Requirements

• Proactive and opinionated, tackling challenges head-first and leading action beyond strict remit to achieve goals.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring software engineers, supporting their growth and success.
• Strong product and customer mindset with experience building customer-facing products; partnership in Product Discovery and multiple hat-wearing (Product, Design, Analytics).
• Strong technical expertise in OOP languages such as Java and modern technology stacks; comfortable with hands-on coding and guiding the team.
• Experience working with Frontend and/or Mobile engineers.
• Experience building distributed, high scalability systems, event-driven, asynchronous, and microservice architectures; adept at decoupling systems without disrupting business continuity.
• Experience in domains promoting virality and complex user interactions (e.g., referrer-referee, social media sharing, seller-buyer interactions).
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Thrives in collaborative environments and has experience working effectively with cross-functional teams such as data science, designers, product managers, and analysts.

What you'll be doing

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of driven engineers to support their growth and empower high performance.
• Collaborate closely with Product Manager and team to shape roadmap and set technical and product vision focusing on customer reach, ease of advocacy, and recognition for referrals.
• Own technical strategy and delivery of referral and word of mouth platform; architect for scale and resilience empowering flexible incentivized campaigns and guiding referred customers.
• Ensure team is well-resourced, able to plan effectively, and supported to deliver on roadmap commitments.
• Maintain close involvement with tech and product, leading by example with high quality standards.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement; maintain health and productivity of engineers.
• Manage hiring, growth, and development of team and its impact within the company.
• Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Regional, and other product teams to launch new incentives and campaigns tailored to different use cases and markets.
• Maintain overview of wider Scalable Growth area and consider engineering as a whole, enabling other teams to build on the platform and tooling.
• Understand team’s systems deeply to be hands-on when needed and participate in on-call rotation for critical services.