Director of Engineering

About the Outdoorsy team

Outdoorsy transformed access to the outdoors with the launch of its online travel marketplace in 2015. Today, Outdoorsy's partnership with its hosts has resulted in over 6 million days of travel through RV rentals available in 4,800 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Outdoorsy's hospitality ecosystem provides life-changing financial benefits for RV owners and offers guests the trust and guidance they crave to create memorable travel experiences. Outdoorsy's team is inspired by a mission to restore our relationship with the outdoors and each other by helping guests 'Bring The Outside In'. For more information, visit www.outdoorsy.com

About the Role

You will be a technical leader overseeing several engineering sprint teams as they design, build, improve, and maintain our core products. In this role you will be largely hands off but should be close enough to our technology to troubleshoot complex problems, perform code review, and provide expert guidance to teams regarding system design.

Requirements

Your work at Outdoorsy:

• You collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams to produce high quality, resilient, useful, and secure products
• You ensure delivery of team commitments via leadership and mentorship
• Drive your teams to create specs, diagrams, and decision documents
• Work on strategic projects to reduce costs, increase quality, leverage a new tool or supplier, or decide on a new process.
• Communicate with a vendor to troubleshoot an existing integration
• Drive architectural decisions with an eye towards scalability, reuse, security, performance, and availability
• Align team resources and processes with strategic goals of our products and company
• Work with team leads on team leadership and team building. Take an active interest in building the careers of team members.

What you will bring to the table:

• Creative problem solver with a bias towards action
• 7+ years of experience
• Small company or startup experience is a plus
• Previous team leadership
• An ability and desire to be hands on
• Experience with our stack is plus
  • GCP/AWS
  • iOS / Android / Go / React
  • Postgres / MySQL / Elasticsearch

Impact plan

• Demonstrates competency in the relevant technologies and tools in our products and development environment
• Your teams consistently deliver on their commitments and are focused on continuous improvement
• Increasing the technical competence of your sprint teams including technical skill growth via great hiring, training, mentoring, and building a culture of learning.
• Leads by example and lives our principles.
• Advises on strategic decisions, budget, and organizational structure of the entire engineering team.
• Accountable for the delivery of the broader engineering organization. Including non feature based work on security, compliance, privacy, high availability, resiliency, cost effectiveness, and organizational health.

Benefits

Benefits & Perks:

• Opportunity to help build company from early stage
• Competitive salary
• Equity in one of the world's fastest growing companies
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) Match
• Flexible PTO
• Annual RV rentals - we believe in balance and taking the time to nourish mind, body, and soul

Salary: $180,000 - $210,000 DOE

We continue to have our home and headquarters in Austin, Texas, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States and globally. While some roles may require proximity to our Austin office, roles based outside of our Austin office can sit in any of the following 21 US states: AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, MN, MO, MT, NV, OH, OK, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA and WV. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

The expected compensation range for this position is displayed in accordance with potentially applicable laws. The final agreed-upon compensation is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to: individual education, qualifications, prior work experience, and geographic work location. The total annual compensation package may consist of a base salary and bonus dependent upon position.

It is the policy of Outdoorsy Holdings, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. This policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, employment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, reduction of workforce and termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, the use of all facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored employee activities.