Senior Director, Engineering Job at Sandboxx
Sandboxx is the leading platform dedicated to finding and building technology solutions throughout a service member's military life cycle. We're looking for people with drive and initiative who are excited about making great technology and a positive attitude for our service members. Come help us build meaningful solutions for the military community!
We're looking for an experienced, people-focused, and results-oriented Senior Director of Engineering to lead multiple teams across multiple product lines while implementing a development process that supports timely delivery at scale. The ideal candidate will be a thoughtful, empathetic, skilled leader with a track record of building and supporting teams that deliver value with urgency.
In this role, you will plan, direct, coordinate, and oversee activities in the Engineering department, ensuring the development and implementation of efficient operations and cost-effective systems to meet the current and future needs of the company. You will consistently drive engineering success stories with the goal of building products that transform the military community in a fast-growing environment.
Here's what you'll do day-to-day
- Leading the team through management and mentorship
- Developing standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent
- Recruit, hire, and retain the future generation of engineering talent, and expect the team to grow in the coming years
- Preparing and optimizing budgets
- Foster practices that encourage continuous improvement and a focus on results
- Recommending technological developments and improvements in efficiency
- Developing the team to ensure quality end products
- Develop, plan, grow and execute formal product and infrastructure security initiatives
- Take the initiative to diagnose what we're good at, what we're not, and what we need to try next
- Implement and refine development processes that support timely delivery at scale.
- Partner with an inclusive, collaborative, and diverse-skilled product team that loves to create reliable, intuitive, and useful products
Here's what you'll need to be successful
- Experience leading an engineering organization of at least fifteen (15) people at a venture-backed technology company
- Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers, architects, and individual contributors
- Have at least four (4) years of engineering leadership experience
- Have led a team responsible for multiple products with diverse technology stacks
- Have a deep understanding of software development, web technologies, and mobile application development
- Experience leading teams through multiple funding rounds
- Experience working in a startup environment with all the wonderful opportunities and unique challenges that come with that culture
- Key competencies: initiative, communication, and leadership skills
- Do good by doin' good
Interview Process
- Your application will be reviewed for possible next steps by People Ops & the Hiring Manager.
- If you meet eligibility requirements, the next step would be a phone screen with the Director of People Operations for about thirty (30) minutes.
- If warranted, the next step would be a video interview with the Chief Technology Officer for one (1) hour.
- If warranted, the next step would be a video panel interview with key engineering team members for two (2) hours.
- If warranted, the final step would be a video panel interview with the executive team for two-and-a-half (2.5) hours.
- Part of the executive interview will require a candidate to present a light work promptly to the panel for discussion. The work prompt will not be cumbersome and should not take longer than one (1) hour to execute.
- If warranted, then we move to offer!
Compensation, Benefits, and Perks
- Equity incentive plan
- Top tier medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans where Sandboxx pays 100% of most employee-only plans, 75% of employee + plans
- Unlimited PTO with eleven (11) company-paid holidays
- A robust wellness stipend and learning & development stipend that empowers employees with the flexibility to use as they see fit
- Twelve (12) weeks paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
- 401(k) plan with the match starting on Day One
- The opportunity to do what you love at a startup that is changing the lives of service members in the military community
Sandboxx is an equal opportunity employer - if you are a continuous learner who enjoys startups in either tech or military, you'll thrive at Sandboxx. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and take affirmative action to not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, promotion, termination, compensation, benefits, and training. Sandboxx is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodations, please email people@sandboxx.us.
To all recruitment agencies: Sandboxx does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Sandboxx employees, or any other organization location. Sandboxx is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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