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Director of Engineering
Ruby

Director of Engineering

San Diego
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Mid
Employment Type
B2B
Operating mode
Remote

Tech stack

    Team Management

    advanced

    Team Leadership

    advanced

    Ruby on Rails

    regular

    SQL

    regular

    JavaScript

    regular

    React

    regular

Job description

Online interview

Housecall Pro Director of Engineering

Housecall Pro is the #1 rated app for home service companies in the United States. The company is based in San Diego, California, USA. However, we have a number of engineering teams in Poland that we’re looking to expand.

As an Engineering Director at Housecall Pro you’ll help build and lead our world-class team of engineers and engineering leaders. You’ll work hands-on with the engineering team to deliver incredible products and experiences to our customers. . Interfacing with Product Managers and Product Designers to help lead our Product Engineering teams, you'll be responsible for setting the technical direction within our organization. Your teams will iterate through fast-paced use cases, design, develop, and test features and push those features to production on a daily basis. You will  help the teams to continually improve those processes.

Our Engineering team is extraordinary. We’re a hardworking and focused team driven to deliver industry-leading apps to our service professional customers. Our success is their success. Our team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused team members are the "engine room" of Housecall Pro, helping our customers operate and to grow their businesses.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Build out Engineering best practices and processes,
  • Hire, grow and develop the Engineering team and culture,
  • Inspire and mentor a several teams of talented Engineers and first line Engineering managers and technical leads,
  • Drive the Engineering vision, help own the Engineering roadmap and lead projects, from requirements gathering to delivery,
  • Collaborate with product managers, business operations, engineers, engineering leaders, and business partners,
  • Collaborate with Product Peers to keep engineering and product aligned,
  • Planning, monitoring, and steering strategic development topics, taking part in strategic roadmap planning, and improving development processes.

This offer is for you, if you:

  • 3+ Experience building and leading multiple teams of outstanding Engineers,
  • 7+ years of engineering experience,
  • Expertise with Ruby on Rails, React, iOS and Android, software architecture and distributed systems,
  • Excellent technical aptitude as well as superior project and people management skills,
  • Ability to work and scale within a fast-growing and agile company and to think and plan strategically,
  • Experience in mentoring and coaching team members and other leaders,
  • Proven track record of building a culture that encourages autonomy, innovation, teamwork, and productivity,
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for working with different audiences.
  • Fluent in Polish and English

You get extra points for:

  • Understanding importance of loosely coupled code and isolated domains within a monolithic application
  • Working experience with DDD

What we offer:

  • You decide where you are working from - we’re fully remote
  • Our organization in Poland is autonomous. You’ll work on Central European time.
  • We’re hiring Senior Engineers, not robots. We want to empower you to do great work. That includes giving you strong autonomy and encouraging a desire to be involved in architectural decision-making.
  • Salary between $10,000 USD and $13,000 USD per month dependent on experience
  • Newest MacBook Pro
  • Paid bank holidays
  • Paid vacation