Director of Engineering, Dollar Shave Club
$200-220k
+ Bonus
Mens shaving and grooming subscription service
Job no longer available
Mens shaving and grooming subscription service
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$200-220k
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
Dollar Shave Club's mission is to provide awesome men's grooming products that make life easier.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent; MBA specializing in Technology preferred
- 8+ years of software development experience; at least 2 years managing a team of 3-5 engineers and managers preferred
- Experience in eCommerce preferred
- Shopify platform and integration experience, experience building and scaling backend microservices, and modern API experience a must
- Ruby, Node, or Python experience with Rails or an equivalent framework
- Experience with internationalization and localization, relational database modeling, and streaming processing applications; ability to continuously deliver
- Preferred experience with cutting edge backend stacks, multiple microservice architectures and frameworks, building billing systems (specifically subscription billing) and shipping, fulfillment, and order management systems; experience with information management systems a plus
- General domain knowledge of Finance and Accounting
- Prior experience with high volume and traffic sites preferred
What the job involves
- The Director, Engineering will lead our Engineering department. This role will be part of the technology leadership team and will serve as one of the technology partners for the business
- The Director will connect the Engineering team with the rest of the business and vice versa, effectively advocating for both sides
- We are looking for someone to drive technical project scoping and delivery, hold their team accountable for deliverables and drive the execution and planning of the long-term vision for our backend platforms
- The Director, Engineering will also raise the general level of management skills in the team and build effective leaders within the department
- Work collaboratively with Tech Leadership, Tech PM, Enterprise Applications, the Data Team and Product Management to ideate, scope, plan, estimate, coordinate, de-risk and deliver large company-roadmap-level solutions
- Identify process bottlenecks and opportunities for continuous improvement of our software delivery processes
- Mentor the Engineering team on modern best practices in Software Development and hold them accountable for following through
- Identify and flag risks early, working proactively to remove blockers for the team
- Allocate backend engineering bandwidth to squads based on business needs
- Coach squad tech leads under their purview on consistent software delivery processes
- Partner with Tech PM, Enterprise Applications, Data Services, Digital Product, Lifecycle Marketing, Growth, Information Systems and Finance teams to come up with creative technology solutions to business problems; communicate technical topics effectively to business partners
- Improve visibility into backend engineering projects, architecture and development workflows for business partners
- Translate business needs and priorities for the backend engineers and ensure that they are aligned with the business; manage performance and uphold deadlines/goals for team members; mentor the team on both Technical and Management aspects
- Attract, hire & retain highly skilled engineers; assess skills & build career development plans for team members
- Raise the general leadership level of the team; set actionable goals for the team, keeping them aligned with our company goals; foster good working relationships both within the team and between backend engineers and their partners; define an optimal org structure within the backend org
- Work with DTC Leadership, Enterprise Applications, Tech PM, and Data Team to continue to iterate and scope enhancements and integrations
- Keep up with the latest trends in Engineering technologies, especially as it relates to e-commerce experience; nurture the platform architecture as we regularly add features to it
- Collaboratively build a Technology platform roadmap and drive the delivery and execution of it; drive continuous testing/integration/delivery best practices for tech platforms
- Foster healthy discussion on technology topics within the team and drive them towards making data-informed decisions; ensure that our production applications and build pipelines are performant, reliable, responsive, maintainable and of high quality with minimal tech debt
- While this position is not expected to be an individual contributor on a consistent basis, a person filling this role is expected to be hands-on enough to be able to jump in and help their team with technical issues or handle production spelunking as needed
- To this end, picking a small project or two every now and then to keep in touch with our stack is expected
Our take
Dollar Shave Club (DSC) is an online shaving subscription retail company and men's lifestyle brand that was bought by Unilever for $1 billion in 2016. As well as offering a shaving subscription for men, it sells DSC-branded shaving and skincare products, undercutting incumbents like Proctor & Gamble.
Established by a marketing professional with global brand experience, DSC is an example of how startups can flourish with the right marketing team and business model behind them. Now, with Unilever's backing, DSC is making the transition from an online shaving brand to an omnichannel men's lifestyle brand with a presence in drugstores and grocery retailers across the US.
While DSC was the first company to offer shaving subscriptions, it has since been joined by other top names in men's skincare including Gillette and Harry's. DSC now boasts over 4 million subscriptions worldwide, but now under the Unilever umbrella, it faces financial disarray, job cuts, and share price drops from its owners. Unilever is focussing on simplifying its business network, which could have knock-on effects for DSC in the long term.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2015
$90.7m
SERIES D
Jun 2015
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $238.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Weekly car washes, in-house barista, free electric car charging stations, weekly haircuts & massages
- Monthly all company events
- 401k plan
- Learning and development opportunities
- Equal opportunity employer
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Jason Goldberger
(CEO, not founder)Has 20 years of experience in e-commerce general management, previously serving as CEO for Sur La Table and Blue Nile. Current Strategic Advisor for Contentsquare and Member of the Board Of Directors for Babylist. Became CEO of Dollar Shave Club in 2021.
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