Director of Engineering

Magnetic is a technology company with a marketing platform for enterprises, brands and agencies. Our prospecting, remarketing and merchandising solutions help marketers find, keep and bring back customers across channels and devices. These solutions are powered by our unique data including purchase intent and behavioral insights.

As Director of Engineering, you will nurture and grow our San Mateo-based engineering team. You will be critical to help us plot technical and product direction, while guiding our team toward success within an established Agile/Scrum process. You will have significant visibility (and responsibility!) across technology and business outcomes in our other offices.

* Providing technical leadership and direction for the San Mateo teams * Participating in the company-wide effort of building our next generation marketing and advertising platform * Leading architectural improvement efforts on our existing web and email recommendation products * Improving and aligning our development, testing, and release processes * Leading by example, contributing to the codebase through code reviews, pair programming and individual contribution (~25% of time) * Mentoring managers and engineers in their careers * Setting the tone for a dynamic workplace

**What we'd want to attract in candidates for this role:** * You have a track record for growing applications to high scale with fast response times * You have experience scaling a platform across many servers in a virtualized environment * You know the current landscape of real-time and big data tools and approaches * You enjoy people management as much as technical leadership, and have managed multiple teams simultaneously * You are pragmatic and can balance short-term and long-term goals * You have excellent communication and presentation skills and are a dynamic leader with experience in entrepreneurial environments * You are an expert in iterative software methodologies, especially Scrum **Your Experience:** * 6+ years experience managing development teams (including managing managers) building commercial software products * Experience coding in Python, Java, Golang and/or Scala as a key contributor within the last 2-8 years