Director of Engineering - Remote

Overview

Recast is looking for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial director of engineering to help us accelerate our engineering and product development practice.

In Short

• Get to know our team of nine highly experienced software engineers – start one-on-ones and build development plans for each of them
• Develop and (start to) implement a medium-term engineering roadmap that accelerates product velocity while reinforcing our core infrastructure
• Help us rapidly grow our software engineering team while still keeping the quality bar high and maintaining a culture of product and engineering excellence in the team
• Own our tech security practice and SOC 2 certification and compliance program
• Working across a range of technologies – from Rails to AWS & k8s infrastructure, to running #rlang in production
• Working with a fully-remote and globally distributed engineering team across a variety of timezones
• Working with a large number of direct reports – we’re a flat organization and we plan to keep it that way
• Familiarity with AWS and/or cloud-first architectures, Kubernetes, and distributed compute generally
• Building products with data science / machine learning / algorithmic components
• Leading our full engineering organization made up of three subteams: app developers, R developers, and infrastructure / platform engineering

Requirements

• Highly motivated and entrepreneurial mindset
• Experience in engineering management
• Ability to develop and implement engineering roadmaps
• Strong understanding of tech security practices
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Ability to work in a remote and distributed team
• Experience with data science and machine learning is a plus
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in tech
• Experience in collaborating across teams

Benefits

• Work wherever you’re happiest; we're fully remote
• Competitive remote salary along with early-stage equity
• Highly skilled coworkers you can learn from and who are eager to learn from you
• An async-first culture with a focus on documentation over standing meetings
• Autonomy and support to do your best work in your own time
• Your local holidays plus unmetered PTO (minimum 2 weeks mandatory PTO!)