Lead Software Engineer - API Tools

Twilio's mission is to fuel the future of communications. Developers and businesses use Twilio to make communications relevant and contextual by embedding messaging, voice and video capabilities directly into their software applications. Founded in 2008, Twilio has over 650 employees, with headquarters in San Francisco and other offices in Bogotá, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Mountain View, Munich, New York City, Singapore and Tallinn.

• Lead a small, empowered team. Move fast - coordinate ships to production multiple times in 2 week sprints.
• Coordinate and communicate effectively across internal engineering teams.
• Build new services from scratch: from designing the architecture to deployment and operation.
• Work with product management to deliver industry best developer-facing tools and services.
• Ship client software across the major platforms (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux) and popular development environments (Xcode, Visual Studio, command line).

• 5+ Years Technical Leadership - proven ability to lead a small team of developers in an Agile environment and collaborate with fellow Tech Leads and Architects to influence their roadmaps.
• Diversity of technical experiences - exposure to a wide array of development environments, software stacks and engineering roles. Experience with both client-side and server-side development is a must.
• Empathy for developers - a desire to serve developers first. You love to talk to developers and build tools that empower them.
• Service Oriented Architecture - experience building and operating micro services that adhere to strict SLAs. Twilio operates a complex global platform that is composed of discrete front end, middleware, and backend services.
• Java, Scala or Python - the supported languages for Twilio services.
• Agile - time spent working on closely-knit teams using Agile methodologies such as Scrum.