Director of Backend Engineering

Tomorrow.io's R&D department is focused on building life changing software and products at scale, from infrastructure that handles massive amounts of data to outstanding customer-centric user experiences in B2B, B2C, and B2D products that change billions of lives worldwide. Every product that the user sees is the result of a pipeline of algorithms that needs to be run quickly and continuously. We focus on making everything become a weather station (from cars to microwave links to IoT devices).

We're looking for an experienced, highly motivated Director of Backend Engineering, to lead one of our excellent Engineering groups. You will be part of the R&D management team, mentor, train and motivate a team of highly skilled engineers, to build highly reliable and scalable products.

As our Director of Backend Engineering You'll lead teams and create a highly reliable production environment, build and standardize the tools and methodologies to operate and secure the production environment. You'll lead by example, roll up your sleeves, be hands-on and get things done. It's an amazing opportunity to take part to lead an amazing team to achieve the goal and help us make sure we are building The world's only Weather Intelligence Platform.

In this roll you will:

• Lead multiple teams of developers responsible for data processing and (near) real-time scalable API
• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed software systems
• Be a part of the company’s Engineering management, contribute to the company’s engineering culture, by implementing best engineering practices.
• Mentor and support Team leaders, Individual Contributors and Tech Leads growth
• Drive OKRs around R&D and company goals, manage the group’s metrics and KPIs
• Focus on developing and maintaining Engineering Processes and Interfaces
• Build, recruit and lead a world class team of software engineers and technical leads
• Lead a multi-talented team of software engineers and data scientists to deliver against our roadmap
• Help your tech leads and engineers grow their skills and experience
• Build and maintain a culture of execution, quality, collaboration, mentorship, and open feedback in engineering
• Manage competing priorities for scalability, security, and cost efficiency
• Define clear and appropriate processes within and across teams
• Optimize the existing and architect from scratch, group services and components
• Summarize technical designs to non-technical audiences while at the same time providing direction to the engineering team to execute upon
• Provide thought leadership on backend and data technologies: what are the best practices on identifying, storing, provisioning, processing, and governing data, with particular attention to performance, cost, compliance and security needs.
• Shape architectural solutions for complex, large scale problems spanning over lots of different technologies like ElasticSearch, big data dbs, serverless architecture and big data pipelines and the GCP tech stack

What you'll need:

• You are an inspiring manager and mentor who excels at building teams. You have strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• 10+ years of of software development experience in GO, Java, Python, Kotlin, Scala or similar
• 5+ years of engineering management experience our of which 2+ years as manager of managers (Must)
• 3+ years of experience in development of large, distributed, SAAS software systems, which are customer facing and full production ownership , while keeping it highly reliable, fault-tolerant and scalable - must
• Solid understanding of cloud system architecture
• Experience with: at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP), and NoSQL Big data databases
• Experience in designing a microservices architecture, and releasing using continuous deployment
• You have experience working with data lakes and data processing systems that can be operated across a large organization.
• B.A/BSc in Computer Science from known university (or equivalent experience from lead technological units)
• High soft skills, ability to motivate & inspire others, excellent communication skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• Education - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, Master's degree or higher is preferred

Advantage:

• Hands on experience coding in a functional programming language
• Experience designing, implementing, scaling and owning async big data pipelines
• Experience as a member of the R&D management team.
• You are excellent at recruiting software engineers and managers; You led the growth of a software engineering team from 8 or fewer people to 15 or more people
• You have experience with matrix orgs, cross-functional teams

So if you have a passion for leading a winning team, and you consider yourself open-minded to new directions, a constantly changing and energetic environment and you strive for continuous improvement as a way of life and automation as the way of implementing it - This is the place for you.

If you have reached this point and you are super excited but not sure you check all the boxes - we still want to speak with you! Your passion is priceless. Other things can be learned.

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About tomorrow.io:

Tomorrow.io is helping Countries, Businesses and Individuals better manage their Climate Security Challenges. Fully customizable to any industry impacted by the weather, customers around the world including Uber, Delta, Ford, National Grid and more use Tomorrow.io to dramatically improve operational efficiency. Tomorrow.io was built from the ground up to help teams predict the business impact of weather, streamline team communication and action plans, improve productivity, and optimize profit margins.

Space: In case you have not heard, we are also going to space with our Operation Tomorrow Space initiative. We are building the first-of-its-kind proprietary satellites equipped with radar, and launching them into space to improve weather forecasting technology for everyone on Earth.

How we roll: We work in an “one office” environment. We believe that magic happens when people work together. Together also includes Zoom meetings, flexible hours and unlimited vacation days. Your success is achieved by your impact and deliveries and not by the hours you put in. We believe in transparency and directness, putting work before ego and empathy. We grow fast and move faster but we always see people first. Each person has their own career growth path for we believe that the only way for the company to grow is if you grow.