Requirements

• Proactive and opinionated with a track record of tackling challenges head-first and transforming teams’ ways-of-working.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers, supporting their growth and success.
• Strong product and customer mindset; experience building customer-facing products and partnering effectively with Product Managers.
• Technical expertise in OOP languages such as Java and modern technology stacks; comfortable diving into code to assist the team.
• Experience working with Frontend and/or Mobile engineers.
• Experience building distributed, high scalability systems using event-driven, asynchronous, and microservice architectures.
• Experience decoupling systems without disrupting business continuity.
• Knowledge of promoting virality among users and managing complex interactions (e.g., referrer-referee, social media sharing, seller-buyer).
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Thrives in collaborative environments and works effectively with cross-functional teams including data science, design, product management, and analytics.

What you'll be doing

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers, supporting their growth and empowering high performance.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to shape roadmap and technical/product vision focused on reaching customers, enabling advocacy, and rewarding recommendations.
• Own technical strategy and delivery of referral and word of mouth platforms, including hands-on development and architecting for scale and resilience.
• Ensure the team is well-resourced, plans effectively, and delivers on roadmap commitments.
• Maintain high standards for tech quality and lead by example, while staying involved in tech and product details.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Manage hiring, growth, and development of the engineering team and their impact at the company.
• Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Regional teams, and other product groups to develop incentives and campaigns for different use cases and markets.
• Maintain awareness of the broader Scalable Growth space and support platform/tooling usage by other teams.
• Stay hands-on when needed and participate in the team's on-call rotation for critical services.