Director of Engineering

| Greater NYC Area
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Away is a global lifestyle brand with a mission to transform travel through products and content that inspire people to get away more. In support of our mission, we are seeking a Director of Engineering to join our Engineering team. Want to help us transform the travel experience? The ideal candidate will have had experience leading and growing customer application engineering teams, provides technical mentorship to the engineering team while designing high level solutions for our eCommerce platform, and is a thought partner to our head of product management. You will report to the VP of Engineering, based in our New York City office.As a company that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, Away seeks individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to apply for this opportunity. We’re creating an environment where everyone can thrive. Our customers are global and diverse, so we’re building a team that is too. Through initiatives like our employee resource groups, anti-racism training, and bias prevention initiatives, we’re building the cultural foundation that gives people the emotional and physical space to bring their authentic selves to work.What you’ll do:

  • Collaborate with the product, UX, SRE and data engineering to develop and manage a robust product and technology roadmap
  • Serve as a technical leader, making key decisions for implementing platforms and products that scale
  • Cultivate a high energy, positive, customer focused, innovative and collaborative engineering culture
  • Recruit, hire, grow, and lead our core application engineering teams. We have an aggressive plan to double our engineering footprint this year, and you'll have a direct impact on that growth.
  • Debate questions on their merits, and express opposing viewpoints in ways that their advocates agree with
  • Empathise for the needs of engineers, the needs of customers, and the needs of the business. You are not an advocate for one of these - you are an advocate for all of them and must exercise judgment accordingly

Who you are:

  • Pragmatic eCommerce engineering leader who thinks in tradeoffs and works to understand the downsides of decisions you make before you make them
  • Engineering leader with minimum 3+ years leading teams at a Sr. Manager/Director level
  • Previously hands-on technically, with minimum 7+ years of developer experience, preferably in full stack development environments
  • Customer focused servant leader with a growth mindset and positive mindset
  • Experienced with developing engineering scope of work, setting the pace, identifying risk, and securing customer data
  • Experienced with Ruby on Rails/Python/Node, React/modern frontend frameworks, PostgreSQL, Heroku
  • Team player with a "no task is too small" attitude
  • Enjoys working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
  • Passionate about transforming travel (but that’s a given!)
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Away's HQ is in Soho, one of the liveliest neighborhoods in the NYC, with great restaurants, shopping, and easily accessible public transportation.

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