Nav is looking to solve the problem of giving every small business owner the chance to succeed by building and running credit-building card products, bookkeeping solutions, and cash flow tools.
Requirements
- Proven track record of leading high performing engineering teams and driving positive results.
- Engineering skills and fluency necessary to earn the respect of your team and contribute to solving complex technical problems.
- Built solutions using at least some of the team's preferred technologies. (Go, Java, Typescript, gRPC, Postgres.)
- Experience with working in an agile framework and iterating to build sustainable and scalable solutions.
- Experience managing professionals in a remote environment.
- Eager to learn and adapt quickly to change.
- Flexible and respond quickly and positively to shifting demands and opportunities; ability to work under tight deadlines and plan, organize and carry out multiple, detailed tasks.
Responsibilities
- Lead 5-10 engineers building financial products on Nav's Banking team.
- Be in the code with your team members, regularly writing and reviewing it.
- Break big picture goals into achievable milestones and clear, actionable tickets. Drive the execution of that work.
- Ensure the team's work embodies engineering rigor and complies with Nav engineering standards.
- Guide architectural decision-making on the team, and ensure architectural alignment with the rest of Nav engineering.
- Manage through uncertainty and work closely with Product Management to deliver solutions to customer problems.
- Find the gaps in our organization and processes, and help us fill them.
Other
- Create a team environment where all members feel safe to be themselves and share their voices.
- Identify growth opportunities for each of your direct reports, co-create growth plans with them, and help execute those plans.
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders to continuously elevate the engineering department.
- Comfortable operating on both strategic and tactical levels, simultaneously acting as an internal ambassador, educator, analyst, solutions architect, and implementer.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, with a bias towards user-centric innovation.
