Position: Director of Engineering
Company: ZaeLab
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

Who Are You?
Zaelab is seeking the best talent across the globe. Our values are the most important driver of how we behave and build an amazing culture.

Bolstering Results - You care deeply about delivering the Results that matter most to our clients and internal teams. You emphasize the outcome and find the right path to achieve the desired Results. 

Operate Efficiently - You don’t accept the status quo. You’re constantly planning and replanning to find a faster and more efficient approach to getting from A to B.

Lead Exceptional Experiences - You realize experience, content, and communication can never be good enough, but must be presented in an exceptional way. 

Deliver Quality Service - Like a fine dining experience, you realize we are in the services business. We must treat our clients and employees with the highest levels of service and make it memorable.

The Role
As Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading Software Engineering Managers and Leads who are building engaging customer experience for eCommerce stores around the world. You’ll be part of a team that is delivering large and complex projects to clients in different industries on several platforms. This role is pivotal in Zaelab’s aim and ability to have the most talented Engineers in the industry delivering quality digital commerce projects to meet and exceed client expectations.
In this position, you will help secure cross-department resources, manage trade-offs for delivery, keep stakeholders accountable, meet deadlines, communicate at the executive level on project status and risk, and measure team impact and needs. If you thrive in helping Engineers succeed and grow, then this is for you.


Your Responsibilities
Lead and manage multiple teams of software engineers and Engineering Managers
Participate in recruiting process to attract world-class talent
Manage and act as mentor and coach for Engineering Managers within the area, assist in their professional growth
Partner with Leadership Team to solve problems, work on strategy, and architecture approaches for product development
Participate in client stand-up
Lead and contribute to engineering wide initiatives focusing on improving our ways of performing while scaling the business

Your Success Will Be Measured By:
Success of the managers meeting retention, hiring, and utilization
Meeting 50% utilization
Creating a career path for direct reports
Hitting target goals for projects

Your Experience
Experience in managing and growing both early career and senior engineers
Experience with either JavaScript frameworks - Angular, React, or Vue.js or backend framework Java, Spring
Can rapidly earn the trust of a technically adept team through your rare mix of intelligence, charisma, integrity, and technical skills
Focus on maximizing impact, for yourself and your team
Ability to provide valuable input to any technical or product discussion such as design documentation and white-boarding sessions
Kind and intellectually mature
Experience with agile/scrum process and continuous deployment
Good verbal and written English communication skills
Troubleshoot and solve technical issues as needed
Consistently deliver high-quality products on time
Nice to have eCommerce experience
Nice to have SAP Hybris experience
Comfortable researching and adopting new web technologies

The Benefits
Competitive Compensation
Annual Bonus Program