Position: Head of Software engineering
Company: Echko
Category: Lead
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

You will be helping our development team members realize their true potential. As one of them, you will leverage your established technical know-how and commitment to individual growth to build high-performance teams that will be successful in delivering world-class products. You will set and hold high standards on your team and create conditions for each individual to be successful with short term and long term goals. You will strengthen relationships across the entire company and leverage these relationships as needed to unblock teams and deliver amazing products to users.


What will you be doing:

Researching and assisting in architecting solutions from the ground up
Build high quality, globally available, fault-tolerant systems and products
Work on problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items
Work with product, UX and other disciplines to discover the best solutions for our merchants
Be a technical influencer across the company. Provide technical direction through technical design reviews, GitHub pull requests and pair programming
Grow the team both through internal development and helping with external hiring


To be successful in this role you will need:

Proven technical leadership skills using technologies and frameworks including (but not limited to) Ruby on Rails, Node.js, ReactJS (or VueJS), and Python
Proven senior leadership skills
Experience building and successfully growing development teams
A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence, and results
Experience designing and developing APIs, and ideally developing your own app(s)


We are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.