Teespring (YC W13) Is Hiring a Director of Engineering
ABOUT TEESPRING:

Teespring is a commerce platform that empowers anyone to design and sell products that people love. Its world-class platform powers all aspects of bringing merchandise to life from production and manufacturing to supply chain, logistics, and customer service. By unlocking commerce for everyone, Teespring is creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs, influencers, community organizers, and anyone who rallies communities around particular causes or specific passions.

A graduate of the Winter 2013 class Y-Combinator and backed by Andreesen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, Teespring launched in 2012 and has helped its users sell over 7 million shirts in more than 80 countries. In 2014, 1 in 75 people in the US purchased a Teespring product! The Operations Software Development Team is focused on building, enhancing and scaling Teespring’s custom state-of-the-art operations and fulfillment systems as well as integrating with our worldwide fulfillment partners.

OVERVIEW:

Your goal is to continue growing our A level team while we expand internationally, add new products and move from a monolithic to a Service Oriented Architecture. You’ll do this by implementing a high bar interviewing process, providing teams with increasingly challenging work, guiding our adoption of Pair Programming and BDD, maintaining a healthy SCRUM methodology, researching and integrating emerging technologies for speed and efficiency, keeping a daily release cadence and continuously improving our cross functional organization strategy.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

-BS in Computer Science, or equivalent
-Deep understanding of MVC web architecture
-Mastery of at least 2 stacks (Ruby on Rails, LAMP, Java, .Net)
-7+ or more years of software development, 2+ years in a technical lead role with direct management experience
-Ability to break down, estimate and prioritize user stories
-Experience working directly with recruiting, writing job postings and reviewing candidate resumes
-SCRUM, XP or other Agile development experience.
-Ability to work across the organization and outside the company to solve complex, distributed problems
-Experience with developing a team of engineers: coaching, mentoring, 1-1s, and performance management
-Experience integrating with 3rd party services into code, reporting and alerting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

-Experience with Ruby, Rails, BDD, TDD, Flow, MySQL, Sidekick, Redis
-Project management tools - Pivotal, Trello, Leankit, SCRUM
-Solid understanding of database/schema design
-Experience supporting 24/7 services

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Lead a team of 8-12 engineers to develop features and technologies across the Teespring stack
-Actively participate in day to day development, architecture and project planning
-Recruit and interview new engineering candidates
-Mentor and lead career growth for both junior and senior engineers
-Collaborate with multiple company stakeholders to develop products
-Maintain feature release cadence, engineering roadmaps
-Create a culture of ownership and excellence
-Own and improve team effectiveness, code, standards and product quality
-Maintain high availability, reliability and performance across the application

COMPETENCIES:

Interpersonal Savvy and Communication
-Collaborative Team Player
-Problem Solving
-Initiative
-Organizational / Cultural Awareness
-Attention to Detail
-Organization and Time Management

BENEFITS AND PERKS:

Teespring offers competitive compensation and a generous benefits & perks package to all full-time employees including:

-Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
-Company contributions toward Health Savings Accounts (HSA) accounts
-Liberal paid time off (in the first year!)
-9 Paid holidays
-Generous stock options
-Daily company-provided catered lunch and abundant snacks
-Prolific FUN with monthly social activities, game room, and endless free t-shirts!