Software Engineering Manager, ditto
Networking
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Data sync platform
Open for applications
Data sync platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To expand the internet via software enabling devices to synchronise data in realtime, even where the internet doesn't reach.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, and career development
- 2+ years of technical leadership, including driving best practices, project scoping and design, and providing architectural guidance
- A background in network engineering and technical understanding of foundational networking concepts such as TCP/IP networking, congestion control, multiplexing, and packet framing
- A willingness to travel, including internationally, once a quarter for team get togethers
- Strong communication skills, particularly written communication skills. As a fully distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written architecture and design documents
Desirable
- Experience managing a remote, globally distributed team
- Strong understanding of networking protocols (TCP, UDP, BGP, etc) and core concepts
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or equivalent qualifications
- Experience with mesh networks, BLE, Wifi, and other mobile transports/radios (Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, etc)
- Experience with working on standards alliances or committees in the wireless or broader networking space
- Experience with networking and development across many platforms and operating systems, especially mobile
- Experience with modern advancements in networking such as fountain codes, QUIC protocol, noise encryption framework, etc
- Experience benchmarking, debugging and optimizing mesh networks
- Experience with external radios or transmission systems including space or underwater environments
- Experience with architecting secure communications with authentication and encryption
- Prior experience leading a team of specifically Rust or network software engineers
What the job involves
- Lead and magnify the impact of a team of 4-8 skilled individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
- Be an active part of the design of the system architecture
- Collaborate closely with other software teams within Ditto
- Work with product and design to build the roadmap for the team; this will involve talking to engineers, researchers, other teams, customers, and partners
- Estimate the delivery timeline for projects and communicate with upper management and the broader team regarding project execution
- Set team culture by example, expanding Ditto’s culture of Trust, Communication, and Continual Improvement
Our take
While it's convenient to assume that all the data an app needs is always located in a single place, the reality is more messy. Multi-cloud platforms, IoT devices with varied or limited connectivity and even smartphones can hold necessary data for many applications. The problem for developers is how to tame, access and use this data. Ditto exists to fix this, providing a distributed database that pulls and synchronises data from edge devices and the cloud.
Able to operate even in locations without internet, using peer-to-peer WiFi, Bluetooth and wired networks to pull data together, it provides a layer of infrastructure which is increasingly required as IoT picks up steam. However, it is not the only entrant in this growing market, and faces competition from the likes of Whalesync, PieSync and Grouparoo.
While most of these companies provide the same kind of functionality, Ditto's large and growing customer base in the tens of thousands (including the likes of the US Air Force, Lufthansa and Japan Airlines) indicates that its product is a strong competitor in this space. It has also attracted the attention of investors, most recently closing a hefty Series A round. It intends to use this funding to almost double its headcount and to focus on commercializing its product.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
146% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2023
$45m
SERIES A
Nov 2021
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $54m
Company benefits
- Fully Remote
Articles
Leadership
Max Alexander
(CPO)An extensive background in development, more recently working as a Mobile Engineer for Hipmunk and Product Engineer for Realm Inc.
Adam Fish
(CEO)Co-founded Roobiq in 2011. Following this they were VP of Product at Realm Inc and a Technical Consultant at HBO.
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