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Engineering Director Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Engineering Director to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Management of outsourced service partners;
- Remote management of sub contractors across remote territories;
- Ensuring statutory compliance;
- Implementing new technology’s and procedures;
- Deliver products with consistently high quality and reliability, in a timely and predictable manner;
- Design, develop, and maintain new features for various web applications from time to time;
- Engage with customers and the head of product to ensure that product delivery obsessively aligns with customer value creation;
- Drive rigorous product releases across multiple, complex software products;
- Help steer company-wide technology decisions and articulate these decisions to key product and business stakeholders;
- Tracking down, isolating, and fixing system bugs from time to time;
- Manage multiple software development teams (geographically dispersed) where the overall business opportunity or strategy may not yet be defined;
- Establishing baseline measures for quality, performance, scale and operational efficacy;
- Architect and collaboratively develop with a team of engineers and technology infrastructure that supports unique user identity and privacy dynamics;
- Partner with commercial and product stakeholders to build and balance backlogs and roadmaps for the company Voice and Video products;
- To advocate, own and drive predictability through Operational Excellence and transparency through data and KPIs.
Requirements:
- Solid theoretical understanding of public key cryptography, one-way hash functions, information entropy;
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or relevant experience;
- Ability to conceptualize and design enterprise-grade APIs using asynchronous and reactive paradigms;
- Experience building iOS, Android, and web experiences simultaneously;
- Experience with encryption both at rest and for communication protocol (TLS, PGP) preferred;
- Experience with both public internet and intranet Authentication and Authorization Models using JWT, OAuth and OpenId an asset;
- Experience with key distribution issues a plus;
- Ability to prioritize business needs;
- 5-7 years experience in hiring, managing, and growing a team of at least 15 engineers;
- Project experience with highly available and strongly consistent databases: traditional or key-value stores, a plus;
- Familiarity with security models of public clouds;
- B.S. in computer science, statistics, mathematics or similar technical degree;
- An extremely strong sense of urgency;
- 3+ years of experience in leading and managing high-performing engineering teams;
- Project experience with non blocking I/O an asset.