Senior Director of Engineering, Rula

• 15+ years in software engineering, 10+ in engineering leadership roles, at least 3 years managing managers
• At least 8 years experience working in application development teams (as an engineer or manager)
• Experience managing third-party integrations that are in the critical path of operations
• Experience building or leading teams in a SaaS environment, ideally in AWS
• Experience leading teams in a scrum agile environment

Desirable

• This role is an opportunity to join a small and growing company to lead a team on the journey of maturing our application and operating posture
• You will bring your industry expertise from leading larger teams or in more mature organizations to inspire and grow managers to execute against roadmap priorities, build for long-term stability, scale, and security, and grow to be good leaders themselves
• You will lead engineering efforts to assess and improve third-party integrations to improve scale, security, and reliability. This is a leadership role managing managers and not a hands-on technical role
• Success will be measured by the ability to lead through others, teaching leadership and stakeholder management principles, and setting, measuring, and achieving technical and project goals
• You will provide overall oversight for the projects within your domain, making appropriate risk-based tradeoff decisions and collaborating across other engineering leaders in the organization to drive the best overall outcomes for Rula
• This is still a small organization and as a result a breadth of leadership ability is required to be successful
• You will have a leadership voice across engineering and into parts of the business in areas related to application development and are expected to bring best practices in the areas of people, process, or technology to contribute to the broader success of the organization
• You will use your excellent communication skills to effectively manage out and up in the organization on engineering and execution-related topics that drive effective decision-making and keep stakeholders and partners informed
• You will act as the primary leadership contact to third-party technical partners