Director of Engineering - $200,000/year USD - JobID #3288

Company Name: Crossover for Work
Location: Lahore

Are you ready to turbocharge your career? Imagine a place where you are well paid, have the smartest peers, grow your skills, and can work from almost anywhere. Crossover is the future of work and a global leader in software industry talent. We are growing rapidly across nearly 50 different job positions. This listing is for our VP of Software Engineering position, but we have found great applicants often have a current title of Director of Engineering or similar, so don’t be confused about that difference, we are glad you found us. Hit “Apply” to learn more about this exciting opportunity.
Crossover, the world’s largest #remotework company is looking for exceptional tech-savvy senior software managers for long-term, full-time roles. We offer 100% #remotejobs working with the best talent from around the world. It is also an opportunity to develop and maintain a portfolio of more than 100 different Cloud-based Saas products.

As an executive level manager and decision maker for several of our engineering teams, you will be working with the top 1% of global engineering talent, acting both as a hands-on engineer as well as the technical lead of your team. You will guide and coach, managers and individual contributors working on multiple technologies and platforms. The pace is fast and rewarding as you will be solving the hardest problems in our products and processes. Apply now to start your long-term career path with us and shape the #futureofwork.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases across multiple, complex software products
• Establish world-class standards and technical operations to deliver consistent, high-quality products across dispersed, global team
• Implement internal engineering management strategies to achieve world-class productivity and cost efficiency
• Engage with customers and product managers to ensure that product delivery obsessively aligns with customer value creation
• Transform existing teams of engineers, architects and development managers into a highly effective engineering function, including upgrading and reorganizing talent as required
• Engage and align top talent through strong recruitment, mentoring, hands-on architectural leadership and career management
• Potentially lead product technical due diligence and engineering talent assessments in companies which we are going to acquire
• Transform acquired engineering teams into an effective and efficient global model to increase quality and reduce cost over pre-acquisition benchmarks
  
  

Candidate requirements:

• This is a global leadership role for a seasoned software development leader, not a first executive role for a manager
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science is mandatory (MS or Ph.D. preferred)
• Minimum of 5 years in a software engineering management position such as CTO, Head of Development, or VP of Engineering
• Minimum of 2 years in a hands-on development role in C++, Java or .NET architecture
• Led a team of at least 50 software engineers within the last 3 years where you were responsible for goal setting, performance measurement, and hiring/ firing decisions (direct reporting lines)
• Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in an engineering organization
• Recent experience with DevOps teams
• Proven ability to use metrics as a key driver in your decision-making processes
• Proven and recent experience of setting aggressive goals for your teams using SMART principles
• At least 1 year of experience managing an organization that makes use of IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS
• An advanced level of English
  
  

What you will be doing:

As VP of Engineering you will lead one of our engineering teams or products. You will be working with the top 1% of global engineering talent developing software that follows our best practices in design patterns and architectural principles.

The VP of Engineering will manage a team of 5-15 Software Engineering Managers and ensure the team solves their challenging software problems. You will leverage your technical depth as a former developer and architect to push your team towards a high standard of technical excellence, and achieve the organization's quality bar.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. If you found this interesting, Apply on crossover.com. After applying you will take a few online “screening” assessments to check for a basic fit, and then move on to some real-world written questions. You will also be assigned to one of our recruiting specialists who can answer questions you might have about the process, role, or company, and help you get to the final interview step. We look forward to meeting you!

Crossover Job Code: LJ-3288-PK-Lahore-DirectorOfEngi.002

• Seniority level

  Director

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  EngineeringInformation TechnologyQuality Assurance

• Industries

  Computer SoftwareInformation Technology and ServicesInternet