Director of Engineering, Proton.ai
$223-250k
+ Company Stock Options
3+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
AI-powered CRM built for distributors
Open for applications
AI-powered CRM built for distributors
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$223-250k
+ Company Stock Options
3+ days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To optimize distributors' sales operations.
Role
Who you are
- At a minimum, a U.S. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, or a related field, or the foreign degree equivalent
- 5 years’ progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation
- Experience with software development using the following programming languages: Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Experience designing architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, including APIs, high volume data pipelines, and data structures
- Experience using Infrastructure software tools, including GitHub Actions, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Redis, Docker, or Microservices
- Experience managing/leading a team of engineers throughout technical software engineering projects
What the job involves
- Proton is looking for a Director of Engineering to join our fast-growing team
- Design and oversee agile development, testing, and release processes to ensure product quality and reliability
- Ensure that development teams adhere to modern agile continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) software development practices
- Manage daily Scrum ceremonies and long-term development estimates to deliver new product features on time and with high levels of testing and quality
- Manage forward-looking technology backlogs to maintain low defects, focusing on security, upgrades, patches, and platform scalability and stability
- Optimize and drive efficiency within the engineering organization to deliver projects on time and meet customer requirements
- Ensure visibility and predictability around engineering processes and systems to enhance organizational efficiency
- Measure code quality and workflow efficiency for the whole organization and develop improvement plans
- Identify and establish useful metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the organization, and closely measure the engineering team's impact on the business
- Scale and grow the engineering team through hiring, onboarding, and by fostering a learning environment with professional development, coaching, mentoring, and performance management
- Become an expert on our customers by learning and understanding their needs, collecting feedback, and conveying product features
- Participate in and engage with sales and/or customer success calls, in- person sessions, and user research
- Work closely with the Executive team to ensure that engineering resources are aligned with business priorities
- Regularly visit and meet with customers to understand their needs to support continued organizational success
Our take
With the increased migration to the digital world, sales teams are under mounting pressure. Proton.ai is one of a crop of new companies that solves this problem through automation.
The sales automation market is booming, and companies are having to specialize in order to survive. Proton.ai has carved out a successful niche by focusing its attention on wholesale distributors, a previously underserved corner of the sales sector. Proton.ai's tools help sales reps and their customers manage products across multiple channels.
By tapping into the lucrative wholesale market and working with (rather than against) incumbent enterprises, Proton.ai has scaled at an enviable pace. Its considerable funding will help the company to remain competitive, especially against the likes of Shopify, which has made a successful move into the wholesale eCommerce market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2023
$10m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company benefits
- Company stock options: We believe everyone should own a part of something they help build, so we offer company equity to all employees
- Fully remote flexible schedule: Work is important to us. As is being flexible. We know life doesn’t always land outside of a 9-5 schedule and make space for you to live your life
- 401k with employer contribution: We believe it's important to help our team plan for the future. For U.S. employees (for now), we directly contribute a 3% match of your salary to a 401k
- Health benefits: Get access to great healthcare benefits
- Required PTO: We offer unlimited PTO, and we make sure everyone takes at least 2 weeks off per year
- Company wellness days: In addition to company holidays, we offer wellness days, when the whole company takes a day off to rest and recuperate
- 12 weeks paid parental leave: 12 weeks paid parental benefit for all parents (birthing, non-birthing, adopting, fostering)
- Company-paid off-sites: Enjoy in-person brainstorming and team-building. All expenses covered so you can focus on bonding with the entire team
Company HQ
Cambridge Highlands, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Benjamin Cohen
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Researcher at Harvard Business School, before joining the Data and Marketing team at Danaher Corporation.
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