Director of Engineering

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Tucson since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Founded in 2002, we now have 930 employees.

Job summary:

We're looking for a Director of Engineering to join our team. This is a remote role. Our Core Services team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote within the US. The team meets in Tucson once a quarter, travel covered. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• 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.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

What you need:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

Preferred:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Starting pay: $255,000-$315,000 a year, depending on experience and certifications.

What we offer:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid sick leave.
• Profit sharing.
• Health insurance.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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