We believe in the power of hiring. Because the potential for people to do something outstanding has everything to do with being in the right role, on the right team, at the right time. That’s where Greenhouse comes in – from recruiting to on-boarding, we make software to help every company be great at hiring.
Greenhouse is hiring a Director of Engineering. Greenhouse's fast growth and focus on continuous improvement means that you'll see something new every week. Our Directors of Engineering are strategic forces, overseeing a domain with multiple teams of product engineers. Alongside their Engineering Manager direct reports they will work on growing the teams in their domains, running planning sessions, and mentoring.
The Director of Engineering role will be responsible for overseeing our Ecosystem domain within the Greenhouse Recruiting product. Our Ecosystem consists of all the data flowing into and out of the platform (e.g. via APIs) which serve our partners, customers and 3rd party system integrators. You will work closely with our customer facing teams to create a world class Ecosystem for Greenhouse Recruiting customers.
Learn more about our engineering culture here!
Who will love this job
- A leader – you recruit and retain extraordinary engineering teams
- A people-person – you are hard-working, humble, and curious
- A doer – you are iterative in your approach to working with fellow leadership and your team
- A problem-solver – you are motivated by strategically and thoughtfully solving challenging technical problems
What you'll do
- Lead a team of 3 Engineering Managers and a domain consisting of 15-20 engineers
- Oversee and deploy a core set of features in our globally utilized products
- Create an organizational dynamic that is inclusive, open-minded, respectful, and effective
- Participate in system design and influence technical strategy conversations across the engineering team
- Collaborate on key initiatives with cross-departmental partners and leadership peers
- Create and implement mission-critical OKRs that push our department forward
You should have
- Experience in building and retaining an inclusive distributed engineering team and culture
- Experience managing and growing other people managers
- Prior experience in developing a complex, multi-tenant web application
- Experience with modern front-end technologies and best practices
- A deep understanding of modern web applications and API design; experience with issues related to scale, security, availability, deployment, and server maintenance
- Experience with development best practices, including continuous integration, automated testing, source control, and code reviews
- An understanding of AWS or other cloud infrastructures
- Your own unique talents! If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, please include a note telling us why you’d be a great fit for this role.
Applicants must be currently eligible to work in Canada.
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Who we are
At Greenhouse, we celebrate having a diverse group of hardworking employees and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. We’ve won numerous awards including Inc. Magazine Best Workplace (2018-2022), Glassdoor #1 Best Place to Work, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, Crain’s Best Places to Work NYC, Fortune’s Great Place to Work (2019 - 2022), and Mogul’s Top 100 Workplaces for Diverse Representation (2022). We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative culture throughout every step of a Greenhouse employee's journey. From day one of our interview process to executive "Ask Me Anything" sessions, we consistently cultivate an inclusive environment.
For all our employees, we offer a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries, stock options, fully paid option(s) for health coverage (medical, dental and vision), disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, mental health resources, financial wellness benefits, and a fully paid parental leave program. For US-based employees, we offer flexible vacation and a 401(k) matching program. For Dublin-based employees, we offer 25 days' vacation and an employer matching pension program.
Our success in making companies great at hiring depends on our ability to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment. To that end, we’re committed to attracting, developing, retaining and promoting a diverse workforce, and infusing DE&I throughout all of our internal practices. By ensuring that every Greenie is able to bring a diversity of talents to our work, we’re increasingly capable of living out our mission and providing real insight from our products to support our customers. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Greenhouse, where we’re building a team to face the world’s increasingly complex and diverse hiring needs.
Want to learn more about our interviewing process? Check out our interviewing at Greenhouse page
**We are a distributed company and do our best work where it works best for us - as individuals and as teams. At this time, all employees are working remotely due to COVID-19.**
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