Director of Engineering
YieldStreet has a large, complex and expanding technology platform, with a world class, global engineering team. We are looking for a strong engineering leader with a deep passion for technology and a proven record of leading strong technical teams to build innovative, category-creating products. Technological innovation is the great enabler for our mission to change the world of wealth management and make it accessible to all. Core to this mission is the design, creation and shipping of engaging desktop and mobile applications that delight and captivate investors, and help them navigate the complex and often confusing world of structured finance. Our product and design team has a stellar track record of imagining and designing experiences to do just that. Your role will be to manage and oversee the engineering team that bring these experiences to life.
What you'll do
- First and foremost, be a strong leader and nurturer of engineering talent.
- Work with product and technology leadership to retain and continuously groom a strong engineering culture.
- Provide air cover to the engineering team to enable them to do their best, and then some.
- Cultivate an environment of inclusion and collaboration. Engineers can do a lot more than code. Provide them the space to do it.
- Be a mentor and guide to the engineering team, grooming future leaders and ensuring the team members have the space to grow professionally.
- Be a master of process. No single software development process works everywhere. Continuously refine our software development with a goal of maximizing impact in a measurable way.
- In collaboration with product leadership, maintain and groom a strong backlog of innovative products and features.
- Work cross-collaboratively with stakeholders across the organization, including product, growth, investor relations, investments and finance, to ensure that we are working on the highest value, highest impact products and features and provide clarity and context to the engineering teams.
- Work with the CTO and CPO to do capacity and resource planning as we scale the engineering organization
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience managing and scaling engineering teams in a distributed environment
- An eye for finding talent, and an aptitude to be a mentor to the talent you find
- Ability to break down complexity and provide guidance to the team on architecture and process
- Vision and experience to visualize a product at scale, and define a growth plan to meet that scale
- An engineering mindset and readiness to jump in and get your hands dirty if needed
- Hands-on experience in the YieldStreet technology stack: React/React-Native, Java, relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), transient and persistent NoSQL stores (Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB), and message brokers (Kafka)
- Familiarity with the AWS cloud computing environment (bonus points for containerized deployments like Docker and Kubernetes)
- Ability to clearly communicate product decisions and the rationale behind them, tailoring your verbal and written communications to your audience
- Excellent organizational skills and proven ability to lead through influence rather than direct authority
Bonus point for
- Experience building consumer financial products
- Microservice architectures, Akka and the Play framework
- Leading offshore or nearshore engineering teams
- Experience building CI/CD toolchains like Ansible and Jenkins
About YieldStreet
YieldStreet is disrupting the trillion-dollar lending and investment industry. We recently raised $178m in financing from world-class venture capitalists to help us scale. Our investor demand is soaring, and our team is expected to double in size this year. Do you have what it takes to join a booming startup that is changing the investment industry?
We're building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. YieldStreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Real Estate, Marine, Legal, Art & Commercial. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.
Benefits
This is an opportunity to work with a group of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B, and we get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites in our work hard/play hard culture. We're located in a beautiful new office in Midtown, our building is close to most major subway lines.
About YieldStreet
YieldStreet is disrupting the trillion-dollar lending and investment industry. We recently raised $178m in financing from world-class venture capitalists to help us scale. Our investor demand is soaring, and our team is expected to double in size this year. Do you have what it takes to join a booming startup that is changing the investment industry?
We're building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. YieldStreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Real Estate, Marine, Legal, Art & Commercial. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.
Benefits
We offer an attractive market compensation and benefits package including a competitive base salary, bonus opportunity, stock option plan, health, dental & vision benefits, life insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited paid vacation, sabbatical and paid holidays and that's before you even step in the office!
This is an opportunity to work with a group of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B, and we get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites in our work hard/play hard culture. We're located in a beautiful new office in Midtown, our building is close to most major subway lines.