Director of Engineering

75F is seeking a motivated, high energy, and detail-oriented leader to drive the expansion of our Engineering departments, both locally in Minnesota and our remote team in India. Critical to this role is the ability to remain a strong, hands-on technologist as we scale, while also being able to offer planning, insight and coaching. A successful candidate will ensure that their teams are adaptable, following agile delivery processes, and delivering quality, maintainable, well-tested, and well-architected solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering division of the organization, building a highly professional and motivated team.
• Deliver integrated software and hardware solutions with consistently high quality and reliability, in a timely and predictable manner.
• Be responsible for the overall product development life cycle. Technical Effort Management: resource estimates and schedules for development of new releases, features and products in an agile environment.
• Establish a philosophy of modular, well defined and documented specifications/architecture to ensure efficiency and maintainability.
• Manage local in-house and offshore engineering resources. Manage and mentor the software, hardware and QA teams.
• Interact with product management and sales teams, as well as customers to capture high-level business requirements to translate into technical functional requirements and prioritize development features.

Other Skills and Abilities

• 6+ years of relevant work experience managing technical projects and engineers is required.
• Hands-on experience in delivering integrated software/hardware end to end solutions. Successfully developed products in a managerial capacity, brought them to market and supervised on-going maintenance and upgrade releases.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, life-cycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and test.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices (e.g. OOD, modularity, extensibility, reusability and maintainability)
• Hands-on deep practical knowledge of Agile/Scrum is required. Must have the flexibility to address dynamic market and customer needs with rapid turnaround time.
• Strong knowledge/experience in hardware and embedded product development.
• Proven ability to recruit, retain and grow world-class software developers and managers using strong teambuilding skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-departmentally to drive a project to completion within project budget and timeline.
• Reputation for creating and leading a high-performance culture; a high-energy individual who can motivate and energize others.
• Technical experience in the following areas preferred:
  • Angular, Javascript/d3
  • IoT embedded hardware solutions with C/C++ firmware
  • Android, Java
  • Using or developing Enterprise Reporting., Business Intelligence Tools, Analytics, Machine Learning/AI
  • Understanding data mining, data cleansing, data quality, or data integration
  • DevOps, CI/CD in Azure world

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or closely related technical discipline. Master’s degree preferred.