Director of Engineering, Collective
$255-300k
+ Equity
Back-office platform for self-employed people
Open for applications
Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$255-300k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4+ years of management experience
- Technical depth to drive end-to-end systems ownership, including architecture, design, and data modeling
- Demonstrated success in operating as a player-coach, maintaining hands-on technical proficiency
- Experience managing a team that has delivered a great product with solid foundations
- Organizational leadership experience, including experience collaborating with non-technical stakeholders and weighing tradeoffs
- A track record of encouraging a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Director of Engineering to build and evolve the core product experiences that power Collective’s member platform
- This is an engineering leadership role with high ownership across Product, Design, and Operations to lead the teams to ship fast and iterate based on real customer needs
- You’ll be expected to encourage the use of modern AI tools and agent-based workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and unlock new product capabilities
- Act as a player-coach, balancing hands-on technical contribution and people leadership
- Lead, mentor, and grow managers and leaders, fostering a culture of high-performance and empathy
- Work with teams of talented engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver a robust platform
- Define, own, and ensure the timely delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible engineering projects
- Drive clarity about architecture, design, and product decisions across teams, utilizing full-stack capability (e.g., Python/Django backend, React frontend)
- Manage team processes and interface effectively with non-technical stakeholders, including Operations teams
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives and drive conversations from engineering teams to executive leadership
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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