Engineering Director

About the role:

The Engineering Director will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Italy. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Duties:

• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Who you are:

• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Bonus points:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ

Compensation and benefits:

Rate: €71,000 - €88,000/year

• Private health insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Stock options
• Remote work allowance
• Training budget
• Flexible start and finish times

Who we are:

The platform hosts certification programs for several professional associations.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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