Engineering Leader - Infrastructure & Platform

Responsibilities

• Owning engineering practice, you are responsible for building and maintaining critical services and features
• Leading teams in planning, prioritization, tracking, through delivery of impactful results
• Supporting teams in achieving and preserving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and developer satisfaction
• Influencing partners and peers to identify obstacles to delivery and improve on our products while eliminating friction and redundancies
• Make data driven decisions on your sphere of ownership to continually improve reliability, performance, scale, and reduce operational load
• Diving deep into software architecture, leveraging domain knowledge to achieve business objectives.
• Recruiting exceptional engineers and managers in collaboration with Candid’s talent acquisition team
• Mentor and coach your direct reports and those around you, working with your peers to create healthy and well-executing teams that grow with equal velocity to the business

Qualifications

• B.S. or B.A in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree.
• 6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position, as a Senior Manager, or Manager of Managers.
• Track record of successfully leading people and teams to build scalable and reliable distributed systems; including teams focused on Data and Infrastructure engineering.
• Demonstrated excellence in technical decision making; you know the right architecture and patterns to build functional, durable, and maintainable product.
• You know how to manage in multiple directions, including laterally and upward: you know how to advocate for yourself and your team: where to get into the weeds and where to delegate.
• You have successfully interviewed, hired, and mentored product focused engineering teams. You collaborate well with staffing partners and stakeholders through all phases of the hiring lifecycle and are a talent magnet.
• You’re a clear and concise communicator; you enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing.
• You are based in (or willing to relocate to) one of the following areas: Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA.

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