\n\n\nHuman Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. \n\nNearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future. Too often it’s because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.\n\nWe’re a high-growth tech company changing the retirement industry. We’ve raised $500M and are backed by leading investors. Most recently, by funding from BlackRock as well as many other top investors: TPG (The Rise Fund) with SoftBank led our Series D, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.\n\nJoin our amazing Engineering team\n\nOur engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience. \n\n\n* We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.\n\n* We help each other be better engineers, ensuring we leave things better than we found them.\n\n* We are customer-focused, ensuring our software improves the customer experience.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the role\n\nIn this impactful, hands-on senior technical leadership role, you will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. You will provide technical guidance and mentorship, define and refine our architecture, processes, and best practices. Collaborating with domain experts and engineers, you will design, build, test, and own systems for servicing 401(k) plans. Reliability and performance are key, so you will extend our system’s robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability.\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe Portfolio Management team is responsible for the software system that manages each participant's current investment (retirement fund). Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as the top priority. In 2024, our team will expand by approximately 60% to seize new and exciting business opportunities. We will develop new products, features, and services from scratch to cater to a brand new set of customer base, creating a significant new revenue source for the company.\n\nWhat you get to do every day\n\n\n* Define forward-looking architectures through designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs. value, and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders.\n\n* Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision.\n\n* Coach and mentor senior engineers to improve innovation, efficiency, and technical capabilities.\n\n* Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention.\n\n* Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.\n\n* Raise the bar for team standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher quality code.\n\n* Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable systems.\n\n* Advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring to the role\n\n\n* Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems.\n\n* Expertise in designing and building modular distributed applications to support a rapidly growing customer base.\n\n* Solid understanding of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient use of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies (preferably AWS).\n\n* Ability to influence cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes.\n\n* Clear articulation of the business benefits resulting from technical decisions.\n\n* Enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically, becoming a key go-to person in your company.\n\n* Experience delivering large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.\n\n* Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability and availability.\n\n* Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback, and grow—from internal legacy and futuristic technical designs to retirement domains and workflows critical for our business.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhy you will love working at Human Interest\n\nMission - Highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth. It’s an opportunity to help solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in America: saving for retirement.\n\nCulture - Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Human Interest’s unique view on what’s important and what’s right. Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions on their own. It also helps candidates considering career opportunities critically evaluate whether they will thrive at Human Interest. \n\n\nCustomer obsession\n\nLong-term orientation\n\nAutonomous and accountable teams\n\nAn escalating bar for talent and performance \n\nFundamental optimism \n\n\n\n\nCompensation - At Human Interest, there are a number of factors that are used to determine the appropriate pay range for each position. We take into account the cost of labor for each position in various markets across the US. The base salary for this position spans $245,000 - $275,000 and represents the minimum in our lowest geographic region to a maximum in our highest geographic region. The salary that we offer to a new employee within this range is based on their location within the US, their relevant job-related skills, and experience. At Human Interest, base salary is one component of the overall Total Rewards package. Depending on the position, additional compensation components such as bonus, commission, and equity may be offered. All of our employees are offered a robust suite of physical, financial and mental wellness benefits.