Senior Director Of Engineering, SilverRail Technologies
1 day a week in office
Digital infrastructure for a global rail industry
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure for a global rail industry
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
1 day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make rail easy for travellers, agencies and train operators.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years’ experience as a senior manager in bookings, e-commerce and back-end software development
- Responsible for the technical strategy and direction of the platform
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to develop and communicate the technical vision and strategy
- Passion and experience building a payment stack within order management or booking systems
- Experience with modern data storage using NoSQL
- Experience with Java, AWS, cloud native and managed services
- Experience with building RESTful Web services
- Experience with build, test and deploy automation (Continuous Integration and Delivery – CI/CD)
- Experience working with product management teams to define customer requirements
- Ability to, in conjunction with stakeholders, build realistic business plans and budgets
- Ability to collaborate with partner engineering teams on a highly technical product
- Demonstrated strong leadership and decision-making skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage a team across geographically distributed locations, with a mix of hybrid and fully remote teams
- Excellent interpersonal, analytic and problem-solving skills
- Extensive experience with building e-commerce or booking applications is essential
- Self-motivated, able to work independently and perform multiple tasks under minimal supervision
- Confidence to participate and contribute within a fast-paced, technically challenging, highly skilled and collegial development team
- Knowledge of the travel industry a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to join our team, playing a pivotal role in our growing global Engineering team here at SilverRail
- The Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the delivery of our product - on time, on budget, of the highest quality and efficiency - to the marketplace
- The team works closely with the product management team, providing the technical architecture and engineering execution strategy to the product team's functional and non-functional requirements
- The Senior Director of Engineering is responsible for directly managing the development and quality assurance teams focused on our booking and payments platform
- An important part of this is working with the product management team to define scope and deliverables to achieve the overall product plan and goals of the company
- Additionally, this role will work with the relevant teams to optimize the operational deployment and support of the production systems to maximize velocity of code to production while protecting stability of the application
- Work with Product Management and Technology Development to define the roadmap and go to market plan of our new booking and e-commerce platform
- Responsible for the delivery and technical execution
- As an integral partner to the leadership team, you'll share responsibility for leading the strategic planning for SilverRail’s booking platform
- Help refine and continuously improve methodologies for documentation, process, quality assurance across the software development lifecycle
- Help define QoS and SLA metrics for application performance, as well as building and managing a team to test and certify that all metrics are achieved or exceeded
- Build, grow and manage a team of professionals to ensure exceptional execution
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Consumers and organisations are swapping out airline and motor travel for cleaner alternatives and a greener future, creating a potentially substantial customer windfall for rail companies. However, customers are increasingly expecting comprehensive, streamlined digital apps, booking portals and payment systems - all of which the rail industry has previously struggled with in the past.
This is where SilverRail comes in. They are building innovative, modern technology to drive the rail industry into the new age. SilverRail has netted much of the UK, EU and US market with clients like National Rail, Chiltern Railways, Grand Central, and SNCF.
SilverLine helps rail companies get a step ahead, with a suite of digital infrastructure tools including journey planning solutions, sales distribution, payment methods, data insights, and a ticket issuing system. The idea is to help them deliver better services, more simply, and cheaper - which in turn gives companies more leeway to pass on savings to the customers and a smoother journey.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2024
$3.3m
SEED
Oct 2024
$2.1m
SEED
Total funding: $76.8m
Company HQ
Covent Garden, London, UK
Leadership
Aaron Gowell
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Paratrooper with the US Army. They then went on to work as a Bain & Company Associate, then a Venture Capitalist with General Catalyst (where they later served as Entrepreneur in Residence). Also served as COO of Starboard Cruise, then CEO of National Leisure Group.
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