at 1WorldSync in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
Are you a leader who can effectively guide and build teams to be successful by fostering an environment of trust, collaboration, and high-performance? Do you have a passion for delivering results and learning how new technologies and processes can deliver better software to customers? Good news! 1WorldSync is looking for a Director of Engineering to join our team.
1WorldSync is the industry leader in product content management. With approximately 600 employees across the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and the UK, we're seeking a Director of Engineering to support our growing global team.
Reporting directly to our Chief Technology Officer, the Director of Engineering will be a part of a strategic organization tasked with building products and components aligned to the growth plans of 1WorldSync. The Director of Engineering will own the delivery of new features and on-going effectiveness for core areas of our software platform. In addition to daily hands-on development, this role will manage engineers and work closely with stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.
As Director of Engineering at 1WorldSync, responsibilities include the following:
Collaborate heavily with the product team in leading sprint teams to deliver product enhancements.
Be visible outside of the technology organization and help facilitate cross functional collaboration.
Work directly with customers to partner on evolving out platform and solutions
Identify and solve important technical problems with front-end, QA, product, devops and UX teammates in an agile development environment.
Share ownership and establish expertise on large sections of our codebase while identifying, learning, and applying a variety of technologies and working in the AWS ecosystem.
Promote high quality code both through leading by example and by mentoring engineers via pairing, design review, and extensive participation in code reviews.
Reduce the complexity of our code base, infrastructure, and production operations to maximize the effectiveness of our platform.
Collaborate across teams and help guide the teams through technology and design choices with their software development process.
Develop and promote following architecture best practices and principles
Own and promote the technical vision.
Required Skills and Experience:
7+ years experience with hands-on Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, and/or Ruby development, database modeling and design, and scalable web architectures
3+ years experience with PowerReviews technologies and tools such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, SQL, AWS, CircleCi, Terraform.
3+ years experience managing teams of 5 or more software engineers
Desired Skills and Experience:
Experience leading teams through cloud adoption a plus
Strong software engineering and software architecture skills
Team player with excellent work habits and interpersonal skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Benefits:
Incredible health benefits (FSA and HSA options), with dental and vision coverage.
401(k) plan with employer match.
Paid time off as well as company holidays, volunteer time off, sick time, bereavement leave, and 12 weeks of fully paid parental bonding leave.
Short and long term disability and life insurance.
Additional optional benefits, including a comprehensive legal plan, pre-tax parking and transit accounts, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, identity theft prevention, tuition reimbursement, and pet insurance.
Additional Details:
Our corporate headquarters is located in Chicago, but this role can be remote in any of the following states: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI.
This role requires the candidate to have the authority to work in, and be located in the US.
This position requires up to [x%] travel.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
1WorldSync will provide reasonable accommodations during the application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please contact us at [emailprotected].
1WorldSync is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing employees and applicants with an environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at 1WorldSync are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, veteran or disability status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.