Director, Software Engineering

About the position:

As a Software Engineering Director at Globalization Partners you will build and lead teams of strong engineers providing technical and leadership guidance to build G-P Platform in collaboration with Product, Architecture and other functional teams.

What you can expect to do:

• Build and grow the team by attracting and hiring strong talented leaders and engineers who continue to raise talent standards in G-P. 
• Provide leadership mentoring and coaching to your team leads where each of them can grow both technically and personally.
• Provide technical leadership to the team where you drive and participate in discovery, solutioning and design exercises.
• Work with the Product, Architects, Engineering leadership to define current and long term vision of the G-P Platform, influence the roadmap, engineering culture and drive engineering and operations efficiencies.  
• Review and Drive the detailed planning and execution of roadmap plans to meet business objectives
• Help innovate and inculcate best development practices ranging from developer efficiency, testing strategies, design practices, security, etc
• Champion G-P Culture and our mission.

What we are looking for: 

• • Solid software engineering background, with 15+ years of experience developing enterprise-scale web/cloud-based commercial software products.
  • 3+ experience in managing a team of leaders and driving changes though leaders.
  • 8+ years of experience leading complex software development projects through all phases of the software development life cycle using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Strong experience with either back-end and front-end technologies – Typescript, Node.js, Java, React. iOS, Android,
  • Strong knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies. Experience with AWS and Serverless is a plus.
  • Experience in a startup or high-growth environment is highly desirable.
  • Experience in working with globally distributed teams.