\n\nBenefits - \n\n\nA great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees\n\nTop-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance\n\nGenerous PTO and parental leave policies\n\nAddition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness\n\nLyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents  \n\nCarrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits\n\nCandidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt\n\nMonthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend\n\nEmployee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech\n\nFun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites\n\nThe vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) \n\nHere’s a list of our awards and accolades:\n\n\n* Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2024)\n\n* Fortune Best Place to Work in the Bay Area (2024)\n\n* Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)\n\n* America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024) \n\n* A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)\n\n* Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\nHuman Interest is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran or military status, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected under federal, state, or local laws.\n\nWe are committed to making every stage of our application process fully accessible to all individuals. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the process, please let us know at [email protected].\n\nPlease note Human Interest does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider resumes from vendors including and without limitation search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies. \n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines.\n\nSee more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $102,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nAre you driven to bring people, technology, and strategy together to build impactful tools? Do you like building systems that help people work more efficiently? \n\nThen Jobber might be the place for you! We're looking for a Manager, Salesforce Engineering to lead our Business Technology Salesforce team.\n\nJobber exists to help people in small businesses be successful. We work with small home service businesses, like your local plumbers, painters, and landscapers, to transform the way service is delivered through technology. With Jobber they can quote, schedule, invoice, and collect payments from their customers, while providing an easy and professional customer experience. Running a small business today isn’t like it used to be—the way we consume and deliver service is changing rapidly, technology is evolving, and customers expect more. That’s why we put the power and flexibility in their hands to run their businesses how, where, and when they want! \n\nOur culture of transparency, inclusivity, collaboration, and innovation has been recognized by Great Place to Work, Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, and more. Jobber has also been named on the Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies list, and Deloitte Canada’s Technology Fast 50™, Enterprise Fast 15, and Technology Fast 500™ lists. With an Executive team that has over thirty years of industry experience of leading the way, we’ve come a long way from our first customer in 2011—but we’ve just scratched the surface of what we want to accomplish for our customers.\nThe team:\n\nSalesforce Engineering is the engineering team within our Business Technology Team, our internal consulting department – they’re the decision support mechanism that connects data, business insights and an internal tech stack (systems) with the rest of the organization.\n\nThe Business Technology team develops internal software, integrations and data infrastructure. Our work unlocks improved operational outcomes, workflow efficiencies and new business insights across our organization. We help teams leverage data, tools and technology in order to successfully execute on their own mandates. We research, develop and maintain systems which support other internal teams from an operational and analytical perspective.\n\nThe role: \n\nReporting to our VP, Engineering, the Manager of Salesforce Engineering will work with team members to support and develop their skills and career trajectory, as we all work together to empower small businesses. In addition, you will be heavily involved in the strategic direction of the Salesforce Biztech team in how we work and what we work on. Overall, you’ll support and develop your team, adapting to changes, while rolling up your sleeves to work on technical problems alongside direct reports.\nThe Manager, Salesforce Engineering will:\n\nAct as a leader, where you’ll:\n\n\n* Live and breathe performance facilitation. You want to work with your team(s) to help them master their individual crafts, while also collaborating to build extraordinary experiences and systems.\n\n* Be committed to the success of your people. You will help them set goals, have regular 1-on-1s, and provide constructive feedback and coaching to ensure your team's success. You’ll work to understand employees’ career direction and work to empower their journey by acting as a mentor and coach. \n\n* Develop a world-class Salesforce Engineering team that works closely with our Revenue Operations Team. You’ll participate in recruiting events and the hiring process while also working to level up your internal team, all while implementing new processes.\n\n* Remove roadblocks and build guardrails. You’ll work with the other leaders to create and maintain an environment where people can rapidly produce top-quality work that ultimately helps our internal teams and customers be successful.\n\n* Collaborate with other stakeholders across the business. Whether it’s our Marketing and Sales teams, or other engineering functions, you’re working closely with other Jobberinos to find the best solutions in Jobber for small businesses.\n\n\n\n\nSupport their team with hands on work where you’ll:\n\n\n* Implement new process and automation in Salesforce, leveraging the capabilities to streamline operations and enhance productivity.\n\n* Enable and install new App integration with Salesforce to contribute to a unified user experience across different systems.