Director, Engineering (Head)

(Full Time) Director, Engineering (Head) at Prelay (United States)

Director, Engineering (Head)

Prelay United States

Date Posted: 28 Mar, 2023

Work Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary Offered: $200,000 — $220,000 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