Hybrid Director, Full Stack Engineering

at skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm

• Job title: Director, Full Stack Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Angular, Distributed Systems, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Merrimack, United States

About the role

• Director of Software Engineering leading Fixed Income Engineering chapter for Next Gen Trading platform. Fostering engineering excellence and developing talent across teams in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement best practices, standards and guidelines for software development, including code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure consistency and quality across the organization
• Driving a culture of excellence and continuous improvement, including setting high standards for quality, performance and reliability
• Ensuring organization talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for clients and the business
• Supporting and empowering associates, to enable delivery of increased value in their teams, including coaching and mentoring team members to help them grow and develop their skills
• Enabling an agile and streamlined organization by demonstrating agile behaviors
• Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions partnering with product teams
• Measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics

Requirements

• 10+ years of technical hands-on experience in designing and building large scale resilient distributed systems
• Passion for leading, coaching and developing talent in engineering teams in a geographically dispersed agile organization
• Proven experience in leading technical design and estimation, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance controls
• Experience in leading front end engineering teams with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, TypeScript, Node, NPM, Rx JS) preferred
• Experienced in defining and promoting branching strategy, development and testing best practices with standard quality gates in CI/CD pipelines
• Broad knowledge of technology standards and best practices including dev ops practices, design principles, security, reliability, resilience, performance, etc.
• Promoting engineering excellence and continuous learning mindset
• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Experienced in identifying and acquiring talent needs, resource planning, and talent allocation across large organizations

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities