Engineering Director

Ibotta is looking for an Engineering Director to lead our team in building something great while influencing stability and quality of the technology. At Ibotta, our engineering team is organized cross-functionally by squads that build remarkable products for the company, including the platform powering our app that is used by millions of consumers. We’re looking for a director eager to drive a strong engineering vision, lead multiple teams, and scale the organization while fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado or with the option of full-time remote. Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Develop and deploy new strategies for building a highly engaged development organization that delivers predictably and in line with our emerging customer needs.

• Inspire and mobilize individuals and teams to achieve results.

• Ensure timely delivery of engineering solutions to meet business needs while providing a transparent view to progress.

• Communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team. 

• Collaborate across functional areas to define and prioritize technical solutions that support business needs, efficiencies, and revenue.

• Partner with Product Management and Architecture to prioritize, scope, and plan business milestones and set goals.

• Foster an organization that understands how to balance technical debt vs. feature delivery.

• Coach and develop engineering managers; address technical, resource, and personnel issues.

• Support technical innovation and lead the creation, continual refinement, and active enforcement of our development standards to ensure that our technology enables a sustainable competitive advantage.

• Build an organization with appropriately high technical competence that strives for excellence.

• Research new technologies to stay abreast of industry trends and standards. 

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & A great idea can come from anywhere.

Here is what we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of engineering management experience.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Experience managing managers, and leading multiple teams.

• Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders including customers, senior management, and other business leaders.

• Skilled at agile software development and management.

• Has had exposure to multiple languages and frameworks as either an engineer or manager.

• Experienced with security, cost, performance, scale, and reliability strategies.

• Highly effective performance manager and comfortable managing team members with different skill sets and technical expertise.

• Motivated by a fast-paced and adapting environment.

• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication.

• Has worked with cloud-based data architectures and platforms (AWS preferred) and experience with DevOps culture. DevSecOps is a plus.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and platforms is a strong plus.

• Understanding native mobile app development and frontend web development is a great extra!

About Us:

Built in Denver, CO, Ibotta, Inc. ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping app that gives users cash back on groceries and more. Through our partnerships with brands and retailers like Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Uber, we’ve delivered over $1.25B in cumulative cash rewards to our Savers. Guided by our values and our mission to make every purchase rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we get to build, and the people we get to innovate (and have fun) with. Ibotta made Inc.’s 2020 list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO or with the option of full-time remote and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, 401k match, and equity. 

• Base compensation range: $170,000 - $180,000. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component in addition to base compensation. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience. This range does not apply to Canada or Mexico. 

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard with race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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