Director of Engineering

About HqO
As the leader in workplace experience technology, HqO is revolutionizing how people connect with each other and the places they work - right from the palm of their hands. Composed of an award-winning app, analytics suite, hybrid work tools, and a flex space management system, the HqO Workplace Experience Platform empowers top employers and commercial property teams to create personalized experiences that engage and delight the people at their properties and inform data-driven decision making. Active in over 200 million square feet and across 25 countries, 57% of the Fortune 100 rely on HqO to build meaningful relationships with the people in the workplace every day.
We're backed by some of the world's most prominent VC and real estate companies, and growing rapidly across the world. We're driven by our core values of Let's Go (Learning, Excellence, Truth, Speed, Goodness, Ownership) which define our culture and push us to do our best work every day. If you want to join a stable, fast-growing, and highly collaborative and supportive team that is at the forefront of workplace transformation, we're the company for you.
We build the digital experiences that elevate physical office space.
HqO has momentum and is looking to add the right talent to our strong, skilled team. We're a smart, mobile first company with an entrepreneurial culture and you can have a direct impact on the future of our business.
We engineer products for both consumers and enterprises that are equally critical to our value proposition. In addition, we are evolving our technology into a true global platform for integrating thousands of service providers to address the needs of this emerging space. It takes superior execution and problem-solving skills to make this work. This is where you come in.
As the successful candidate for this position, you will be involved throughout the engineering and operation of the HqO product suite, executing on B2C and B2B roadmaps while scaling through our platform evolution. You will manage a team of approximately 10-20 engineers including offshore contractors in close collaboration with Product Management to ensure cross-team transparency, communication, and effectiveness.
Responsibilities

• Manage, motivate, and mentor local engineers and offshore contractors, comprising multiple scrum teams, to maximize delivery velocity and quality
• Lead your teams in solving challenging problems drawing on your years of technical expertise
• Facilitate aspects of our Agile/Scrum development process including its continuous improvement
• Assist in release and deployment events, helping to ensure the best possible customer experience when the rubber meets the road
• Track objectives, dependencies, status, and results of a project portfolio spanning internationally distributed engineering teams
• Add to the spirit and culture that keeps our people happy, our team awesome, and HqO a great place to work

Qualifications

• Experience managing software development teams along with the critical soft skills of team building, motivating, mentoring, goal setting, and career planning. You also understand the importance of building relationships within and beyond your team
• Working knowledge of our tech stack which includes Node.js, React.js, React Native, and TypeScript
• Competency and experience with information security systems and data privacy
• You actively engage in projects, meetups, or other activities designed to maintain your skills
• Equal passions for execution excellence and seeing your work have an impact
• You strive to simplify and streamline and understand the needs of our customers are complex by nature
• Excellent written and oral communications are a must. While content is king, you understand that presentation matters as it reflects not only on you, but on the integrity and professionalism of our team as a whole
• You have a B.S. in C.S. or a related engineering discipline

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