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Director of Engineering, Core Systems
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2U

Director of Engineering, Core Systems

2U
New York
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Office

Tech stack

    Amazon AWS
    regular
    Tornado
    regular
    Phoenix
    regular
    Hapi.js
    regular
    Databases
    regular
    Kubernetes
    regular
    Mesos
    regular

Job description

What We're Looking For:
Engineering at 2U is fast paced, innovative, and full of people passionate about delivering on the promise of higher education via technology. We’re growing rapidly and are seeking collaborative and results-driven individuals to join us. In return, we can offer you a fun learning environment where your skills, experience and creativity will make a material impact on the company’s success and its overall mission. Your tenure at 2U will be a highlight of your career.

We strive for our teams to be cross-functional, self-organizing and autonomous. You will be working directly with product managers, business analysts, and your peers in a highly collaborative manner.

About The Role
We are looking for a thoughtful, collaborative and results-driven engineering leader with experience running teams of 5 to 10 engineers in an agile environment. You are a maker at heart and have experience in finding a balance between individual technical contribution and achieving results via your team. You are comfortable using and providing guidance in  techniques like test driven development (TDD), pair programming and retrospectives.

Above all, you care about delivering quality software in a sustainable and timely manner. You have experience in, and passion for, building and running effective teams that deliver and thrive.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:
You are a competent maker, able to:
  • Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, reviewing and deploying code)
  • Provide technical guidance and feedback to your team members. 
  • Lead technical design of applications and participate in larger system design efforts
  • Advocate for end user needs in software you are building

You are a competent manager, able to own and direct your team in:
  • Planning and execution of short and medium term projects 
  • Hiring, engaging and developing for members of your team. Occasionally help with hiring on adjacent ones
  • Assessing, reporting, and improving systems and processes in your charge
  • Collaborating effectively with Product team (product managers, business analysts, and UX designers) to define and refine requirements

You have experience in (or clear potential for understanding) the higher education ecosystem, 2U’s 3 year strategy and major goals, and can align and execute your team’s deliverables accordingly.

This position reports to the Vice President, Engineering and is based in our NYC office.

Other Attributes That Will Help You in This Role:
The Core Systems team builds and maintains products that meet the needs of common patterns that underlie 2U's user-facing platform with the goal of sustainability, reliability, and reducing total cost of ownership. Many of the team's direct customers are other product managers and engineers at 2U, so transparency and balancing needs among many constituencies are of utmost importance.

We are looking for experience with the following:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Docker container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Mesos
  • Web frameworks like Tornado (Python), Phoenix (Elixir), or Hapi.js (Node.js)
  • Databases and key value stores like MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis
  • Distributed streaming platforms like Kafka or AWS Kinesis
  • Monitoring and alerting tools like Grafana and Sensu