Head of Engineering

More than 740 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

Overview:

We are adding a Head of Engineering to our Identity team. 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 use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• 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
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

Minimum qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Contributions to open source projects
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

Pay range: $275,000 - $325,000 a year. Final offer will depend on experience.

Pay and benefits:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid sick leave
• Vision insurance
• Home office stipend

Groveford is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Within 30 days.

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