Senior Director, Engineering
Octane
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $210,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Demonstrate our company's cultural values by engaging in diversity of people and ideas, seeking the truth and test assumptions, and ruthlessly prioritizing.
- Own business outcomes through a balance of speed, creativity, and relentless high bar for quality.
- Act as the last line of defense for quality control, best practices and effective design strategies.
- Foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Play an active role in hiring and developing our engineering team.
- Bring both technical acuity and leadership skills to build a high-performing team.
- Grow your engineers and keep them motivated, empowered, and happy through effective continuous career development conversations.
- Partnering with stakeholders to help your team understand their mission and how they fit in with the overall business goals; define and execute your team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap.
- Prioritize leadership and team development, while remaining ready to jump into technical work to support critical initiatives.
Requirements
- 15+ years experience in software engineering, at least 8 of them in a lead or manager capacity.
- Managed teams of 5 direct reports or more in remote and/or hybrid environments.
- Growth mindset.
- Passionate about building data related products and understand good systems design.
- Experienced interacting with senior management; ability to demonstrate critical thinking and thought leadership.
- Proven track record of effectively developing direct reports through continual feedback, goal-setting, and growing them through the ranks of an engineering organization.
- Advanced understanding of modern software development practices and methodologies, and the ability to roll up your sleeves and contribute when necessary.
- Experience directly working on or managing a team working on production systems and high-volume applications.
- Demonstrated ability to attract, identify, and mentor top engineering talent.
Benefits
- Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Generous Parental Leave
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy - Time Off When You Need It
- Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
- Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Short Term / Long Term Disability
- Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc
- Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit
- Powersports Safety Benefit
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringsystems designmodern software development practiceshigh-volume applicationsproduction systems
Soft skills
leadershipteam developmentcritical thinkingthought leadershipgrowth mindseteffective communicationmentoringmotivating teams