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Head of Engineering

Secoda

Secoda

Software Engineering
United States · Remote · California, USA
Posted on Tuesday, July 4, 2023
$150K - $250K CAD / 0.05% - 0.25%
Location
Toronto, ON, CA / Remote (CA; US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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Andrew McEwen
Founder

About the role

Roles and responsibilities

  • Work and manage engineering team to build features and improvements for the platform
  • Work and manage engineering team to increase the scalability of the platform
  • Work with product team to guide the roadmap towards solving the most important problems

Engineers on the team

  • Work with React (TypeScript), Python (Django), Postgres, and AWS.
  • Are supportive when teammates are faced with new challenges
  • Are able to autonomously figure out the solutions to their challenges
  • Put themselves in the shoes of our users to craft a great experience
  • Value clear communication
  • Are curious and willing to take a step to learn something they don’t have experience in
  • Feel a great sense of accountability to our users
  • Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Skills & experience

  • Experience leading and managing an early stage engineering team
  • 6+ years of experience working as a software engineer or engineering manager
  • A fundamental understanding of the core technologies in our stack
  • Proficiency in communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

About Secoda

Secoda makes the experience of exploring and using data as intuitive, fast, and useful as using Google Search. Secoda stands for searchable company data and our vision is to continue to work towards a tool that makes browsing for data knowledge as easy as finding a website on Google.