Director of Engineering

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Los Angeles and several other countries. We started in 2007 and have grown to about 800 people. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

Job summary

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. The Director of Engineering will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Remote, open to candidates across the US. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

Expected salary range: $265,000 - $360,000 per year, plus bonus eligibility.

Perks and benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee discount.
• Profit sharing.
• Referral program.

Poplarcraft Commerce is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Poplarcraft Commerce.