mindbodygreen is seeking an experienced technical leader to join our Product & Engineering team as the Director of Engineering. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers; collaborating with product and marketing teams; improving coding standards and development, deployment, and QA processes; and developing technical solutions and strategies.

Prior leadership experience is a requirement for this position, as well as strong collaborative and communications skills. You will be working with a large cross-functional team and will interface with stakeholders at various levels. Strong engineering and systems design experience will help you work with the CTO to create strategic development roadmaps and lead our engineering team in the execution of projects.

Our engineering team consists of full-stack engineers who work in React, Express, Docker, Gatsby, and Serverless with AWS Lambda as the primary platforms. We constantly seek to find technologies to improve our processes and performance, and want a Director of Engineering to help push our capabilities forward and mentor our growing team.

Key Responsibilities

Lead our engineering teams in the development of new products and features to meet our company goals

Implement process improvements for the development, deployment, QA, and maintenance of our software

Develop technical strategies with the CTO, and technical specifications with our development team for execution

Identify and leverage new technologies to improve team and software performance and enhance our user experience

Assist with resource planning and communication of requirements to senior leadership

Help manage team performance and morale

Get your hands dirty in some code when the situation requires it

Lead in the development of a mobile application

Job Requirements

Engineering, Computer Science, or similar degree

Strong organizational skills

Several years of experience managing teams of developers and devops engineers

Previous working experience in software design

A passion for development operations, continuous delivery, software quality, and monitoring and observability

Recent hands-on coding experience in technologies like React, Node, Gatsby, and Serverless

Experience with QA and automated testing

Direct experience working multiple AWS technologies

Curiosity and a desire to stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies