Director of Engineering (Remote)

Larchwater employs 4,800 people across engineering hubs in Huntsville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Job summary:

Larchwater is hiring a Director of Engineering (Remote) to work remotely from the US. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Job duties:

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed

What you need:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Contributions to open source projects

The salary range for this role is $245,000 - $330,000 annually. This range reflects base salary only.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid parental leave
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Stock options

Larchwater provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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