Director of Engineering

Job Title: Director of Engineering
Job ID: 82299 
Location: Jeffersontown, Kentucky


What you will be doing:

• Building amazing software that make us the leader in our space

• One of two technical leaders of a dedicated engineering team handling core software services and related deployment code

• Guide and mentor other engineers on architectural design, appropriate data model, and reasonable deployment, supporting other teams as features are developed that use your services

• Be the visionary for a disciplined team of hardcore software engineers and talented product managers using the latest tooling

• This role is 50% coding, 50% management. Don’t apply if you are not hands on technical.

What you must have:

• Experience working in an agile development environment, building high performance REST and GraphQL services on AWS

• Have led teams of 5 or more engineers in your career

• Strong hands-on coding experience in Laravel and Python/Django

• Must live within 3 hours of Eastern Standard Time (EST); strong preference for candidates within 7 hours driving time to Louisville, KY (Nashville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Columbus, Chicago, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Pittsburg, Cleveland) for occasional meetups

• 10+ years of professional experience developing enterprise level, large-scale web services

• 5+ years of experience working in Laravel, Django and/or Javascript at SaaS software companies, where your code is used by external customers (not internal users)

• Experience with authentication (oAuth2, LDAP) and writing your own token service, as well as secrets encryption using sealed secrets, Hashicorp Vault, or AWS secrets manager

• Current job title is sr. engineering manager or higher

• Deep experience writing and tuning queries for relational databases including PostgreSQL and MySQL

• Significant experience with docker and docker-compose, including multistage docker builds

• Production GraphQL experience, ideally using versioning

• Experience with AWS networking including ALB/ELB, VPC, and the two dozen other objects on the VPC page, deployed using technologies such as Terraform

• Deep git fu, including knowledge of advanced git technique (rebase, amend a commit)

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or comparable industry experience within a software organization, or higher

• Experience working across the org with product managers and eng teams; good sense of the give and take in driving an architectural vision across multiple releases

• Curious, dedicated to learning, low ego

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com