuals. At its core, a growth mindset requires curiosity, humility, and openness to giving and receiving feedback from everyone we work with
- Founder Mentality - We embrace the founder mentality — that means approaching every problem as if we owned the company (because we do), having a bias for action, and doing everything possible to achieve our goals
- United + Unique - Our team is united by many shared values (hunger to solve hard problems, passion for our mission, thoughtfulness, etc). But we also value the strength that comes when we acknowledge, respect, and embrace our unique histories, skills, and experiences. And, we firmly believe that we win when we are united in our differences
- Be 20% Wrong, Chase 10X - We move fast, take risks, and chase big outcomes wherever possible. We act fearlessly, take action without waiting for consensus, experiment, fail (and learn from it) and try again
Company HQ
Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ryan Breslow
(Chairman)They studied Computer Science at Stanford before working as a Stanford-StartX Coach for 4 years and founding Bolt in 2015. Stepped down as CEO to assume the role of Chairman. They found the company Love in Jan 2022.
Maju Kuruvilla
(CEO, not founder)Extensive history in software engineering. Former VP of Amazon. Took on the role of CPTO at Bolt before subsequently going on to become the company CEO.
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