Director, Software Engineer
SpotX is the most transparent programmatic video advertising platform with more than 7 billion ad decisions per day reaching 600 million unique visitors in more than 190 countries.
We are seeking a highly talented Director, Software Engineering who can contribute brilliantly to our team located in Westminster, CO. We are a fast-paced but casual environment with highly talented peers. The most successful team members are versatile, disciplined and enjoy focusing on new challenges.
We don't believe in "culture fit". We believe in you being a genuine human being and pleasant to work with. Sure, we might share a beer at work or after work but you don't have to. You just need to be a contributing member of our team who is thoughtful and wants to do quality work.
Making an immediate impact:
- Manage and direct 2 full stack development teams
- Focus on improving process and delivery
- Deliver clear vision, direction, and standards for your organization and maintain them
- Work hard to be a team player with other organizations like Product, Operations, etc
- Cares about people and helps them grow careers, skills, and relationships
- Clearly communicate business goals to your team
- Builds a culture of trust, transparency, humor, hard work, and fun
- Ensure process and standards compliance, design and implementation quality and participate in the development and evolution of same
- Not afraid to delegate 100% of ownership to trusted team members
- Promoting a metrics-based software development culture of quality, collaboration, rapid delivery
- Help Product team understand the need for prioritizing tech debt projects
Needed SpotX'er talents:
- 3-5 years experience managing in a dynamic software development organization
- Experience building distributed, fault tolerant services
- Familiarly with the latest web-scale software development techniques
- Detail-oriented leader who thrives on process engineering and leading change
- Demonstrated success managing 10+ engineers using agile, collaborative practices
- Understands how engineers should talk to business units
- Believes in TDD, even if you don't practice it
- Continuous Integration is a useful tool in your experience, not window dressing
- Thinks that releases should be early and often (really, really, often)
- Is ready to ask "What do you think?"
- Understand technology, ask the right questions and point out flaws in proposed solutions
SpotX Perks:
- Work-life balance
- Unlimited PTO(work it out with your team first!), company closed from Christmas to New Years
- Make a real difference - your code reaches millions of people as soon as you release it
- Work in a fun, casual, team environment – flip flops OK
- Frisbees, foosball, and ping pong
Every day, our team transforms online video advertising and solves difficult problems by utilizing creativity, innovation, and solid technical expertise. We value diversity, individual contributions, and can offer you the advantages of working with a hyper-growth company including an agile environment, the ability to influence product decisions, and open access to company leaders. You will also enjoy stability and benefits such as medical, dental, 401(k), and paid vacations to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.