Gusto is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to lead a new product development team for Symmetry Software, aiming to design and deliver innovative products from concept to market.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience – managing both people and tech stacks.
- Strong Experience with web application development, Dev-ops, distributed systems, CI/CD and test automation.
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design, Service Oriented Architecture, and Systems thinking.
- A proven ability to debug and triage critical systems, including team performance.
- Hands-on experience with agile methodologies, and their practical application.
- Proven ability to initiate new projects, ideas, or actions by providing the initial energy, inspiration, or motivation needed to get them started
- Ability to get into the nitty gritty of how a product works and clearly communicate its value.
Responsibilities
- Taking complete functional ownership of your area including vision for both the platform and product in partnership with product managers and stakeholders.
- Ensuring products and services are performant, available 24x7x365, resilient, and stable.
- Supporting technical innovation and lead creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of our engineering standards to ensure that our technology can be sustainably operated.
- Evaluating emerging technologies including SaaS systems for opportunities to improve services, acting as technical consultant for the company to champion practical technical solutions.
- Partnering with engineering leaders across the company to architect and champion well-defined sub-systems and continually refining company-wide platform architecture.
- Developing and deploying strategies to support and build high functioning, motivated teams, ensuring technical competence in the team.
- Aligning teams to focus on new features, and business goals.
Other
- Aligning and prioritizing the organization deliverables based on the company needs, working closely with the leadership across functional departments.
- A proven track record and ability to communicate with cross functional peers, communicating technical concepts to business stakeholders, and communicating business objectives to the technical team.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership on problems and projects and lead them to completion.
- Exceptional verbal and written presentation skills, including ability to prepare materials for audiences at all levels of the organization.
- Ability and passion for helping growing engineering teams and making others better.
