Director of Engineering, Placer.ai

• Demonstrated multi-year experience in full-stack engineering, focused on user experience of large-scale data display systems
• Proven ability to recruit, train and maintain star developers in America
• Leader, technical mentor and a people manager with strong communication and collaboration skills
• Hands-on manager, who loves to write and review code, with hands-on experience in recent full-stack / front-end mapping technologies
• Strong coding skills and a “get-things-done” approach
• Ability to Engineer, design and develop large scale, high performance mapping components
• Extensive experience in designing and building scalable frontend infrastructure, easily maintained and extended
• Critical / First principle thinking - able to identify root causes of issues and tightly collaborate with all parts of the organization
• Familiarity with recent technologies in the Full-stack / Front-end domain

Desirable

• We are looking for a Director of Engineering - Maps to lead our Mapping and GIS engineering team
• In this full-stack role, you will own and grow Placer’s mapping experiences and infrastructure, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Placer’s product suite and platform
• Recruit, train and manage a team of stellar full-stack engineers
• Manage and technically lead full-stack, US & Latam based engineering teams
• Lead the architecture, design and development of our mapping infrastructure and user experiences
• Technically interface with a large number of teams, and provide mapping services for our Dashboards, customer reports and, partners (as embedded widgets)
• Participate in the development of our long term product vision
• Collaborate with product managers, and be close to our business requirements and business needs