Director of Engineering

About the Outdoorsy team

At Outdoorsy, we believe that you don’t need a journalist (Apple Watch or Ralph Waldo Emerson) to tell you that “spending time in nature makes you happier, less stressed, healthier, and even slows down the aging of your brain.” You know what else slows down the aging of your brain? S’mores. Next to an open fire. With your dog, your kids, your partner, or your BFFs close by.

We are the leading global RV rental platform (and one of Forbes Best Startup Employers for 2022) BUT our “product” is what happens to you when you step outside. We host a growing marketplace that connects hundreds of thousands of guests to millions of days in front of fire pits, beside alpine lakes, in national parks and at family reunions or music festivals. We are proud to be doing this in partnership with thousands of passionate RV owners and entrepreneurs who we also support with leading insurtech and fintech product offerings.

We believe that ‘the outdoors is a part of human nature’ and we are on a mission to ‘restore our relationship with the outdoors and each other’. The Outdoorsy team is dedicated to activating this mission by breaking down barriers and creating more opportunities for everyone to ‘bring the outside in’. If you’re passionate about sharing the transformative benefit of time spent outdoors with others, join us!

About the Role

You will be a technical leader overseeing several engineering sprint teams as they design, build, improve, and maintain our core products. In this role you will be largely hands off but should be close enough to our technology to troubleshoot complex problems, perform code review, and provide expert guidance to teams regarding system design.

Requirements

Your work at Outdoorsy:

• You collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams to produce high quality, resilient, useful, and secure products
• You ensure delivery of team commitments via leadership and mentorship
• Drive your teams to create specs, diagrams, and decision documents
• Work on strategic projects to reduce costs, increase quality, leverage a new tool or supplier, or decide on a new process.
• Communicate with a vendor to troubleshoot an existing integration
• Drive architectural decisions with an eye towards scalability, reuse, security, performance, and availability
• Align team resources and processes with strategic goals of our products and company
• Work with team leads on team leadership and team building. Take an active interest in building the careers of team members.

What you will bring to the table:

• Creative problem solver with a bias towards action
• 7+ years of experience
• Small company or startup experience is a plus
• Previous team leadership
• An ability and desire to be hands on
• Experience with our stack is plus
  • GCP/AWS
  • iOS / Android / Go / React
  • Postgres / MySQL / Elasticsearch

Impact plan

• Demonstrates competency in the relevant technologies and tools in our products and development environment
• Your teams consistently deliver on their commitments and are focused on continuous improvement
• Increasing the technical competence of your sprint teams including technical skill growth via great hiring, training, mentoring, and building a culture of learning.
• Leads by example and lives our principles.
• Advises on strategic decisions, budget, and organizational structure of the entire engineering team.
• Accountable for the delivery of the broader engineering organization. Including non feature based work on security, compliance, privacy, high availability, resiliency, cost effectiveness, and organizational health.

Benefits

Benefits & Perks:

• Opportunity to help build company from early stage
• Competitive salary
• Equity in one of the world's fastest growing companies
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) Match
• Flexible PTO
• Annual RV rentals - we believe in balance and taking the time to nourish mind, body, and soul

Salary:

$180,000 - $210,000 DOE

The expected compensation range for this position is displayed in accordance with potentially applicable laws. The final agreed-upon compensation is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to: individual education, qualifications, prior work experience, and geographic work location. The total annual compensation package may consist of a base salary and bonus dependent upon position. It is the policy of Outdoorsy Holdings, Inc.