Director, Software Engineering

What you’ll do

Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures

Strong knowledge with Python, Java, Angular JS, Google Cloud (or similar Cloud experience), Kubernetes, airflow, Jenkins, Jira Confluence, Google Fire Store, Big Table and Data concepts.

Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC

Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners

Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed

Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale

Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters

Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure

Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS

Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers

Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions

Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs

Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams

Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices

Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books

Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions

Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

What experience you need  

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

7+ years of software engineering experience

3+ years experience (hands-on) with Python, Java, Angular JS, Google Cloud (or similar Cloud experience), Kubernetes, airflow, Jenkins, Jira Confluence, Google Fire Store, Big Table and Data concepts.

3+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS

7+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure

7+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions

7+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes

7+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

What could set you apart

Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

Strong communication and presentation skills

Strong leadership qualities

Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts

Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps

Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets

Working in a highly regulated environment

Experience designing and developing  big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others

UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)

Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices 

Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.

Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)

Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)

Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)

Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)

Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.