\n\n* Conduct thorough analysis, debugging, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to find optimal solutions to ensure smooth operation of Salesforce.\n\n* Strategize system maintenance related projects by collaborating with stakeholders to define the roadmap to maintain the reliability, scalability and efficiency of the Salesforce platform.\n\n* Seek out and evaluate new technologies, tools and systems to achieve state of the art tech-stack, contributing to the overall advancement of Jobbers Salesforce platform infrastructure.\n\n* Leverage Salesforce capabilities to optimize business processes, automate workflows, and achieve operational excellence.\n\n\n\nTo be successful, you should have:\n\n\n* Leadership & mentorship experience. You’ll bring your shared experience into conversations to influence and provide constructive feedback to direct reports throughout the journey to ensure goals are being met and exceededExperience leading similar systems or Business Technology (Salesforce-focused) teams. \n\n* Previous experience as a Senior Salesforce Developer, developing and implementing Salesforce Sales Cloud Solutions.\n\n* The ability to be agile in an agile environment. You’ll need to be able to lead and teach your team to adapt to change, while also thinking critically and creatively to find answers to problems.\n\n* Effective communication skills. Being transparent with your team and establishing an open dialogue will be a key to success in supporting your coaching conversations and discussions.\n\nTechnical know-how:\n\n\n\n* Extensive experience working with Apex, Gearset, Git version control, SOQL, Visualforce, and Lightning components.\n\n* Experience with Salesforce declarative automation tools like Process Builder, Cloud Flow Designer & Flow Builder.\n\n* Experience in working with data migration and import tools such as Data Loader and Data Import Wizard.\n\n\n\n\nYour approach will include:\n\n\n*  A desire to collaborate. Experience working across multiple business units, comprising many stakeholders and influencing factors. You are team-oriented but able to work autonomously with minimal guidance in a fast-paced environment.\n\n* A sense of ownership with a growth mindset.  You are driven to do the right things and often find yourself in the driver’s seat. You are the kind of person who knows what needs to get done and you make it happen while planning for the next stage ahead. You also involve the right people to help you with this.\n\n* A proven troubleshooting experience. You’ll be very familiar with Salesforce best practices and the ability to recommend changes to our process that will increase efficiency for our internal teams.\n\n* A high level of adaptability. You will need to support the high-performing sales and success teams with ad-hoc requests and help in removing barriers/enabling new pathways on an ever-changing landscape\n\n\n\nNice to have: \n\n\n* Experience with Salesforce Configuration and Administration\n\n* Experience with Heroku Connect.\n\n* Experience in developing integrated solutions using REST and/or SOAP.\n\n* Familiarity with building reports and dashboards.\n\n* Valid Salesforce developer certification\n\n\n\nWhere you can expect to work:\n\nOur product provides entrepreneurs the flexibility of working in their office or the field and we offer that same opportunity to our employees. You will have the choice to work in either our Edmonton or Toronto offices OR remotely anywhere within Canada. We’re committed to ensuring the best experience for all Jobberinos to do impactful work.\n\nAll interviews are currently being conducted virtually—via phone or video.\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Designer, Cloud, Git, Marketing, Sales and Heroku jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, Ontario, Canada

\nHuman Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. \n\nNearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future. Too often it’s because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.\n\nWe’re a high-growth tech company changing the retirement industry. We’ve raised $500M and are backed by leading investors. Most recently, by funding from BlackRock as well as many other top investors: TPG (The Rise Fund) with SoftBank led our Series D, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.\n\nJoin our amazing Engineering team\n\nOur engineering organization aims to redefine the retirement services space with software that provides an effortless, efficient, scalable, and reliable user experience. \n\n\n* We value continuous improvement, emphasizing documentation, security, consistency, and scalability.\n\n* We help each other be better engineers, ensuring we leave things better than we found them.\n\n* We are customer-focused, ensuring our software improves the customer experience.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the role\n\nIn this impactful, hands-on senior technical leadership role, you will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. You will provide technical guidance and mentorship, define and refine our architecture, processes, and best practices. Collaborating with domain experts and engineers, you will design, build, test, and own systems for servicing 401(k) plans. Reliability and performance are key, so you will extend our system’s robustness, scalability, observability, and maintainability.\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe Portfolio Management team is responsible for the software system that manages each participant's current investment (retirement fund). Our team regularly undertakes projects that are critical to the company's success, often ranking as the top priority. In 2024, our team will expand by approximately 60% to seize new and exciting business opportunities. We will develop new products, features, and services from scratch to cater to a brand new set of customer base, creating a significant new revenue source for the company.