Director of Frontend Engineering & Team Growth

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing technology company is seeking an engineering leader to support and grow front-end development teams in Boston. The role involves managing change and helping engineers succeed while fostering a culture of empowerment and learning. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in web applications and team leadership. The position is currently remote but will transition to on-site in Boston as the team develops.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building and leading web development teams.
• Ability to ask questions and build consensus.
• Commitment to empowering teams and achieving results.

Responsibilities

• Support and grow front-end and web development teams.
• Manage change and iterate on processes as the team expands.
• Help engineers to be effective and successful.

Skills

Team leadership in web applications

Communication skills

Servant leadership

Data-driven decision making

Collaboration

Job description

We are building products that empower engineering organizations to become as valuable and effective as possible. By leveraging the data from tools and practices that engineering teams already use, we help engineering leaders to align their decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software, efficiently, on time. We’re solving a real-world problem that people have today, and our growth is testament to the market potential.

As part of our engineering team growth, we are hiring a new engineering leader to support front-end and web development-centric engineers across our two delivery teams. You will be responsible for supporting and growing the team, managing change as we grow further (including iterating on our processes and how we work, splitting off new teams, etc), and helping each of the engineers on your team to be as effective and successful as possible.

We're a small team today, growing into a larger team over the coming months and years. There's a lot of work to do, and we'd love your help.

Who you are:

• • You have strong experience building and leading teams developing web applications, including shaping team structures and ways of working (as opposed to executing someone else's process)
  • You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
  • You are a committed servant leader, focused on enabling and empowering teams and people to achieve big results
  • You love learning new things and teaching others what you know
  • You are excited about data, and measuring and quantifying the things that make successful engineering teams
  • You have outstanding communication and collaboration skills

Bonus points if:

• • You have led engineering teams at a growing startup in the past, and loved it
  • You have a strong technical background in front-end web development

Location:on-site in Boston (theoretically; but remote for the near term)

We believe that it takes a diverse team to build the best company we can. We welcome people from all backgrounds and especially encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in the software industry.