Recast is looking for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial director of engineering to help us accelerate our engineering and product development practice.
What you'll do in your first 6 months:
- Get to know our team of nine highly experienced software engineers – start one-on-ones and build development plans for each of them
- Develop and (start to) implement a medium-term engineering roadmap that accelerates product velocity while reinforcing our core infrastructure
- Help us rapidly grow our software engineering team while still keeping the quality bar high and maintaining a culture of product and engineering excellence in the team
- Own our tech security practice and SOC 2 certification and compliance program
Things that should excite you that might scare off other folks:
- Working across a range of technologies – from Rails to AWS & k8s infrastructure, to running #rlang in production
- Working with a fully-remote and globally distributed engineering team across a variety of timezones
- Working with a large number of direct reports – we’re a flat organization and we plan to keep it that way
Familiarity with the following would be nice to have, but aren’t required:
- AWS and/or cloud-first architectures
- Kubernetes and distributed compute generally
- Building products with data science / machine learning / algorithmic components
What we offer you:
- Work wherever you’re happiest. We're fully remote
- Competitive remote salary along with early-stage equity
- Highly skilled coworkers you can learn from and who are eager to learn from you
- An async-first culture with a focus on documentation over standing meetings
- Autonomy and support to do your best work in your own time
- Your local holidays plus unmetered PTO (minimum 2 weeks mandatory PTO!)
As our director of engineering you’ll be leading our full engineering organization made up of three subteams: app developers, R developers, and infrastructure / platform engineering. The Recast product and delivery model is very complex and so shipping features often require fairly intense inter-team collaboration to provision compute, develop algorithms, and then present something human-usable to our end customers.
Note: Recast is committed to building a diverse team so if you are from an under-represented background in tech (e.g., women, BIPOC, etc.) please apply even if you don’t necessarily check all of the boxes here.
While Recast is officially based in the US, we're a fully remote team (one founder lives in Brooklyn, the other in Mexico City and team members in 6+ countries around the world).
If this sounds interesting to you, we'd love to learn more about you! If you have examples of contributions to publicly available and widely used R packages, we highly value that so please make sure to include it in your application!
