Director - Software Engineering - GrubHub - Chicago

Job description
Our Director of Software Engineering will be the technical leader of one of our Leagues. An ideal candidate is someone that enjoys the hands-on work of a day-to-day developer (coding, architecture, design, and problem solving) while also leading the teams, communicating closely with our executives, major systems level architecting and designing, and determine the best use of new technologies, all while maintaining a development culture that Grubhub can be proud of.


Responsibilities
Create major system level architecture and designs
Create a culture that strives for highly-available systems
Be a leader in new DB technologies that achieve our availability and extensibility goals
Lead multiple teams that are focused on creating cutting-edge products
Liase with our senior executives and communicate product updates
Create APIs that we are proud to externalize to the world
Manage teams across geographic boundaries (Chicago and NYC)
Manage dependencies from other Leagues and Teams
Positively contribute to design and architectural discussions in other Leagues

Requirements
10+ years of Software Development experience
4+ years of managing engineering teams
Expertise in agile and TDD, Kanban is a plus
Experience in ecommerce or another high availability, scalable industry
Ability to establish relationships with all levels of employee, up to our CEO
Ability to lead, hire, and retain a cross-functional team of fabulous individuals

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