\n\nWhat you get to do every day\n\n\n* Define forward-looking architectures through designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs. value, and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders.\n\n* Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision.\n\n* Coach and mentor senior engineers to improve innovation, efficiency, and technical capabilities.\n\n* Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems, making them more robust and higher performance with less human intervention.\n\n* Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.\n\n* Raise the bar for team standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher quality code.\n\n* Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable systems.\n\n* Advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring to the role\n\n\n* Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems.\n\n* Expertise in designing and building modular distributed applications to support a rapidly growing customer base.\n\n* Solid understanding of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient use of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies (preferably AWS).\n\n* Ability to influence cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes.\n\n* Clear articulation of the business benefits resulting from technical decisions.\n\n* Enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically, becoming a key go-to person in your company.\n\n* Experience delivering large-scale backend systems, managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.\n\n* Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems while maintaining high reliability and availability.\n\n* Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback, and grow—from internal legacy and futuristic technical designs to retirement domains and workflows critical for our business.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhy you will love working at Human Interest\n\nMission - Highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth. It’s an opportunity to help solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in America: saving for retirement.\n\nCulture - Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Human Interest’s unique view on what’s important and what’s right. Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions on their own. It also helps candidates considering career opportunities critically evaluate whether they will thrive at Human Interest. \n\n\nCustomer obsession\n\nLong-term orientation\n\nAutonomous and accountable teams\n\nAn escalating bar for talent and performance \n\nFundamental optimism \n\n\n\n\nRead more\n\nCompensation - At Human Interest, there are a number of factors that are used to determine the appropriate pay range for each position. We take into account the cost of labor for each position in various markets across the US. The base salary for this position spans $200,000 - $220,000 and represents the minimum in our lowest geographic region to a maximum in our highest geographic region. The salary that we offer to a new employee within this range is based on their location within the US, their relevant job-related skills, and experience. At Human Interest, base salary is one component of the overall Total Rewards package. Depending on the position, additional compensation components such as bonus, commission, and equity may be offered. All of our employees are offered a robust suite of physical, financial and mental wellness benefits.\n\nBenefits - \n\n\nA great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees\n\nTop-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance\n\nGenerous PTO and parental leave policies\n\nAddition Wealth - Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness\n\nLyra - Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents  \n\nCarrot - Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits\n\nCandidly - Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt\n\nMonthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend\n\nEmployee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech\n\nFun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company offsites\n\nThe vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a great place to work (but don’t take our word for it) \n\nHere’s a list of our awards and accolades:\n\n\n\n\n* Certified as a Great Place To Work® (2023-2024)\n\n* Best Places to Work by Built In (2023-2024)\n\n* America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes (2020-2022, 2024) \n\n* A Top Company by Y Combinator (2020-2023)\n\n* Inc. Fastest Growing Companies (2021)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nHuman Interest is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran or military status, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected under federal, state, or local laws.\n\nHuman Interest employees must adhere to the Company’s security policies and Code of Ethics. \n\nPlease note Human Interest does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider resumes from vendors including and without limitation search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies. \n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines. See more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Are you an inspirational, forward-thinking, and people-centric seasoned engineering leader? Do you excel at transforming vision and strategy into results? Have you led other engineering organizations to achieve next level of excellence during the growth phase of the business life cycle? Are you pragmatic with an unshakable focus on strategy, execution, and results? Do you have depth and breadth in leading SaaS product development?