Director of Engineering – Fleet Management Delivery Platform
| Company | Serve Robotics |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Salary | $210000 – $250000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in software development including leading small teams of Sr. and/or Staff Software Engineers.
- Experience growing and managing small and technically advanced engineering teams, delivering from early concepts to production quality releases.
- Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable leading by example and spending time coding, brainstorming and designing solutions with your team, and reviewing code and specifications.
- 4+ years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems.
- Solid grasp of concurrency, fault tolerance, and event-driven architectures.
Responsibilities
- Identify the hiring needs, run the hiring process for your team, champion the onboarding process for new team members, and be the primary person responsible for their professional growth and success.
- Mentor a small team of Software Engineers, establish best practices, and lead by example through hands-on coding and code reviews.
- Own the Fleet Management Delivery Platform, designing, owning and ensuring the platform meets SLAs and reliability targets, and evolves to meet new business requirements.
- Partner with product managers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives.
- Champion code quality, testing strategies, and continuous integration/deployment. Proactively seek opportunities to streamline workflows and enhance team productivity.
- Experience staying current with emerging technologies and industry best practices, integrating relevant tools and techniques to keep our platforms cutting-edge.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong track record in upleveling software engineers (and first-time managers) on your team in both their technical and leadership strengths.
- Experience working with large external partners, vendors and customers, representing both the engineering teams and the business.
- Experience running cross-functional teams with multiple domains of expertise and, possibly, developing multiple product streams in parallel.
- Ability to partner with Product Management and Design from the early concept stage, building POCs and technical breakthroughs to inform and accelerate product strategy.