Director of Engineering

🌎 About Us
At TeamSnap, we believe when the world connects through sports; the world becomes better. TeamSnap is a sports and communication platform dedicated to taking the work out of play in youth sports. We also believe our jobs should excite us, our teammates should support us and our bosses should inspire us. We empower our people to bring big ideas and tiny egos, landing us on Outside Magazine’s list of “Best Places to Work '' and Built In’s “100 Best Remote-First Places to Work”.

TeamSnap is seeking a people-centric, technical Director of Engineering who will provide compelling people, process and technology partnership to our TeamSnap for Business teams. The candidate should be data-driven, customer-obsessed, and have a strong sense of accountability, working cross-functionally with product, design, marketing, and analytics teams to develop and launch high-quality products that meet business objectives and user needs.

What You'll Do:

• Day-to-day management and leadership of engineers with varied backgrounds in terms of skills and experience levels, including 1:1 coaching/mentoring, career planning & development, goal setting, and performance management.
• Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with cross-functional stakeholders to determine project deliverables and define the development roadmap
• Take ownership of continuous improvement in the team's development process, coding, architecture, and overall performance while also ensuring alignment with the engineering department's overall standards and processes
• Planning and executing strategies for completing projects. This includes facilitating agile ceremonies, defining and keeping a pulse on health metrics for your team(s), and reporting progress broadly.
• Empowers engineers to progress the architecture and identify critical areas to pay down tech debt. Provides guidance and feedback on Technical Key Initiatives.
• Develop and socialize resourcing plans that support the engineering leaders in making project resourcing and overall team scaling and evolution decisions
• Ensure software engineers adhere to development standards and best practices
• Rally the team to feel fired up and inspired! You’ll empower the team to succeed with code, tooling, processes, information, and help from others. You’ll also consistently and systemically help teammates do their best work.
• Drive shared ownership of quality through testing, operational practices, and playbooks for owned scope areas while also contributing to engineering-wide goals, priorities, and improvements.
• Contribute to engineering-wide goals, priorities, and improvements.

What Will Set You Up for Success:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineers of all levels while serving as a role model for an inclusive engineering culture
• 5+ years of experience managing managers
• A passion for Engineering Excellence
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in analytics tools and a track record of using insights to drive
• Proficiency in a widely-used programming language
• Experience working across cross-functional and end-user-facing teams to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.

Bonus Points:

• Proficiency in at least one of our core languages (Typescript, Elixir, Go)
• Experience working on B2B products

Got cold feet? If you’re thinking you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. We’re all humans with special talents that go beyond what’s listed here.

Compensation
We’re committed to equitable compensation for all TeamSnappers. The minimum starting point for this role is $225,250 inclusive of base and bonus, with comp updated based on multiple factors. Our comp is highly competitive in our space and we adjust overall comp based on relevant experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

🖥 Location
TeamSnap is a fully remote company, so you need to be very comfortable working with people who aren’t in the same time zone as you. We are always expanding, but there is a small list of states we do not hire in at the moment, including Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and South Dakota and while we love all parts of the world, we can only hire permanent US residents at this time.

🚀 Opportunities to Grow
At TeamSnap, you're not a culture fit, you're a culture add. We work hard to provide a culture of trust, accountability, inclusivity, and boundless opportunities to grow, along with the chance to make a lasting impact and have some fun while doing it.

🎩 Total Rewards
We're proud to be remote-first. We've been working remotely since 2009, long before COVID made it cool

• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for ALL parents (not just primary or secondary)
• 100% premium coverage of medical/dental/vision for you and your family
• 401K to help you invest for the future
• $1,500 annual learning and development stipend
• Travel to fun locations for all-company meetings and team events
• Generous home office allowance to set you up for success
• TeamSnap Swag to keep you looking sharp
• Monthly stipend for health & wellness and much more!

🧡 Inclusion and Diversity
Creativity and innovation can't thrive when we're cookie-cutter images of each other. We’re quickly growing more diverse, but there's always room for improvement. We are committed to inclusion and diversity at TeamSnap and this includes four employee resource groups: Women, People of Color, LGBTQIA+, and the Talent Acquisition Task Force, designed to reduce unconscious biases in our hiring practices. We hold ourselves accountable in building an environment where everyone feels valued. If you need any disability-related adaptation during the recruitment process, just let us know! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.