Sr. Director, Software Engineering

Spreetail propels brands to increase their ecommerce market share across the globe while improving their operational costs. Learn how we are building one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies in history: www.spreetail.com.  
Spreetail is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to join our team remotely. In this role, you will be highly focused on our developer experience from talent development, quality, tools, innovation and velocity.
In order to work remotely, you must reside or be willing to relocate to NE, MN, IN, PA, GA, TX, FL, UT, NV, or WA.

How you will achieve success in this role:

• Talent Managment and Development– we have an environment built on expertise. We must set a high standard in the talent of our engineers and pride ourselves on continually raising the bar of what it means to be an engineer at Spreetail. Learning and challenging each other must become a way of life. Our engineering talent will be revered within our industry.
• High velocity – we move faster and get more done than other engineering teams. This comes from creating a culture of measuring performance and diving deep to understand how we remove distractions and maximize velocity.
• Quality – we build for the long-haul and have a robust evaluation of the quality our Engineers produce. We don’t consider quality as a binary, but rather a spectrum of craftsmanship in which we intentionally decide where to set the bar based on the system, product, and future of our Technology.
• Future Forward – we build a three-year roadmap of Technology needs. This is done in unison with our product and company roadmaps to ensure our technology choices drive and accelerate change across the business. You champion this roadmap across Spreetail to garner support from executives and key stakeholders to properly invest in our technology.
• Developer Experience – we prioritize the developer experience and ensure our processes, tooling, and infrastructure choices are based on the experience of the developer. Developers feel supported and empowered to build. Our developer satisfaction is of the highest in the industry.
• Tooling and Competencies – we proactively identify the necessary tooling and engineering competencies to keep pace with evolution, innovation, and our future product roadmaps. Furthermore, once identified, we systematically and aggressively incorporate them into our toolset and knowledge base.
•  Innovative – we prefer to be early when evaluating new technologies. More specifically, we continually monitor, test, evaluate, and communicate the changes in technology, such as AI, alongside a robust strategy to maximize the value to Spreetail.
• Infrastructure – we have a three-year infrastructure roadmap to ensure we’re taking advantage of evolutions in infrastructure while minimizing costs. Infrastructure and the access to it is driven by the empowerment of team and extreme visibility and ownership of cost.
• Resiliency – we have a tested high-availability and disaster-recovery strategy across all production environments appropriately built based on the needs of the business and product. 

What experiences will help you in this role:

•  15+ years progressive experience in an engineering role, building solutions from the ground up that support major business functions.
• Experience successfully managing multiple teams of engineers and collaborating with senior level peers and executives to drive enterprise level initiatives.
• Has managed multi-million-dollar cloud-based infrastructure and tooling budgets.
• Able to contribute to technical direction for an entire organization, generally performing at the level of a Sr Software Engineer or Principal Engineer
• Strong software design and architecture skills. Expertise in multiple software engineering domains, so you can consider multiple ways of designing system, consider all options prior to implementation.
• Negotiation skills necessary for management of external vendors 

In an effort to Make Spreetail Better, we hire people that are aligned with our values and are passionate about pursuing ecommerce excellence. We believe the right person can learn what is needed to succeed in their role, so we encourage job applicants to apply even if you don't meet all the qualifications listed. We are looking for diverse backgrounds and perspectives, so we don’t require college degrees and welcome non-linear career paths. If this role highlights your experience and gets you excited – please apply!
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