Director of Engineering- Front End

You’re looking to expand your skills and level of responsibility as a Front-end Engineering Leader. You care deeply about both your work and your team. You like creating products that have great usability, interaction, and design; in short, products you feel proud of to have contributed to. You know how to write code that makes it stronger, more robust, and is well- documented for the benefit of your team—or your future self. You might already be familiar with the D3 visualization library, or have experience with SVG, or are eager to learn more.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We work with our back-end and data science teams to deliver complicated visualizations of large amounts of data, and with our design team to provide intuitive, elegant and playful interactions and experiences for our users. We are a uniquely positioned data science and human insights company intent on disrupting the way big data is used for predictive analytics. Funded by top tier Silicon Valley venture firms like Redpoint Ventures & Andreessen Horowitz, we are already positively impacting the lives of millions of people around the globe. Our challenges are exciting and your impact is boundless.

We invite you to make your mark in building our suite of web applications that allow our clients to gain insights into their data. We provide a supportive environment that fosters collaboration between teams and team members, where learning and professional growth is considered a key part of your success, and of ours.

WHAT A GREAT CANDIDATE LOOKS LIKE

  • Someone who is closer to the hands on technologist who has direct reports (up to 5 people) as opposed to a pure manager.
  • Strong agile software development, run sprints properly, delegation of tasks, diving up technical exposure.
  • Technically respected by the most senior members of the team
  • Up to 50% Coding and or reviewing code-contributing to velocity to the front end team. taking on user stories and solving those problems.
  • Driving technical career management, product management, scrum master for team + focus on recruiting
  • Compatibility- impeccable communication, strong EQ. Ability to read team members and other teams, firm but not arrogant.
  • Minimum experience/skills: Professional software engineer for at least 5 years’ with a focus on the front end. Responsible for leading direct reports at least 2 years.





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