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    Engineering Director, Travel - Austin, United States - Livesuper

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    About
    We started


    to help maximize livesboth the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer.

    For our employees, our promise is that is more than just a job; its an opportunity to unlock ones potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.

    We are more than a

    fast-paced, high-growth tech company ; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it

    through the people, the work, and the programs

    that fuel who we are.
    About this role

    As Engineering Director for our Travel vertical you will be accountable for the technical strategy, development, and engineering people leadership for our core business, processing over $1MM per day in sales.

    You will report into our Head of Engineering, oversee three Engineering Managers and two Staff level eng (overall org size of 23).

    You will collaborate with a Group Product Manager and General Manager as a triad to propel the travel business.

    You will have the opportunity to have significant operating range, contributing to technical strategy, organizational strategy, tactical project oversight, getting your hands dirty in the code, and contributing to cross-vertical initiatives such as establishing best practices, guilds, and product development lifecycle improvements for full-stack development.

    Our stack is React on the frontend, and a combination of Python and Node microservices on the backend. Other technologies youll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake.
    Responsibilities

    Oversee the technical strategy and tactical delivery of ambitious projects to propel our Travel business
    Oversee three engineering managers and two staff level eng, providing coaching, helping resolve technical, people, and process challenges, and completing performance evaluation
    Be a key contributor to quarterly OKR planning in partnership with the product team, ensuring a healthy contribution of initiatives from engineers, rigorous prioritization, and capacity planning
    Ensure appropriate distribution of initiatives across teams and have well-defined collaboration interfaces between travel eng teams and eng teams in other verticals
    Key contributor to engineering architecture discussions and designs
    Work with travel engineering teams to continually improve our product development lifecycle
    Oversee travel engineering hiring and organizational structure
    Ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably
    Contribute to cross-vertical initiatives such as establishing best practices, guilds, and product development lifecycle improvements
    Get your hands dirty in the code or code reviews when appropriate
    About You

    Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats and continuous learning, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
    Strong owner that has significant operating range, including an ability to get hands dirty in the code
    Positive and enthusiastic person who enjoys decoding problems, not just identifying them
    Empathetic people leader that provides well-defined growth opportunities for reports, and builds a strong culture
    Strategic thinker who looks forward to working closely with business and product stakeholders
    Strong communicator
    Interested in working with our stack - React on the frontend, Python/Node on the backend, AWS infrastructure
    Data-driven and dives deep into problems
    Interested in a role with: 5-10% IC, 30-35% tech leadership, 20% collaboration / stakeholder management, 5-10% Hiring, 30% team / people management
    Preferred Experience

    Demonstrated excellence leading a team of teams with a focus on full-stack product development
    Have grown a team
    Strong track record of technical delivery of major features/products, and balancing delivery and quality
    Strong knowledge of modern web technologies / tools / microservices
    Strong depth with at least one of backend / frontend web development, and at least intermediate depth in the other
    Comfortable with at least one of JS or Python
    Worked with services at scale
    Experience in a startup or scaleup environment
    Experience with strategic initiatives such as OKR planning and organizational design
    Bonus Points

    Working experience across a breadth of our existing infrastructure, languages and tools (python, node, react, postgres, redis, docker, aws, etc)
    Stepped into an existing org as a leader before
    $160,000 - $265,000 a year

    We Believe in Equal Opportunity
    We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

    We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

    Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.

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