At Media Temple, we are on a mission to provide premium web hosting and cloud services to web developers, designers, digital entrepreneurs and innovators, to help them bring their ideas to life online. We don’t just consume cloud technologies, our Software Developers are building the next generation of cloud technologies and services for our customers. Our people are what make our company and our products extraordinary, and we are always looking for bright minds to join our team.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead product-focused, multi-functional, agile development teams, building products and features that will be used by new and existing customers. We take a customer-first approach toward building creative, user-friendly, secure, scalable, and reliable products. You will be joining a team that is passionate about adding customer value quickly by using continuous delivery methods and standard methodologies...your team’s code gets to customers early and often.
Responsibilities:
Build and lead a growing team of high-performing engineers by providing strong leadership engagement for both career guidance and technical vision for the product and platform.
Drive design and development of globally distributed services to provide next generation customer experiences as well as maintenance of existing products.
Performs day-to-day management, project management, intergroup communication, quarterly and annual performance evaluations, and management by objective (MBO) planning and assessments.
Gathers and synthesizes project requirements, develops project implementation plans, leads cross-team interaction & guides projects through the full development life cycle.
Consults with other departments on project status, proposals, and/or technical issues.
Consults with engineering/architecture staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, develop specifications and performance requirements.
Engage with engineers & partners across GoDaddy family to solve problems with broad impact (from group-wide to company-wide impact).
Work closely with experts across disciplines to design and implement very high quality code.
Promotes cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables.
Requirements:
Experience leading a high-functioning, highly agile teams of engineers that delivers scalable cloud experiences on web and/or native mobile platforms.
Validated ability to lead staff of senior software engineers.
Experience with software engineering practices and standard methodologies for the full software development process coupled with a passion to develop elegant yet pragmatic solutions to solve real-world business scenarios
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong desire to learn and to grow and to coach engineers to do the same through feedback, instruction, and encouragement.
Effectively liaises across departments to accomplish tasks and projects.
Shown ability to understand complex distributed systems.
Ability to work independently, lead own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals.
Confirmed ability to understand complex distributed systems.
Proficiency with Python, Perl, PHP, Java or any other object oriented programming language.
Proficiency in Linux environments.
9+ years of industry experience designing, building, and shipping software.
5+ years of experience as a lead or people manager.
BS/MS in computer science, MIS, or equivalent.
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