At WP Engine, you have the opportunity to work with innovative technologies and build tools that will impact thousands of customers. We are focused on building software that brings additional value to WP Engine by delivering high quality, incremental solutions regularly. As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading a team of talented engineers who are focused on building and automating tools on our platform and applications to make it more secure, highly scalable, and extremely reliable.

Working at the intersection of people and technology, you will play a huge role in mentorship and career development while also making strong technical decisions. We are looking for someone to continue evolving the architecture of our platform and applications—updating and expanding our already diverse and innovative technology stack--while also guiding a team of engineers and their roadmaps. As a Director of Engineering, being “Customer Inspired” is the key to keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals.

• You will serve as a senior leader who collaborates with product senior leaders and key business stakeholders to ensure the success of strategic business projects
• You will help deliver clear vision, direction and standards for the development team
• You will provide career development, coaching and performance management for engineering managers and engineers
• You will foster and maintain close relationships with the Product, Quality Engineering and Infrastructure Operations teams
• You will strive to ensure engineering is always adding business value and communicate the business goals to the engineers and keep them front and center
• You will help reinforce a great engineering culture which align to our core values
• You will constantly iterate on and improve the development process
• You will provide hands-on leadership for a development team, building and enhancing our applications in our service-oriented, highly scalable environment
• You will help ensure we keep the talent bar high and grow the skills and capabilities of your team as our engineering organization grows

• 7+ years experience in web applications development
• 10+ years experience managing development teams
• Proven track record for hiring great people and retaining talented engineers
• Ability to think from a business perspective and balance technical and business goals
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with Agile work processes and managing sprint cycles to ensure product ships on time and with quality
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery with an emphasis of shipping code rapidly to production and learning/iterating on the results
• Desire to work with other functional groups to solve tough business problems with quality software at scale
• Solid understanding of service-oriented and event-driven system architectures to be able to reinforce patterns and best practices
• A deep understanding of developing applications for massive scale and high-performance
• Experience working with global teams
• Proven ability to foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment, inspiring teams to achieve important goals together
• Strong ability to coach developers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers

• Compensation (We offer market competitive salaries)
• Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
• Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
• 401(k) (Make the most of retirement)
• Life and Disability Insurance (100% Paid Life, STD, LTD and AD&D)
• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
• Transportation (Downtown parking or commuter reimbursement)
• Lunch (Provided Monday – Thursday)
• Gym membership discount

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