Employer:                              TaxBit, Inc.
Job Title:                               Senior Director of Engineering
Degree Required:                 Bachelor’s degree or equivalent foreign education
Academic Discipline(s):       Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Experience Required:           5 years of post-degree progressive experience in computer science or computer engineering

 

 

Lead a team of 28 software engineers and 2 software engineering managers; help teams build high quality software using latest software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban; utilize experience in multiple parts of the stack and innovate with new technologies in order to help teams create high quality experiences for our customers and clients; sets priorities and deadlines for tasks assigned to managers and software engineers; meet with department heads, managers, team leads, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems; analyze data to inform software development decisions or activities; help build monitoring and debugging best practices so customer reported issues can be prevented proactively and also resolved in a timely manner; work on buy versus build decision for new software features so stakeholders have all the information they need to make a decision; utilize MySQL to run database queries and data changes; make decisions around the best Amazon Web Services (AWS) features to use to build new software features and products; utilize Docker and Kubernetes to support the containerization strategy for our features and products; utilize DynamoDB and MongoDB to handle billions of transactions from customers; assist with architectural direction for the user interface for products using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; stay abreast with advances in technology; partner with designers and product managers to define the best practices for the tools TaxBit, Inc. is building; participate in software design review to ensure that the platform is scalable for the next 3-5 years; participate in code reviews to maintain code quality; help lead projects from idea to positive execution; and hire and mentor engineering managers and software engineers.