Director, Product Engineering
ProPublica
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSBigQueryCloudPHPPython
About the role
- Directly manage and mentor a team of software engineers, including leading the performance management process and providing regular feedback.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, kind engineering culture that promotes learning, innovation and technical excellence.
- Collaborate with the senior director of technology on major technical infrastructure decisions, security implementations and strategic engineering planning.
- Contribute to technology strategy discussions and provide engineering perspective on product decisions.
- Establish and maintain engineering standards, best practices and coding guidelines across all product development, ensuring scalability, maintainability and security.
- Directly commit code where necessary alongside software engineers, leading by example with best practices and approaches.
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, including code review practices, testing strategies and deployment pipelines.
- Manage technical debt and refactoring initiatives to maintain code quality and system health.
- Implement and maintain development workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, testing automation and deployment strategies.
- Ensure engineering work uses open standards where appropriate, meets accessibility requirements and is performant.
Requirements
- Seven-plus years of software engineering experience with at least three years in engineering management.
- Demonstrated success managing and mentoring engineering teams of three to eight people in lean, scrappy environments.
- Strong background in the modern web development stack, including front-end frameworks like SvelteKit, back-end systems written in Python and PHP, and AWS/Google Cloud (particularly data pipelines, with services like Dagster and BigQuery).
- Deep understanding and ability to apply core web principles including open standards, performance optimization and accessibility.
- Strong knowledge and ability to apply data security and privacy best practices.
- Experience with agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.
- Proven track record of running and scaling effective, sustainable teams in mission-driven organizations.
- Experience with hiring, performance management and career development for technical staff.
- Experience building consumer-facing digital products, preferably in media, journalism or mission-driven organizations.
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Hard skills
software engineeringengineering managementfront-end frameworksSvelteKitPythonPHPAWSGoogle Clouddata pipelinesDagster
Soft skills
mentoringcollaborationleadershipperformance managementcontinuous improvementcommunicationteam managementinnovationtechnical excellenceinclusivity