Director, Product Engineering

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Company. What we are building:

Skupos drives revenue growth across all segments of the convenience retail industry through technology that connects both retailers and brands to their shoppers. With a focus on independent stores and small chains which make up nearly 80% of the market, the Skupos platform enables both retailers and brands to compete through better understanding and serving their customers. Founded in 2016, a growing network of 14,000+ customers across all 50 states rely on Skupos to boost sales volume and increase their customer base.

Role.  An overview of the opportunity:

At Skupos, we are committed to delivering the most innovative and industry leading digital products that our customers will love. Our Engineering group ensures Skupos delivers first-class web and Data products that disrupt supply chain convenience store business and delight our customers. Working in collaboration with our engineering, product, design and go-to-market teams, we will build software that solves real-world problems.

With a talented and diverse team of engineers, we are proud of our inclusive culture, deep customer focus and technical excellence. In this critical leadership position reporting to VP Engineering, you will work closely with your product management and design counterparts as well as data science and data engineering peers to deliver world class web applications.

Success is achieved by passionately advocating for technical excellence, software quality, and process/organizational improvements. In the capacity of a Director of Engineering, you will fulfill a core leadership function for your team carrying responsibility for technical excellence, execution, cross-functional collaboration, people growth, and day-to-day management.


Core Responsibilities. You will:

  • Direct and coach engineering teams comprising backend, frontend, infrastructure and DevOps in successfully delivering scalable, maintainable, and secure features to our customers
  • Prioritize short-term and long-term goals, along with architectural trade-offs to ensure the team is able to deliver quality results while meeting the team’s deliverables
  • Drive the technical strategy, roadmap and priorities for your teams, and work with dependencies across the company
  • Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability
  • Grow your teams by coaching, developing, promoting the engineers on your teams, and by attracting and hiring top talent
  • Represent the team to engineering groups internally, to executive sponsor in various functional groups within Skupos, to current and future customers, and to our partner organizations
  • Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment
  • Collaborate with Product/Project Managers to plan, implement, and deliver tasks and features on a timely basis with best practices
  • Deliver Web applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness
  • Create strong practices around test-driven development
  • Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects
  • Manage a geographically dispersed technical team
  • Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Skupos’s engineering management team
  • Be a critical partner contributing to Skupos’s broader success


Experience. You should have:

  • Passion for leading teams through transformations
  • Organizational leadership, ability to inspire and grow teams, and attract great talent
  • Enjoys product and design ideation as much as they do building product
  • Ability to be both player & coach: We’re looking for someone who is passionate about getting into the details and driving large technology initiatives while coaching and empowering teams to take ownership
  • Strong technologist, not purely a "manager of managers", but capable of doing code reviews, architecture review and driving deep technical discussion with architects/Sr. Engineers 
  • 5+ years of experience successfully leading, managing, and coaching engineering teams
  • 10+ years of hands-on software development experience
  • Experience in building and supporting B2B/B2C SaaS applications used at scale
  • Deep understanding or experience in scaling monolithic applications / transformation to service-oriented architecture
  • Deep expertise in building software platforms, specifically performance distributed systems, leveraging modern frameworks
  • Well versed in modern cloud native technologies and frameworks
  • A deep understanding of the agile software development process
  • Must be a compelling and clear communicator, able to represent your team to internal and external audiences with differing levels of technical fluency
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities/projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to develop a results-driven culture focused on core values of ownership and accountability
  • Good Analytical, Problem-Solving, and Debugging skills
  • Continuously increasing your team's work quality & performance
  • Ability to think from a product mindset
  • Have overseen development across the full stack


Ideal Mindset

  • Strong Technical Leader — You direct the team with deep technical expertise through a people-first mentality style
  • Resourceful — You are a go-getter that leads by example, drives self-research and is an endless problem solver
  • Clear — You provide clear and actionable direction to your team and customers
  • Collaborative — A dynamic team player, you are proactive about soliciting and giving feedback
  • Passionate — You love quality engineering, design and technology and the role it has in shaping the future



Benefits. What we offer:

  • Competitive salary
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Discretionary time off (DTO)
  • Wellness stipend
  • And more!

 

A Note on Covid...

We are fortunate to continue to grow during this unfortunate time. Our top priority is to ensure the health and safety of both our current and future Skupeeps.

As of July, our physical office spaces have reopened on a voluntary basis.  Our Skuad members are allowed onsite if they are fully vaccinated (2 weeks past final vaccine dose).  That being said, we will continue to manage our interview process virtually, don't be surprised if children or pets make an appearance.

We deeply care about you as our candidate, so let the People Team know if there’s anything we can do to make your interview process go more smoothly - we are in your corner!

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Location

Skupos is in the heart of Downtown Downtown only a few blocks away from Union Station with a beautiful view of the Rocky Mountains!

An Insider's view of Skupos

What’s the vibe like in the office?

Skupos is a place that thrives on creativity and innovation, and is unique in the amount of talent its employees have. It gives people the autonomy to get the job done in their own way and allows them to go after what they’re passionate about. I love hearing others in the office getting excited about a project, or hyping one another's idea up.

Christina

Salesforce Admin

What projects are you most excited about?

Projects that relate to providing the most utility to the independent retailer is what excites me most. To be able to have an influence on the independent retailer network and the communities they serve is a is a blessing and I hope to continue to draw more inspiration from the great ideas our team has to deliver more value to them.

David

Engineering Project Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Skupos continually invests in its people and their careers. I first started as a BDR on the sales team here at Skupos. Within 6 months I was promoted to Account Executive and later spent time in the Key Account Executive role before transitioning to Regional Sales Manager. Now I manage a number of reps and put their career growth at the center!

Zach

Head of Retail Sales

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

I constantly encourage my team to represent their views as we ideate on the future of our products, services, and how we go to market. I try to cater to all different communication styles so that quieter voices are heard as loudly as the rest. All ideas should be weighted, and most importantly, credited to the brilliant minds behind them!

Christine

Chief Revenue Officer

What are some things you learned at the company?

Learning is key to success in any job, but I never knew it could be so engaging and exciting when learning things you are actually interested in and that are related to your day to day. Keeping in line with marketing tech trends to continue to develop Skupos' thought leadership across retail has been a great learning experience day in and day out.

Scott

Demand Generation Manager

What are Skupos Perks + Benefits

Skupos Benefits Overview

Unlimited Paid Time Off, 401K, Paid Holidays, Parental Leave, Wellness Stipend, Mental Health Support, Commuter Benefits, Life & Disability Coverage

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
During Covid, we have provided extra flexible work schedules that includes Flexible start and end times - we know it's not easy during this time!
Remote work program
Our remote work program includes a monthly wellness stipend ($100) to help offset the costs of working from home during during Covid.
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Hiring practices that promote diversity
We have set aspirational diversity goals for how we want Skupos to be represented by 2022: 50% gender ratio, 33% of all pipeline from Underrepresented Groups, 25% diversity on our Board of Directors.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Mental health benefits
Face-to-face counseling and/or two-way video chat with a Therapist
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 16 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Skupos also provides 12 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Skupos has unlimited PTO.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Fitness stipend
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours

Additional Perks + Benefits

Unlimited snacks & drinks!

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