Senior Director, Engineering

We're searching for a Senior Director, Engineering to join our engineering leadership team and play a crucial role in shaping our technological foundation. This is not your typical Director role - you'll be a hands-on leader with the experience to guide multiple teams. You will lead a team and work directly with product and engineering leaders in helping to shape and define market-leading solutions in the face of ambiguous requirements. You will have influence and oversight over building cutting-edge consumer software and the rock-solid backend to power it all.

You will:

• Work with a passionate, smart and ambitious team of engineers who built large scale systems at Uber, AirBnB, Facebook and Google (https://www.bolt.com/team).
• Take ownership of your own projects while pairing with mentors.
• Defining the technical vision of Bolt Products
• Design and build mission critical systems, products and solutions that companies and consumers alike will rely heavily on. 
• Lead a small team of Engineering Managers each with their own team of direct reports
• Contribute cross stack and learn a wide variety of skills and technologies.
• Oversee teams in the US and abroad
• Work with production systems and on-call processes.
• Learn from and help shape our company's engineering culture.

Technologies we use:

• Golang
• GraphQL
• Docker / Kubernetes 
• Amazon Web Services
• Typescript / React 
• Terraform
• Major Ecommerce platforms

About you:

• 12+ years of professional engineering experience building consumer grade applications, ideally at a scaled startup
• 7+ years of experience as an influential technical leader at a business or business unit level
• Clearly able to articulate both the what and how of operational excellence
• Experience providing technical oversight and direction for multiple engineering teams in a space building products for consumers at scale 
• Experience architecting solutions for routing and rendering content at the infrastructure level, comfortable using tools like DNS, load balancers, and CDN
• Experience in data platforms and machine learning is a plus, but not required
• Are curious and passionate about technology
• Believe in our values
• Are excited about jumping into any area of technology
• Have strong communication skills

Estimated cash compensation: $300-$370k DOE, plus equity

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