Associate Director

Responsibilities:

Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.

Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.

Team management: You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping individuals grow in their careers, having constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.

Requirements:

Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility.

Ability to architect, design and code yourself.

Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications.

Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database).

Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.

Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality.

Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.

You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer science.

Total of 9+ years of experience building cutting-edge products.

Deep experience in building very large-scale applications and 2 + years of experience in team management.

Strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms.