Head of Engineering

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

The role:

Looking for a Head of Engineering who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Our Identity team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Duties:

Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items. Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk. Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review. Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates. Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

Minimum qualifications:

8+ years of professional software development experience. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design. Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI. Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure. BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

Prior work at an early-stage startup. Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ. Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Rate: $265,000 - $360,000/year

Benefits:

Health insurance. 401(k) with 4% match. Paid holidays.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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