HOAi is a fast-growing startup revolutionizing the community association management industry by streamlining labor-heavy processes with AI workforce platform and machine learning technology to eliminate inefficiencies and drive scalability.
Requirements
- Experience leveraging artificial intelligence for software development and in product functionality
- Experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable systems that support rapid user and system growth
- Inspired by code and the ability to assist and solve problems as they arise
Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact initiatives that chart the course for our platform evolution
- Drive strategic technical initiatives based on customer feedback and needs of the business to ensure the continued scalability, reliability, and marketability of HOAi’s platform
- Facilitate stand-ups and retrospectives, as needed, documenting feedback and implementing actionable changes
- Lead technical refinement sessions to ensure clarity and alignment on project goals and work with engineers to break down projects into manageable, deliverable tasks
- Review backlog items to ensure they meet the Definition of Ready prior to sprint planning and ensure Definition of Done is being met
- Provide constructive feedback during code reviews, architecture discussions, and other technical documents to support informed decision making
- Set strategic goals and oversee the deployment of large-scale initiatives, fostering a data-driven culture to enhance efficiency, scalability, stability, and security
Other
- Managing a team of 8-10 software engineers within a scrum framework.
- Understand all teams’ roadmaps, how products intersect and bring velocity to product development.
- Working closely with product management and the leadership team, you will be a critical component to accelerating the innovation HOAi is bringing to customers with taste and speed.
- Leverage your technical expertise and passion for customer experience to solve critical business impacting problems and set direction and goals for the engineering organization.
- The Director of Engineering will be a key collaborator of business strategy as a member of the product and development team.
- Influence best Engineering practices through hands-on leadership and help scale our next phase of rapid growth.
- Implementing and executing hiring enabling HOAi technical teams to scale, leading the development programs and initiatives and that will enable the company’s service to scale to more customers, and providing technical and strategic leadership to drive growth.
- Develop a team of diverse engineers to deliver world-class AI applications that provide frontier solutions that excite and delight customers.
- Focus on talent, process, accountability, and scalability that fuels product velocity and innovation
- Foster a culture of AI enablement and adoption within the engineering organization
- Set objectives for continuous improvement for both products and people, driving the upward trajectory of talent within the team to add value to the business
- Through collaboration, influence a joint roadmap including prioritization & resource allocation by managing priorities & decisions based on factors such as technical capabilities, customer/partner/market requests, build-vs-buy-vs-partner, and competitive landscape
- Build strong relations between the technology team and external stakeholders and customers to deliver market driven services
- Drive quality initiatives and strategies to ensure our services exceed the expectations of customers by partnering with Customer Experience team to understand support challenges and drive product improvements to reduce support load
- Shape and nurture a culture of execution, velocity, innovation, excellence, ingenuity, and ownership as HOAi continues to scale
- Monitor test metrics, ensuring code coverage and success rates meet established standards
- Conduct one-on-one meetings with direct reports to support their career growth and development objectives
- Mentor and guide software engineering professionals, helping them navigate career progression and professional development
- Drive or contribute to significant process and workflow improvements within the team and the broader development organization
- Assist in creating technical roadmaps that prioritize short-term goals while aligning with overall strategic objectives, anticipating risks, and iterating towards targets
- Collaborate with product and design teams to prepare and plan future initiatives
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering and product technologies
- 3+ years in a managerial position leading / managing software engineering teams
- Proven experience working in a rapidly evolving growth environment, working on multiple products concurrently
- Strong leadership skills, capable of providing real-time coaching/creating actionable development plans and promoting a culture that keeps people motivated and happy
- Ability to own and manage multiple concurrent projects, including presenting and negotiating with stakeholders on the interdependencies and possibilities of what can realistically be delivered
- Excellent stakeholder management, prioritization skills, and agile delivery through chaos and fast-paced environments
- Experience working with product managers to ensure planning and prioritization of key projects, inspiring the engineering team to achieve challenging and high-performance goals and timelines for work
- B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
