Berry Street
We believe that children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful.
Children • Young people • Families & communities • Family violence • Foster care
1001 - 5000
Head of Engineering
August 21
🏢 In-office - Manhattan
Berry Street
We believe that children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful.
Children • Young people • Families & communities • Family violence • Foster care
1001 - 5000
Description
• Build a high-performance culture that rewards results, and is optimized for retention and productivity. • Articulate a technology strategy that allows engineers to make great decisions and balance paying down tech debt, building for scale, and shipping new functionality. • Evolve our architecture, creating services that can be owned and managed end-to-end. • Ensure our internal engineering practices (e.g. CI/CD, code reviews, QA technology, etc) are appropriate for our scale, and maximizing our productivity. • Serve as a player-coach, leading by example through both strategic management and hands-on technical contributions to our codebase. • Grow the team; optimize our recruiting process and hire across all backgrounds, all levels of seniority & specialist technical domains. • Manage at scale; bring to bear the right balance of process and flexibility; measure what matters and drive improvements in quality, velocity, and impact. • Own the engineering infrastructure and SaaS budget. Continue building our techops competency for efficiency, reliability, scale, and security. • You will partner with peer department heads to create the technical roadmap and headcount plan that accelerate the business. • As an executive in the company, you will be part of the Senior Leadership Team and form strong relationships with the C-suite and VPs. • Maintain high-velocity iteration in the face of increasing scale and complexity.
Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including 3+ years of recruiting and managing a team of multiple senior engineers preferred. You’ve built and scaled systems, made complex engineering decisions, and have proven out your technical skills in the industry (Bonus: if you’ve scaled engineering in the digital health or consumer marketplace space). • Prior experience in a leadership role, managing and growing a team of engineers • You have experience working with REST APIs, web frameworks, relational databases like postgreSQL, an understanding of HTML, CSS, strong Javascript skills and at least one backend language. • Entrepreneurial spirit. You have worked in a startup or on your own side projects and built products from the ground up. • Product thinker. You want to build through a user-centric lens and be involved not only in engineering decisions but product and design decisions as well. • Leader. You’ll do anything to achieve your goal. You know how to think on the fly and persist through setbacks and roadblocks and to motivate your teammates to do the same. • Team Player. You are collaborative by nature, relish in camaraderie and group wins, and are looked to by colleagues as a steadfast partner and source of encouragement • Highly Motivated. You want ownership of your work.
Benefits
• The chance to drive impact within the healthcare landscape from day one • Comprehensive health insurance plans, including dental and vision • Spacious and light-drenched Madison Square Park office ☀️ • Generous PTO 🏖️ • 401k with match 💰 • Citibike membership 🚲 • Unlimited dietitian care 🍓 • Continuous learning opportunities • Competitive salary • The opportunity to help build a rapidly scaling start-up organization by taking strong ownership of your work, mentorship, and our unbounded leadership opportunities
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