\n\nIf you answered yes to these questions, we are sure this position will sound super exciting to you. 🤩\n\nKeep reading for more details! 📝\n\n\n# Become Our New Head of Engineering!\nAs the Head of Engineering you will lead the strategy and execution for our cross-functional engineering teams to deliver an exceptional customer experience and lower customer effort while empowering our customers to easily and quickly gain the benefits of our products.\n\nWP Media is the French company behind successful WordPress plugins like WP Rocket and Imagify. WP Rocket is the premium caching plugin for WordPress used by +1,000,000 websites and +120,000 customers worldwide. Our plugin makes sites go at the speed of light in just a few clicks. Imagify is our free image optimization service, including a free WordPress plugin: we have already optimized more than 2,000,000,000 images! 😲\n\nYou will join and lead our remote, global team, covering AMER and EMEA regions. To facilitate this international teamwork, you live or work in a time zone between UTC+2 to UTC-5. We are so curious to know which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍\n\n\n\n# Our Technical Stack:\nOur products are powered by:\n\nLanguages: Python, PHP, and JavaScript\nFrameworks: Django, Lumen, Symfony, Ember, and Node\nWordPress for our plugins and websites\nArchitecture: modular, monolithic, and microservices\nGitHub for our code repositories\nOVH Cloud Services for SaaS APIs and websites\n\n\n## What Your Mission Will Be:\nOur Engineering mission is:\n*We engineer and deliver production-ready products that make our customers' websites better, faster, and lighter.*\n\n\nYour mission is to:\n\n* empower the engineering department to achieve its mission\n* ensure the product vision is realized through quality and excellence\n* ensure we serve the current and future technology and engineering needs of the company\n* nurture, scale, and empower happy, healthy, and high-performance teams\n\n## What You Will Be Responsible For:\nHere is a list describing the focal areas you'll be responsible for in this role (*do you happen to like making lists? So do we!*):\n\n\n\nThe engineering department is responsible for:\n\n* developing the things Product envisions\n* delivering quality\n* serving the technology and automation needs across our business\n* partnering with Product to envision the future\n\n\nThe Head of Engineering is responsible to make all of the above happen.\n\n\n\nYou will ensure all aspects of the department (people, processes, infrastructure, operations, etc.) achieve its responsibilities today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\n\n\nYou will lead our global Engineering strategy and execution to:\n\n* People\n * Hiring\n * Career development\n * Team management\n * Team health and happiness\n * Builds and scales high-performance, agile, and collaborative teams\n\n* Engineering operations\n * Owning, managing, and optimizing the overall engineering processes, practices, and tooling\n * Product and internal Infrastructures\n * Managing and paying down our technical debt\n\n* Delivery\n * Executing the technical and product strategies and roadmaps\n * Engineer and deliver what our technical and product strategies envisioned\n * Readiness\n * ensures our teams are capable and ready to deliver results when needed\n * ensures we have capacity to deliver when needed\n * ensures our operations, networks, and infrastructure are ready and available to serve our customers, team, and company\n\n * Results:\n * Deliver the right results of quality, and excellence\n * Drives agility and continuous improvement\n * Owning and managing engineering budget responsibilities while being fiscally pragmatic and accountable\n\n * Partnerships:\n * Partners with the CEO to\n * Co-develop the technical vision, roadmap, and strategy\n * Identify and assess technical risks\n * Inspect and continuously improve:\n * our standards and practices\n * technical debt\n * architecture\n * Partners with the CPO to\n * define the “how” for each feature, issue, and task in the Product Backlog\n * define the “how much” for product planning\n * provide timely and thoughtful progress updates\n * ensure we engineer and build what Product envisioned\n * Partners with the Head of Support to\n * hear the voice of the customer\n * understand, access, and reduce the impacts from our work on the Support department\n * Partners with all leaders of the company for our business technology needs\n\n## What Do You Need To Excel at This Job:\nHere is a short list of the key attributes you'll need to excel in this role:\n\n* You are an exceptional servant leader\n* You empower your people\n* You are a team builder\n* You are an operations architect and optimizer\n* You are a performance and excellence maximizer\n* You get the *right* things done\n* You deliver the *right* results\n* You are fiscally pragmatic\n\n\n**Seasoned engineering leader with proven success.**\n\nYou have years and years of engineering leadership experience in a SaaS product company at scale with millions of requests per day. You've successfully led and grown cross-functional, globally distributed department of software, QA, DevOps, and systems engineers. Over the years of your career, you've amassed breadth and depth in what it takes for an engineering organization to deliver exceptional product and customer experiences and impact.\n\n\n\n**Seasoned engineer.**\n\nWe are a technology company. The leader for this role will be a seasoned engineer. In order to lead this department, you will need to be able to walk in their shoes and understand how well enough to guide, facilitate, advice, and validate. You are not expected to code or do hands-on engineering. We need you to be working in the weeks and months ahead, to see where we are going, what the risks are, and how we can get there. To do this, you will need to a strong technical background.