Director of Engineering

Posted 2024-09-20

💎 Seniority level: Director, A minimum of 5 years

📍 Location: Poland

🔍 Industry: Enterprise security products

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: A minimum of 5 years

🪄 Skills: PythonKubernetesMachine LearningC++GoRustDevOps

A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes.
Strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and ideally C/C++, Go, or Rust.
Experience with DevOps/systems integration and test-driven design in large scale systems.
Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
Strong interpersonal skills for effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
Expertise in architecture and business/product need mapping.

Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of technical teams focused on security and machine learning.
Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales for translating business requirements.
Maintain standards of software quality and high availability.
Drive automation and instrumentation for observability and break-fix.
Model go-to-market strategies and oversee architecture with sales and product teams.
Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies.

Posted 2024-08-30

📍 Europe

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 AI and software development

🏢 Company: Zencoder

Strong technical background with extensive experience as a software engineer building complex solutions and a deep understanding of modern engineering practices.
Demonstrated experience in recruiting, building, scaling, structuring, and leading technical engineering teams in a startup and scaleup environment.
Proven track record of delivering complex 'deep tech' products with a high degree of ambiguity and tight deadlines.
Experience delivering solutions that had millions of users.
Experience running 100+ engineer organizations.
Experience growing teams by dozens of engineers a year.
Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse international teams and stakeholders.
Ability to move fast in a dynamic environment with strong ownership.
Firm grasp of GenAI technologies and real-world experience integrating AI technologies into innovative products.

Scale up engineering teams rapidly, ensuring effective leadership and growth.
Define and execute the engineering strategy in alignment with the product roadmap, ensuring coherent decision-making across teams.
Champion delivery focus and general operational and execution excellence.
Lead the adoption of best practices in system design, release management, reliability, and scalability.
Cultivate strong relationships with key customers, understand their needs and pain points, and take ownership of problems when they arise.
Design and implement processes and the management structure that enable the team to scale efficiently while maintaining startup agility.
Lead the recruitment, onboarding, and development of a top-notch engineering team.
Foster a strong culture in engineering through knowledge-sharing practices, hackathons, and technical workshops.

LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentStrategyRelease ManagementCommunication SkillsCollaborationProblem Solving

Posted 2024-08-30

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