Director, Engineering
Prelay United States
Date Posted: 17 Feb, 2023
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: $200000 — $220000 yearly
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 6+ years
Remote Work: No
Stock Options: No
Vacancies: 1 available
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join our early team. This is a critical time for us as a company, where we will be making the highest impact product decisions and laying the foundation for our team culture.
As the Director of Engineering, you will be a key driver in our company's success and will lead the development of cutting-edge products. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the delivery of high-quality product development, setting technical strategy, and driving innovation. Additionally, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, building and scaling the engineering team, and staying up-to-date with the latest B2B technology trends. If you have a passion for software engineering and a proven track record of delivering results, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a lasting impact on a rapidly growing company.
You are someone who gets excited by:
- Ambiguity and autonomy
- Challenging the status quo
- Creating category defining products
- Building new things from scratch
- Creating structure out of no structure
- Rolling up sleeves to get things done
- Building a high-performing team
In this role, you will:
- Make key product decisions in collaboration with CEO (Head of Product) to make forward-looking technical decisions based on current business needs
- Have the ability to see the forest from the trees - balance pragmatic business needs with technical tradeoffs
- Partner with our CEO, PM and Designer to define key upcoming projects for execution
- Jump into the code (challenging problems) across the team to ensure support on complex scenarios and high-quality output
- Own engineering roadmap and execution
- Create a strong engineering culture and practice
- Put great engineering processes and tooling in place (e.g. code reviews, testing, deployment process, development environments, etc.)
- Work closely with the product team to understand product priorities and roadmap
- Build a performance management framework for a high-performance team, driving personal growth & business goals forward
What You Will Bring:
- Minimum of 5+ years of software development experience at high-growth startups
- Minimum of 3+ years leading and/or managing engineering teams
- Ideally, staff-level engineering & architecture experience, especially with our stack (Node, Typescript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, GCP)
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
- Built complex interaction-heavy products and features
What do we offer:
- Competitive Salary and meaningful equity
- Ability to work on a hybrid schedule, 3 days remote and 2 days in office at our SF location in the heart of the financial district.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage and partial company-paid coverage for dependents
- 401k program
- Flexible PTO
- Holidays
- Sick days
- Parental Leave
- Weekly team lunches
- Company events (monthly social events)
The salary range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
A reasonable estimate of the current base salary range for this position is $200,000-$220,000.
About Prelay
Team Selling Platform
Company Size: 11 - 50 People
Year Founded: 2019
Country: United States
Company Status: Actively Hiring
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