Director of Software Engineering

Overview

Corporate Tools is hiring a hands-on Director of Software Engineering in Dallas, TX. You will be a traditional company employee. This role is remote for now, but we like to keep things flexible. There may be times when we'll ask you to come into the office, think of it as an occasional change of scenery. You'll be working 40 hours a week and, of course, enjoy great company benefits.

Wage

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Anual review with raise option
• 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
• After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
• The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
• Paid Parental Leave
• Up to 6% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
• Quarterly allowance
• To be used for making your remote work setup more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself… really, whatever

Benefits

• An open concept office with friendly coworkers
• A creative environment where you can make a difference
• No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
• A Trail Mix Bar — oh yeah

Responsibilities

• All Engineering: Software, Database, Architecture, etc.
• Develop solutions and applications for business services, while leading and mentoring the team
• Focus on team culture and personal development
• Ensure technical feasibility of software and API designs
• Drive product roadmap and execution, and participate in technical design
• Identify and correct issues that impact performance, reliability, and scalability

Requirements

• You're a nice person
• You're amazing at communicating but also the true technical lead with all things engineering and development
• You can show a lot of screwups you've had and how you've pivoted on large scale applications
• You can show how you've led and managed large scale software and developer engineering teams
• 7+ years' experience with software development and engineering (Ruby preferred but not required)
• 5+ years’ experience managing and developing software development teams of 15-30 engineers and support
• 10-15 years of front-end, back-end and REST API software design and implementation of commercial software products or 3-5 years of SaaS based product development
• Understanding of cloud (AWS) architectures and design patterns
• Experience working cross functionally in an Agile environment
• Experience developing mission critical applications and solutions
• Ability to design complete systems. Up to date on industry trends, best practices and change management