Director of Engineering
Posted on 9/12/2023
INACTIVE
Medely

1,001-5,000 employees

On-demand healthcare staffing platform
Consumer Goods

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$123M

Founded

2015

Headquarters

Santa Monica, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

36%

2 year growth

90%
Locations
United States
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Agile
Data Analysis
Docker
JavaScript
REST APIs
Ruby
Sales
SCRUM
Kubernetes
CategoriesNew
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related field
  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience, with 7+ years of technical leadership and people management experience
  • 2+ years of experience overseeing and mentoring engineering managers
  • Experience coping with a rapidly-growing team, company, and user base
  • Expertise in Agile principles and experience leading teams working with SCRUM methodologies; experience in continuous improvement of the development process
  • Experience leading major technical initiatives that have had a material impact on the business in terms of revenue generation or process improvement leading to cost reductions
  • Strong budgetary, projections, and cost control skills
  • Able to display a professional sense of urgency when communicating and interacting cross-functionally
  • Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical applications
  • Thorough understanding of Site Reliability and Platform Engineering principles
  • Exposure to Ruby, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Experience with APIs (REST and GraphQL)
  • Understanding of client-side JavaScript frameworks, large-scale systems design experience
  • Possess a growth mindset: Live and breathe experimentation, data analysis, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact
  • Committed desire to understand our customers
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective communicator at all levels
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with key business stakeholders to deliver world-class software
  • Support the engineering managers and engineers reporting to you by meeting with them regularly, providing timely feedback, and working with them on growing their skills and helping them reach their career goals
  • Develop engineering strategies that align with Medely's goals and objectives
  • Be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of technical projects
  • Drive the technical vision of your products, and connect them to the success of the company
  • Research new technologies or methodologies that can improve the architecture, user experience, or development process
  • Oversight of the maintenance to ensure production-ready backend systems and frameworks, while focusing on efficiency and optimization
  • Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of our products
  • Continuously raise the bar by hiring exceptional talent for the team
  • Strengthen Medely's engineering culture and processes
  • Plan, organize, and manage appropriate resources and headcount to meet sprints and feature schedule commitments within budget and agreed-upon time frame
  • Identify performance bottlenecks while proposing and implementing effective solutions
  • Collaborate with product, sales, customer support, and other departments to implement new growth initiatives
  • Champion simple, intelligent, and elegant solutions to problems