At Simplify360, it's more than just work. Redefine the future of customer experiences. One conversation at a time.
Simplify360 is now a Nextiva company. Together, Nextiva and Simplify360 are changing the game with a first-of-its-kind, conversation-centric platform that unifies team collaboration and customer experience in one place. Powered by AI, built by amazing humans.
Our culture is forward-thinking, customer-obsessed and built on an unwavering belief that connection fuels business and life.
If you're ready to collaborate and create with amazing people, let your personality shine and be on the frontlines of helping businesses deliver amazing experiences, you're in the right place.
Build Amazing - Deliver Amazing - Live Amazing - Be Amazing
We are dedicated to providing world-class customer experience solutions for businesses. As we scale our workforce and sharpen our product focus, we're looking for a visionary engineering leader to drive our Small Business initiative.
As the Director of Engineering, you will be at the forefront of developing resilient, scalable, and highly performant services designed to elevate customer engagement for small businesses. This role requires a unique blend of strategic vision, technical expertise, and people management skills to deliver exceptional cloud-based communication products. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic team culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, and bold decision-making.
In this role, you will deliver an amazing impact to our business and community with solid innovation and cutting-edge technology. You should have a passion for people management, strong architectural and operational knowledge for internet scale systems, and obsession for customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technology, architecture, engineering, and operations efforts for Nextiva's Communication Cloud, specifically tailored to small businesses
- Build and manage multiple full-stack engineering teams to create a world-class development organization focused on customer experiences
- Collaborate with Product Management peers to drive hypothesis-driven product development using agile methodologies
- Ensure the delivery of trustworthy (secure, reliable, and compliant) and supportable (scalable, easy to debug, extensible) solutions
- Act as a mentor and coach, embodying company values while fostering an inclusive, fun, and supportive environment where every team member can be and do their best
- Dig into technical details while managing the bigger picture of product delivery. Drive an engineering rhythm so that the team operates at a high level, knowledge is shared appropriately, and smooth execution is facilitated
- Spend a part of your time being hands on with the architecture and code your team builds and ensure the right quality
- Work with the leadership team to define success metrics and drive strategy initiatives and provide thought leadership
- Be a keen representative of the Nextiva culture and leadership principles and have a positive impact on team morale and work environment
- A desire to learn,a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of adversity, see failures as essential to learning, find lessons and inspiration in the success of others
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of software engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management building holistic web-based software solution, API design, and interactions between servers and clients
- 5+ years experience coding in one of the following languages: C++, JS, Java, Python and/or PHP
- Knowledge of real time Communication protocols like webRTC and/or SIP
- Work closely with our PM and design teams to define feature specifications and build the next generation of products leveraging frameworks such as React & React Native
- Full stack web/mobile application development with a variety of coding languages
- Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
- Be a subject matter expert in a product domain
- Lead teams that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous or high-impact area
- Work with your team and cross functional partners to define and influence strategy
- Drive roadmap creation and execution
- Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives, and have an impact at an organizational level
- Lead and participate in technical design
- Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
- Work effectively with cross functional partners and stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes
- Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution, and prioritization
Simplify360 India Private Limited (a Nextiva Group Company)
