Director of Software Engineering
Bellevue, WA

Job Description

Position Summary

We're looking for a talented Director of Engineering who is interested in building our eCommerce platform that provides for our existing and future businesses. As a Director of Engineering, you will work cross functionally with the product team, data analysis and reporting team, and internal and external partner teams. You will help architect solutions to problems, and lead the development effort.

Role and Responsibilities

* Gain understanding of our eCommerce platform micro services and ability to come up with solutions spanning across micro services.
* Work end to end on micro-services and SPAs built on cutting edge technologies like Node.js, Golang and React.
* Work closely with talented Software Engineers to solve difficult problems aimed at ensuring a seamless Customer experience.
* Manage interactions with internal and external partner teams including alignment with Global teams.
* Mentor and groom Software Engineers and help them to produce great code.
* Share technical knowledge and build best practices across teams.
* Be the SME on one or more technologies in our organization.
* Setting up monitoring dashboards, alerts and other technical operations related items for the micro services you own.
* Setting up relevant SLAs with operations and delivering on them.
* Lead the team in providing support for issues found in Production, and to come up with creative short term and long term solutions.

You will be expected to have:

* An expert knowledge of Software Engineering best practices, Software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
* Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project as a team.
* Good understanding of front-end development frameworks.
* Knowledge of AEM or related content management system.
* Experience in communicating with other technical teams like Test, Product and Management to collect requirements, review test cases and translate the product requirements to technical requirements.
* Ability to come up with the high level design based on the requirements, document it and explain it to the junior members of the team.
* Own the budget operations on resource and infrastructure spends and ensure we stay within the budget.

Skills and Qualifications:

* Bachelors / Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field in a reputed institution
* Minimum 15 years professional experience in software development
* Proficient in web development (Backend/Frontend/Both)
* Proficient in web technologies like:
* Java
* Node.js and frameworks like Express or Hapi
* Angular or React
* Adobe Experience Manager
* SQL like Postgres
* NoSQL like MongoDB or RethinkDB
* Message queues like RabbitMQ
* Caching frameworks like Redis


* Experience in mentoring and leading teams
* Strong analytical and programming skills
* Excellent problem solving skills
* Good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
* Good understanding of Object oriented programming concepts
* Good understanding of web technologies
* Quick learner with passion to learn and adapt to new technologies
* Excellent verbal and written communications skills and being a team player
* Attention to details and striving for perfection
* Working in Agile environment

Skills and Qualifications

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