Director of Platform Engineering (Remote) at Andela

About the role: 

We are searching for an experienced director of software development to lead a stellar group of software engineers working on a state of the art cloud based marketplace platform.

Responsibilities:

• Manage / lead multiple groups of high performance software development engineers responsible for core / platform software functionality that serves as foundational building blocks / modules to support application oriented scrum delivery teams.
• Formulate development plans for new initiatives and drive towards stellar execution every step of the way.
• Foster strong communications with peers and executive leadership to ensure all teams remain in sync on plans and execution status.
• Manage and execute against project plans and deliver with high quality in a dynamic start-up oriented fast paced engineering environment.
• Leverage on best practices in software development in ensuring crisp execution at high velocity optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Foster close working relationships across all engineering teams as well as outside groups including Product Management, Program Management, UX Design, and Data to ensure on time high quality deliverables.
• Team building: recruit, hire, mentor, and coach high caliber software development engineers and managers with demonstrated technical excellence in key software disciplines.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in a hands-on software development role with demonstrated accomplishments in executing successfully on complex / challenging software project initiatives.
• Experience managing software development teams in dynamic, high growth, innovative engineering environments with demonstrated leadership skills spanning project planning / execution, people management, best practices process, and technical excellence.  
• Experience managing managers in an innovative high performance software engineering development environment. 
• Experience managing projects in a dynamic high energy scrum team based agile environment.
• Experience in planning out complex software initiatives intended for demanding large mission-critical customer environments.
• Working knowledge of best-in-class engineering methodologies / process infrastructure leveraging Atlassian, Jira, and Confluence tool suites.