\n\n\n\n**Servant leader.**\n\nYour philosophy of leadership aligns to the servant leader style. You believe your role is to serve the Engineering people. We value empowered people and teams. As a servant leader, you actively push decision making down to those closest to the problem and actively coach people to develop their decision making superpowers.\n\n\n\n**People empowerer. Team builder.**\n\nYou know that to deliver results, you start with happy, high-performance engineering people and teams. You are a proven and exceptional people empowerer and team builder. You are an outstanding and effective coach. You serve your people by actively developing and coaching them as well as creating opportunities for each person to continuously learn, improve, and grow. You advocate for continuous learning and improvement. You create a sense of psychological safety for your people. You excel at recruiting and retaining top high performing talent.\n\n\n\n**Unshakeable focus on execution, results, and strategy.**\n\nYou possess an unshakeable focus on execution, results, and strategy. Your eyes are focused on the vision of where we are going while your feet are firmly planted in daily to ensure your people are on course and moving towards that vision and the results we must achieve.\n\n\n\nYou are data-driven and masterful at developing the right set of metrics. You know that the right set of metrics is your compass, helping everyone to know if we are on track.\n\n\n\n**Stellar communication skills.**\n\nYou present complex information to audiences ranging from cross-functional leads to executives and leave them informed and inspired.\n\n\n\n**Operations and performance maximizer.**\n\nThrough the years, you've refined your operational approach to maximize performance and excellence. You get the *right* things done and deliver the right results. You leverage OKRs to focus on and achieve those right things and results. You have an eye for identifying and removing friction from the engineering process (e.g. developing and implementing internal service tooling to automate processes).\n\n\n\n**Tune and refine, rather than redesign.**\n\nYou are agile, building on top of what exists and is already working well. You tune and refine, adapting for your new company, organizational design, department, and teams. You know that big sweeping changes are disruptive and costly. You opt to take baby steps.\n\n\n\n**Champion of continuous learning and improvement.**\n\nYou advocate and champion continuous learning and improvement. You see mistakes and missteps as opportunities to learn, improve, and grow. You encourage everyone around you to embrace these principles as part of your strategy to achieve results and better serve our customers.\n\n\n\n**Being Yourself.**\n\nThe WP Media team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values (*more on this below*). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.\n\n\n\n**Proficient knowledge of English.**\n\nEmpathetic and collaborative communication is key: you are comfortable writing, speaking, and listening in English with technical and non-technical teammates.\n\n\n\n### *Do you want to know a few other things we appreciate about our candidates? Don’t worry if you don’t have experience in any of these areas. We’ll teach you.*\n\n\n\n**Previous freelance or remote job experience.**\n\nSlack will be your virtual office, where all the life of the company takes place.\n\n\n\n**Know web performance.**\n\nYou have experience with web performance optimization. You know how to measure page load speeds. You understand caching. Terms like gzip, preload, minify, and lazyload are not foreign to you. You know the difference between PageSpeed score and page load time. If you don’t know, we’ll teach you.\n\n\n\n**Love for cats or Corgis!** 😸🐶\n\nWhat would our working days be without our four-legged friends?\n\n\n## What Else You Should Know About Our Company: WP Media\nFounded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France, [WP Media](http://wp-media.me/) is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +35 teammates living around the world.\n\n\n\n## Do We Share the Same Values?\n\n**Mutual respect**, **collaboration**, and **inclusivity**.\n\nThese are the fundamental values that support our life as a team.\n\n\n**Healthy balance between work and private life.**\n\nWe encourage our employees to enjoy their family and their hobbies with flexible working hours and *minimum* vacation policy (you should take a minimum of 5 weeks per year: really, we don’t count them!).\n\n\n\n**We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.**\n\nYou can organize your working day with flexible working hours. There are no time cards to stamp, just customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with!\n\n\n**Transparent culture.**\n\nWe have a [public salary grid](https://wp-rocket.me/blog/our-salary-grid-is-now-public/). Once a year, when the company does well, we **share our profits** with the team in the form of bonuses.\n\n\n**We like to see each other in person whenever possible.**\n\nEvery year, we organize a trip with the whole team and **spend a week of coworking and fun activities together**.\n\n\nTo give you an idea, so far we have traveled to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico:\n\n\n\nNow that we've told you so much about us, it's your turn. 😉\n\n\nLet us know why you would like to become **our Head of Engineering** and why you think you are the person we are looking for.\n\nWe can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟 \n\nPlease mention the words **DIAMOND ARRANGE SPOIL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjE4Ljc1LjE0Mw==). 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\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide