Director of Application Development
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a bias towards action, with the ability to balance between getting things done and making things perfect
- Develop tools, systems, and technology to meet our internal and external client requirements
- Coach and mentor your direct reports on best engineering practices, collaboration across multiple teams, communication and problem solving
- Drive and uphold high engineering standards, staying well-versed in best practices for engineering management
Required Experience
- Knowledge of the advertising and marketing industry preferred (i.e., Advertising systems, Digital communication and marketing platforms, Personalization solutions, Marketing Automation, and Web Analytics)
- Proven experience leading teams in an Agile environment
- Ability to provide direction and leadership within a team environment
- Excellent problem solver
- Ability to document requirements and specifications
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Must be able to explain limitations, both technical and time, to non-technical team members
Qualifications:
- Experience with consumer-facing web app
- Experience with supporting an API-based platform for external clients
- 5+ years in technology and 2+ years in engineering management roles
- Led or managed a team of 3+ Developers/Programmers
- Managed multiple engineering teams in multiple locations
- Experience with our technology stack or similar (PHP, Java)
- Work experience includes small- or medium-sized companies
- Experience working on high-availability systems is a plus