Director of Software Engineering

Are you a zealot for engineering, velocity, and software in an organization?

Are you fanatical about great customer experiences? Do you love digging into a customer’s pains, industry trends, market conditions, and more, all to evaluate the information, chew it up, and find within it the exact right answer about what a fast-growing and fast-developing engineering team should do next to step up software engineering and development processes?

Join us as the Director of Software Engineering and be instrumental in helping achieve our vision to change behavior and revolutionize payment in the gigantic and increasingly tech-savvy construction industry.

If you have the right stuff to join us, you’ll join passionate professionals who are disrupting a $1 Trillion industry, in a dynamic, rapidly growing, and professionally challenging environment. The role demands passion and zeal for the Engineering craft, great technical depth, well-honed business sense, empathy for users who may be nothing like you, and a stubborn ability to look at how everyone else is approaching a problem and not conforming.

Why It’s Exciting

This is an exciting opportunity to:

• Build and shape highly impactful software that makes a real difference in good people’s lives;
• Work in the globally massive construction technology sector that is red-hot with investor interest;
• Build a category around the impactful problem of construction payment;
• Work with a thoughtful and inspiring team who are working together on the meaningful cause of empowering people in the construction industry to always get what they earn.

What You’ll Do

The Director of Software Engineering at Levelset is responsible for leading software engineers, technical leads, and architects. You represent your teams to the rest of the company and are the focal point for development execution.
You are responsible and accountable for the team following through on execution and translating product requirements into high-quality software solutions. With the help and participation of the team, you are responsible for architecture and design decisions. Below are some more details about what you’ll be doing.

Measuring & Reporting On Team Execution

You’ll know when things are going well or poorly on your team, and when we’re are delivering the goods, because you will mature the way we measure, report, and analyze our engineering efforts. You’ll make sure these measurements are clear and comprehensive, and are front and center to all involved, and they will help the company make and support product and business decisions. And you’ll work collaboratively with your team to make sure that they deliver the right software on-time with the right quality measures and processes for support.

Contributing to Architecture and Managing Tech-Debt

You’ll be maintaining control over the software architecture and maintaining technical debt for the parts of the software that you build, and you’ll be working collaboratively with the architecture committee to drive wider architectural enhancements and debt repay. You’ll also be communicating with all stakeholders to make sure that architectural changes are aligned with everyone’s goals and debate cross-teams compromises to collaboratively find the right balance. Occasionally, you’ll be guiding your teams to evaluate and choose between 3rd party tools or solutions.

All The Tablestakes Stuff

Software hygiene will be good, engineering documentation will be done excellently, there will be no critical bugs, observability and failure detection will be built-in the system designs, there won’t be too much technical debt and we won’t be optimizing solutions pre-maturely before we validate fit. You’ll juggle all the feedback asking for a little of this and that, and you’ll separate the important, the essential, and the distractions. Your team will use the best suitable technologies pragmatically, and those will be well pruned, run, optimized, and cashed in on. Also, you’ll maintain open communication channels with product managers and technical leads to facilitate technical decision making.

Who You’ll Work With

• The CTO, Director of Quality, and Director of DevOps overseeing all functional verticals.
• Your product, devops and quality teams for executing collaboratively on your teams goals.
• The engineering directors and engineering teams in other offices for support and collaboration.
• Our Customers.

What We’d Like To See

• 10+ years of software development experience

• 5+ years of people management experience

• Excellent understanding of software engineering, design, and architecture concepts

• A strong leader and role-model for technical excellence

• Several years of experience in technical leadership

• Excellent delegation and people management skills

• Strong communication skills: knows when to ask tough questions about projects

• Able to make decisions quickly even without complete information, does not fall victim to analysis paralysis

• Follows through on commitments, is able to shift from planning to execution mode with ease

• Is transparent about what they’re working on, progress to goals, obstacles they’ve encountered

• Celebrates team successes and helps their peers be successful

• Maintains a positive attitude even when working through obstacles

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

What We Offer

We are passionate about software engineering, and building beautiful software products using advanced technologies and efficient development workflows. Our goal is to become the most attractive software employer in the area, through investing in our team’s skills and wellbeing and challenging everyone to build awesome software. Our office is in a quiet neighborhood surrounded by relaxing green scenery visible through our many windows. Below are highlights of standard company benefits:

• Full paid Health insurance. Dental / Vision group plan available.
• Flexible sick & personal leave policy
• Open vacation policy without a cap on the number of days-off. We do require employees to take a minimum of 7 days off in a row each year.
• Subsidized International Travel: We subsidize international travel airfare. Qualify for one subsidy every 14 months, with amount of subsidy determined by tenure (i.e. $450 in 1st year, $650 in second year, $750 in third year, $850 in fourth year, and so on).
• Cocktail Friday events every Friday, and other fun team events
• Equity, per company’s general stock grant plan

However, what we really offer is not all that, it’s the chance to be on a rocket-ship! To build software with the highest standards of agility, efficiency, and usability, and work with a team of outstanding players in an awesome working environment to make a real difference in good people’s lives!

Read more about why being on a rocket ship is the best of your career options from Levelset’s CEO here.

About Levelset (formerly zlien)

Levelset helps contractors and suppliers get payment under control, and envisions a world where no one loses a night’s sleep over payment.

Over 500,000 contractors and suppliers connect on Levelset’s cloud-based platform to make payment processes stress-free. Users easily exchange payment documents like lien waivers, pay applications, and preliminary notices, they see a complete picture of who is on their job, and are empowered with the resources and knowledge they need to be confident in payment. The results are faster payments and fewer surprises.

Levelset is venture-backed by S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, and Brick & Mortar Ventures. Headquartered in New Orleans with offices in Austin and Cairo, Egypt, Levelset employs more than 150 people. We’re a rapidly growing team working on interesting and worthwhile problems, with a mountain of opportunity for you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Are you ready?

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