Responsibilities

• Drive strategic initiatives that maximize the team's positive impact on the public good, including taking an active role in team delivery of product and engineering goals.
• Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems
• Champion engineering best practices and establish tools to optimize team effectiveness and impact, including providing technical contributions and leadership to software engineers, coaching and mentoring them toward fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Influencing team direction towards achievement of high-priority initiatives (to maximize our impact on the public good)
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
• Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
• Working with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
• Helping with recruitment, particularly for senior hires.

Requirements

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
• Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
• Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
• Passion towards working for public good with interest.
• Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.