Director, Engineering, Core Product - San Francisco, United States - Affinity

Description

13+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations
8+ years in an engineering leadership role, overseeing teams of 10 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads
Experience developing, coaching and managing engineers and Engineering Managers
Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while being willing to challenge them
Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates
Passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally leveraging practices such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow
Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy
Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platforms overall performance and reliability
You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams
Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives
Have taken over an existing organization, leading through engineering managers or team leads, in the past
Experience working with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL
Experience working with CRM-type applications that deal with problems like entity resolution and designing data models to store lots of attributes across many entities
Experience building data-intensive applications
Responsibilities

As Director of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the charge in scaling our engineering team, which is at the core of our innovative CRM product and relationship intelligence platform.

Your strategic vision will guide iterative project delivery, harmonizing product leadership collaboration with technological excellence
You'll be instrumental in directing our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications
Partner with product and design leaders to shape and implement a clear vision for our product's future
Lead engineering execution and delivery, ensuring the creation of quality software and a delightful user experience for our global users through continuous, iterative development practices
Grow, evolve, and scale your organization by shaping the team's composition, specifying hiring needs, and sourcing and onboarding engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams
Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members
Design key processes for your organization and the broader engineering team, strategically engaging in project details to boost overall team performance
Craft a technical strategy and roadmap that is deeply aligned with Affinitys business and product needs, from building an industry-leading relationship graph to delivering blazing-fast performance across our suite of applications and APIs
Manage technical debt thoughtfully, preserving our codebase's integrity amid rapid growth
Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions that are aligned with business context as well as product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies
Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days
We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program after all, one of our core values is that were #obsessedwithlearning
We support our employees overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment
Virtual team building and socials
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $170,600 to $288,000 USD
Qualifications
13+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations
8+ years in an engineering leadership role, overseeing teams of 10 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads
Experience developing, coaching and managing engineers and Engineering Managers
Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while being willing to challenge them
Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates
Passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally leveraging practices such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow
Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy
Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platforms overall performance and reliability
You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams
Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives
Have taken over an existing organization, leading through engineering managers or team leads, in the past
Experience working with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL
Experience working with CRM-type applications that deal with problems like entity resolution and designing data models to store lots of attributes across many entities
Experience building data-intensive applications
Responsibilities

As Director of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the charge in scaling our engineering team, which is at the core of our innovative CRM product and relationship intelligence platform.

Your strategic vision will guide iterative project delivery, harmonizing product leadership collaboration with technological excellence
You'll be instrumental in directing our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications
Partner with product and design leaders to shape and implement a clear vision for our product's future
Lead engineering execution and delivery, ensuring the creation of quality software and a delightful user experience for our global users through continuous, iterative development practices
Grow, evolve, and scale your organization by shaping the team's composition, specifying hiring needs, and sourcing and onboarding engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams
Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members
Design key processes for your organization and the broader engineering team, strategically engaging in project details to boost overall team performance
Craft a technical strategy and roadmap that is deeply aligned with Affinitys business and product needs, from building an industry-leading relationship graph to delivering blazing-fast performance across our suite of applications and APIs
Manage technical debt thoughtfully, preserving our codebase's integrity amid rapid growth
Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions that are aligned with business context as well as product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies
Benefits
Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days
We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program after all, one of our core values is that were #obsessedwithlearning
We support our employees overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment
Virtual team building and socials
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $170,600 to $288,000 USD
Join Affinity as we redefine the way professionals manage and leverage their networks, transforming relationships into meaningful opportunities.

You'll join a team that's focused on improving our core product and platform, making relationship intelligence indispensable through the use of advanced data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

With our growing user base and... expansion into new markets, we're more engaged than ever in our mission to deliver relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere.

Your role and impact:

As Director of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the charge in scaling our engineering team, which is at the core of our innovative CRM product and relationship intelligence platform.

Your strategic vision will guide iterative project delivery, harmonizing product leadership collaboration with technological excellence.

You'll be instrumental in directing our technical and architectural roadmap, ensuring peak performance and user experience through our suite of applications.

Partner with product and design leaders to shape and implement a clear vision for our product's future.

Lead engineering execution and delivery, ensuring the creation of quality software and a delightful user experience for our global users through continuous, iterative development practices.

Grow, evolve, and scale your organization by shaping the team's composition, specifying hiring needs, and sourcing and onboarding engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams.

Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members.

Design key processes for your organization and the broader engineering team, strategically engaging in project details to boost overall team performance.

Craft a technical strategy and roadmap that is deeply aligned with Affinitys business and product needs, from building an industry-leading relationship graph to delivering blazing-fast performance across our suite of applications and APIs.

Manage technical debt thoughtfully, preserving our codebase's integrity amid rapid growth.

Navigate complex discussions and drive decisions that are aligned with business context as well as product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies.

Qualifications

Dont meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification.

At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if youre excited about this role, but your past experience doesnt perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways.

You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Required:
13+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations.

8+ years in an engineering leadership role, overseeing teams of 10 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads.

Experience developing, coaching and managing engineers and Engineering Managers.

Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while being willing to challenge them.

Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates.

Passion for designing, evolving, and optimizing the development process, ideally leveraging practices such as Kanban to help developers maintain a seamless workflow.

Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy.
Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platforms overall performance and reliability.
You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams.
Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and prioritize diverse perspectives.

Nice to have:
Have taken over an existing organization, leading through engineering managers or team leads, in the past
Experience working with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL.

Experience working with CRM-type applications that deal with problems like entity resolution and designing data models to store lots of attributes across many entities.

Experience building data-intensive applications.
Tech stack

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end.

Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.

What youll enjoy at Affinity:

We live our values as playmakers, obsessed with learning, care personally about our colleagues and clients, are radically open-minded, and take pride in everything we do.

Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days.

We want our team to be happy and healthy :
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We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program after all, one of our core values is that were #obsessedwithlearning

We support our employees overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment.

Virtual team building and socials. Keeping people connected is essential.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity, or benefits.

This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $170,600 to $288,000 USD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant
Company information

Affinitys patented technology structures and analyzes millions of data points across emails, calendars, and third-party sources to offer users the tools they need to automatically manage their most valuable relationships, prioritize important connections, and discover untapped opportunities.

Affinity uses artificial intelligence to analyze relationship strength and illuminate the best paths to warm introductions.

The platform also offers a holistic view of users networks in a centralized, automatically updated database without any manual upkeep.

Founded in 2014, Affinity is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Affinity has raised $120M to date and is backed by leading investors including Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, 8VC and MassMutual Ventures.

It has over 1,800 customers in 70 countries, including venture capital firms such as Bain Capital Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, private equity firms such as SoftBank Group, investment bankers such as Woodside Capital Partners, financial services firms such as Fidelity Investments, real estate companies such as Tishman Speyer, insurers such as American Family Insurance and enterprises such as Nike, Qualcomm and Twilio.

Affinity has been named Fortune Magazine's Best Workplace, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces and editor's number one pick, the Data Breakthrough Award, BIG Innovation Award and others.
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Company Specialties:
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