Director of Engineering (Remote)
Director of Engineering
Remote
Overview
ExecThread is a profitable and cash-flow positive VC-backed start-up that brings transparency to the executive recruitment market.
With over 125,000 high-caliber members and growing quickly, ExecThread is a community-driven platform that evens the playing field by providing professionals with access to the hidden job market. By doing so, ExecThread members have access to thousands of confidential senior-level job opportunities and Board of Director roles that would normally only be accessible via retained executive recruiters.
With a robust & scalable platform already in-place, there’s plenty of opportunity ahead, and we’re looking to partner with an aspiring engineering leader to help us take the company to the next level and beyond.
About the Role
The Director of Engineering will be responsible for scaling our technology and data infrastructure.
Reporting directly to the CEO, the Director of Engineering will be responsible for architecting, developing and deploying scalable applications using MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, React, Node and AWS.
This person will also implement and manage DevOps in a multi-container environment for a platform that has >115,000 active & engaged members, and is profitably growing by +1000 new members every day.
You will also be responsible for documenting procedures & processes used during deployment cycles, and manage a small team of talented developers, while also contributing to ongoing recruiting efforts.
This is a great opportunity to join a profitable & fast-growing tech startup, and have an immediate impact.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of software architecture and development experience
- Prior managerial experience (preferred, but not required)
- Whether this is a lateral move, or the next step-up in your career, we care most about your ability to do the job, your energy & excitement level, and your ability to help us scale.
- Experience with maintaining & scaling AWS cloud infrastructure
- Experience writing code to automate monitoring (in ME(A/R)N stack) and managing deployments
- Strong knowledge of microservices & distributed application architecture such as containers / Docker; and ability to automate CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Node.js and Express
- Experience with setting up & maintaining APIs
- Hands-on experience working with Git
- Interest in mentoring other engineers
- Prior start-up experience is a plus
Compensation
- Base salary + equity
Last edited: November 10, 2021