Director of Engineering, OpenPhone
Core Platforms
$207-257k
Salary variable on location. For Canadian candidates: $236,000 - $261,000 CAD + Equity
All-in-one phone system for teams
Be an early applicant
All-in-one phone system for teams
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$207-257k
Salary variable on location. For Canadian candidates: $236,000 - $261,000 CAD + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people communicate better and be more productive, and improve the way millions of businesses communicate.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading managers across orgs with multiple teams, demonstrating successful team growth and organisational development
- Strong hands-on background in software engineering, with deep understanding of software development principles, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices
- Proven experience building and operating cloud-based distributed systems at scale (AWS, GCP, Azure, or others)
- Experience working with modern cloud-native architectures and technologies (e.g., k8s, microservices, etc.)
- Track record of leading and scaling platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE teams
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with ability to influence cross-functionally
- Experience working in high-growth startup environments
- Experience managing distributed/remote engineering teams
- Proactive mindset with strong initiative
What the job involves
- As the Director of Engineering leading our Core Engineering Pillar, you’ll be in charge of enhancing developer experience, fortifying software security, infrastructure/operations, and quality engineering
- Your remit will oversee Platform, Security, QA, and IT teams, all of which play a critical role in contributing to OpenPhone’s success
- Strategic Leadership: You will develop and execute the technical vision for our infrastructure, security, and quality practices, ensuring alignment with OpenPhone's broader business objectives. This includes making key architectural decisions, setting technical standards, and driving engineering excellence across teams
- Ownership: You will be in charge of our Core Engineering pillar, helping to define its mandate, direction, and philosophy. This encompasses establishing best practices, implementing efficient processes, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Operational Excellence: You will establish and maintain key performance indicators for platform reliability, security posture, and engineering productivity, driving improvement in these areas
- Technical stack and tools:
- Cloud Technologies: AWS, PostgreSQL RDS, Kubernetes
- Observability: Datadog, OTEL
- AI: OpenAI, AWS Anthropic
- Orchestration: Terraform
- IT: Okta, Vanta
- Quality: Playwright, JEST
- Programming Language: TypeScript
Our take
Business phones are a vital resource for many companies, but buying a second phone for your team can be an expensive prospect. OpenPhone solves this problem by replacing business phones with an easy-to-access app.
OpenPhone leverages many of the advantages of a traditional business phone, allowing users to maintain work boundaries and privacy, without the need for new, high-cost hardware. By specifically targeting people looking for a business phone number, OpenPhone has attracted freelancers, small companies, contractors, and larger companies ready to modernize their existing phone systems.
Though there are competitors in the space, OpenPhone's unique approach allows it to stand out from the likes of Aircall and Airpad. The company has seen significant funding that it is investing in accelerated growth efforts, hiring, and the further development of its collaboration features and business tool integrations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Nov 2020
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.2m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Health benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans (covered 100% for you and 60% for your dependents)
- $1,000 budget to make your home office more comfortable
- Unlimited PTO, sick leave, and parental leave (we also close for all major holidays)
- Retirement benefits - we match 100% of the first 2% of your 401(k) contribution
- $3,000 per year towards your professional development and education
Company values
- Relentless - Success requires grit and determination. We are unyielding in our shared belief that anything is possible when we are willing to take calculated risks and operate with a strong sense of ownership
- Delightful - The smallest of details make the biggest difference. We are known to go the extra mile, paying careful attention to the little touches that add up to a truly meaningful and memorable experience
- Unified - Collaboration solves the hardest of problems. We are aligned by a shared purpose that combines our talents and contributions to surpass inevitable challenges and achieve greater results together
- Open - Disagreement and commitment can co-exist. We are motivated to venture out of our comfort zones, challenge one another’s ideas with positive intent, and embrace failure’s hard-earned lessons
- Innovative - Endless possibilities await beyond the status quo. We are encouraged and empowered to put forth bold new ideas, and iterate on existing ones, in order to foster groundbreaking solutions that set us apart
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Mahyarr Raissi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Tagged, and was a Product Manager at Joist.
Daryna Kulya
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously worked as Manager of Deloitte's Digital Innovation Lab, and was a Product Manager at Vidyard.
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