About the Role
Title: Director, Software Engineering
Location: United States
Type: Full-time
Workplace: remote
Category: Engineering Leadership
Job Description:
The Director of Software Engineering at FloQast will oversee multiple software engineering teams tasked with designing and implementing features and functionalities to scale and enhance our B2B SaaS products and platforms. Beyond technical expertise, we seek a visionary leader adept at fostering cross-functional collaboration across all facets of the organization to deliver value to our customers. This pivotal role demands a seasoned product engineering executive with a comprehensive understanding of software product development. The successful candidate will adeptly navigate the intersection of people management, leadership, product development, and technical expertise. Moreover, they will play a critical role in team expansion by spearheading recruitment efforts, mentoring current staff, and cultivating a culture of innovation within the engineering department. Collaboration is paramount, as the Director of Software Engineering will work closely with internal teams, directors, managers, and senior leadership to champion an ethos of engineering excellence.
Visa sponsorship is not available at this time
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to develop and ship new and existing products to the delight of our customers
- Work cross-functionally with all departments (product, sales, marketing, customer success, HR, recruiting, finance, etc.) to help lead the product-to-customer journey
- Lead, manage, mentor, and develop teams of managers, software engineers, and quality engineers to grow your team members’ career paths
- Recruit, hire, and retain software engineering staff by participating in recruiting and interview efforts
- Work with other engineering leaders to continuously invest in and improve the engineering department processes, practices, and culture
- Advocate for software product quality and delivery by promoting automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps, and lean software development practices
- Cultivate an engineering culture of innovative, egoless, high-trust problem-solving
What You’ll Bring
- 8+ years of total software engineering management experience (manager, senior manager, and/or director levels)
- 3+ years of Director-level experience managing a team of engineering managers
- 5+ years of experience as an individual contributor as a software engineer
- 10+ years working on teams using Agile methodologies and an iterative process (Scrum, Kanban, XP) to deliver software
- Strong sense of product-mindedness when it comes to engineering with experience working on new and existing products from idea to customer value delivery
- Experience working on B2B SaaS products (preferably FinTech)
- Experience leading and growing an Engineering department the size of 50+ personnel
- Experience managing and coaching engineers’ and managers’ performance through review processes and providing guidance and feedback to help team members grow professionally
- Experience managing managers of software engineering teams
- Experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring personnel in software engineering and management roles on your teams
- Experience leading and managing teams that are geographically distributed and working remotely
- Positive and enthusiastic team player with strong interpersonal skills and collaborative orientation
- Proven track record of driving significant revenue growth through the development and scaling of enterprise-grade software solutions
- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) to align engineering initiatives with enterprise customer needs and revenue targets
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience in some or all of our stack, which is MongoDB, Express, React, and Node (MERN)
- Experience with AWS technologies and cloud infrastructures
- You care about things like product delivery, software quality, TDD, DevOps & CI/CD, Agile, Lean Software Engineering, Continuous Improvement, fostering a learning culture, among others