Director of Engineering

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Company: Anedot
Location: New Orleans, LA

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You enjoy leading teams and programming for complex data platforms with transactional workflows and zero tolerance for errors. We believe that happy people produce better results for themselves and the collective team. We believe and value empowering people to work on something they enjoy — thus applicants likely would want to have an interest in serving campaigns, churches, ministries, non-profits, and schools.
You should be able to quickly assess each individual team member’s skills as well as the team as a whole. You should have an interest in coming alongside the team and working toward the best solutions. We’re not a huge fan of big egos so if you’re looking for a place where you can simply boss folks around, this probably isn’t the right fit. Experience and expertise command respect and cause others to follow. We believe that everyone has the ability to have great ideas and solutions to problems regardless of title. We’re seeking someone with experience to lead the team on the best paths toward great outcomes — not someone simply with the loudest opinions.

5 Tasks & responsibilities:
  • Assess and plan Product Roadmap and schedule with CEO and Directors
  • Coordinate, delineate, and assign engineering/technical work (frontend/backend/devops) to align with Product Roadmap
  • Coach and work alongside other engineering team members to strategize, troubleshoot, debug, and improve the platform.
  • Write well-designed, testable code, and commit work via GitHub in team agile, collaborative, engineering environment leading weekly sprints leading the team by example
  • Continuously increase knowledge and skills (including relevant codebase languages)

5 Skills & experience the candidate must have:
  • Full-stack programming experience on a platform serving at least thousands of users (Ruby on Rails and/or React).
  • Minimum 7 years working in agile team-oriented development environment (1) with delivery experience (2) with peer code reviews
  • Minimum 1 year project management experience leading a team (8-10 or more people) to achieve quality results on time.
  • Strong familiarity with SQL/RDBMS (Postgres is a plus).
  • Bachelor’s degree (computer science, math, or related field a plus)

3 ways you will be evaluated in this role:
  • Meeting Product and Company timelines
  • App performance
  • Code contribution and quality, communication, teamwork, documentation, and completeness of work; aka “responsible and cool to work with” (peer review)

Compensation:
  • $130,000 – $170,000 based on experience
  • Unlimited PTO w/ 18 day per year minimum
  • Remote work from CA, FL, LA, MD, OH, TX, or WA

Organization:
You will lead our Engineering team as part of the Product team. The Product and Growth teams are operated by our CEO and Directors of Design, Engineering, Marketing, and Success respectively.
  • Operations (Accounts, Finance, Service)
  • Product (Design, DevOps, Engineering )
  • Growth (Marketing, Outreach, Success)

Company Values:
We’re rooted in Southern Louisiana but operate as a remote-first company that supports our team living in Texas, California, Washington, Ohio, Maryland, and Florida. We’ve got an old fashioned commitment to honor and excellence in what we do, and our customer-first hospitality is described as welcoming, courteous, helpful, respectful, and kind. We’re the type of people whom you count on to do what is right and have your back.

Technical Info:
  • Ruby (Rails)
  • Javascript (React)
  • Postgres
  • GitHub
  • AWS Cloud platform
  • Kubernetes
  • Sidekiq Enterprise for workers/jobs/queues
  • Testing tools/frameworks
  • TravisCI
  • Cypress
  • GitHub Actions


Application Process:
  • Submit Team Member Application
  • Screening Interview
  • Technical Assessment
  • Team Specific Interview

About Anedot

Anedot empowers more than 12,000 churches, ministries, campaigns, and schools to empower generosity and increase giving with less effort.