Job Title
Director, Software Engineering
Job Description
At MyLife (my.life), we’re passionate about helping the world find peace of mind every day and inspired to become the #1 emotional wellness brand in the world. Our apps allow users to check in and engage in short meditations and activities tuned to how they feel. MyLife has been downloaded over 4.5M times, won a Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Health App, and been featured by Apple as App of the Day.
We believe in hard work, kindness, dedication, accountability, helping each other, and getting stuff done. If you share those values and want to be part of a team that will impact life for millions, then we’d love to talk to you.
LA candidates preferred, but we are open to remote accommodations for the right person.
Remote available in these states: CA, CT, FL, ID, IL, MD, NC, NY, PA, TX
Offices in Los Angeles, CA and Stamford, CT
This role reports to the SVP of Engineering at Synapse Group, a Meredith company.
Opportunity for Impact
- If you are obsessed and excited about providing peace of mind and emotional wellness using your extensive leadership, management and technology skills, then this role is for you!
- You’ll lead an exceptional group of engineers working with a wide array of technologies to build our iOS/Android mobile apps, website, and backend systems which are core to the success of our business.
- This is startup minded team within a mature organization operating at large scale that is also in the midst of a transformation. You’ll be able to have an impact throughout the organization by advocating for and implementing meaningful change.
Role and Responsibilities (What You’ll Do)
- Build some amazing things, learn, have fun
- Leverage your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results – focusing on creating value, continuous improvement and collaboration
- Partner with engineers, product, and project managers to define the vision, strategy and roadmap
- Strive to thoroughly understand customer, business, engineering, and stakeholders needs to provide effective solutions to meet those needs via analytical and data-driven approaches
- Dive deep into tech, helping with architecture, design, and best practices via mentoring, coaching, and hands-on
- Build real and effective partnerships between your teams and others throughout the company
- Collaborate with tech leaders to create and implement tech strategy by keeping up to date with tech industry trends and best practices
- Ensure excellent software development processes using Agile best practices
- Effectively manage multiple projects and work across a broad range of technologies
- Hire, coach, enable, and retain an exceptional group of engineers
Professional Qualifications (What You Have)
- You have 12+ years of hands-on full-stack software development experience with deep understanding of architecture and design
- You have 5+ years of management and leadership experience with high performing teams
- You develop, coach and provide opportunities to people, and have demonstrated the ability to do so
- You care deeply about your team, customers, architecture, design, quality, and all the little details
- You listen, communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, and provide solutions with actionable plans
- You know most of these technologies and are eager to learn the rest quickly as needed – Ruby / Rails, Postgres or equiv database, React, Redux, JavaScript, Heroku, Node, iOS (Swift), Android (Java / Kotlin), Alexa, Firebase, GraphQL, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc), Cloudflare
- You know most of these tools and are eager to learn the rest quickly as needed – GitHub, Amplitude, Data Studio, Google Analytics, Braze, AppsFlyer, Contentful
- You have extensive experience delivering products in an Agile environment (Scrum / Kanban)
- B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience)
Personal Characteristics (Who You Are)
- Highly effective at creating collaborative relationships across an entire organization
- High energy and action-oriented with a history of getting things done in complex environments
- Results oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches
- Both accepting of other people’s ideas and confident in your own
- Values integrity, humility, accountability, creativity, confidence, open-mindedness, reliability, collaboration
It is the policy of Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Meredith will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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