Company Description
At Swym, we are on a mission to help retail brands craft a truly seamless omni-channel experience for their customers. Fueled by an accelerating shift to online retail, we are on an exciting growth path with over 40,000 merchants across 100+ countries using our products. Our fully remote team works hard, we work autonomously, collaborate async and take ownership of what we do. We operate at a significant scale, but given the size of the opportunity ahead of us, we are just scratching the surface - there is plenty left to do.
Role Description
We are looking for a strong, hands-on Director of Engineering to lead the engineering team working on some of our key strategic initiatives. In this role, in addition to leading our product development efforts, you'll have the opportunity to influence our business strategy and organizational culture, and to shape the future of a rapidly growing organization. You will own the software development life cycle from soup to nuts and ultimately be responsible for delivering a world-class product that our customers love. This is an extremely impactful role where you'll work closely with our leadership team to set direction and lead execution on major strategic and product initiatives for the company. With the chance to positively impact the shopping experience of millions of customers every day, and the privilege of leading and grooming a team of extremely talented and passionate engineers, you will have the potential to be truly career-defining! Come help us define the future of how consumers shop from their favorite brands.
You'd make an ideal candidate if you:
- get genuinely excited about leveraging technology to find simple solutions to really hard, complex problems
- have a passion for building world-class user experiences, combined with a vision to think big
- enjoy being hands-on, but also possess an innate ability to delegate when necessary and lead your team to accomplish amazingly impactful things
- have 10+ years of software development leadership experience, managing all aspects of a successful software development life cycle.
- have led implementations of large-scale distributed systems, building platform components that are used both internally and by external partners/customers
- have a proven track record of hiring, growing and retaining outstanding teams comprising both entry and mid-level engineering, architecture, and infrastructure resources
- have built processes to help scale products, platforms and teams for growth
- fancy being the underdog and cherish the opportunity to inspire your team and compete with the established leaders in your domain
- have had your share of failures and take pride in sharing the lessons you've learned from those experiences
Nice to haves
- Functional programming experience - You are a true believer in the value of functional programming and get excited by code that expresses an idea clearly. If you have prior experience with Clojure, that's awesome - but even if you don't and are excited about learning the language, we'd LOVE to chat.
- Machine Learning/Statistics - ML and AI are very core to what we are building, and this area is therefore hugely important to us. Any experience you bring in helping us build our personalization engine would be awesome, even if it's experience gained in an entirely different domain (it's probably better if it's a different domain).
- Profiling/Scaling/Performance Optimization - Architected, built and managed systems capable of handling massive scale.
- An eye for aesthetics - We are engineers with a deep love for aesthetics, so if you have something visually pleasing to show us from your past work, don't be shy, we love that stuff!
- Prior startup experience - Maybe you've been an early employee at another startup, or better yet, you've tried something on your own. That's awesome - let's talk!
