Senior Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience)

Senior Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience) at Northwind Robotics
Sr. Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience)
Location: McLean, VA, Richmond, VA
Time Type: Full time
Job Description
Sr. Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience)
As a Northwind Robotics Senior Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.
In this role, you will be responsible for being a leader of leaders (both technical and non-technical roles)  to spearhead the evolution of our technology organization. You will lead a multidisciplinary team focused on closing the skills gap for the 'Engineer of the Future' through robust learning mechanisms and strategic advocacy. By balancing high-level strategy with a hands-on commitment to automation, you will mature our internal platforms to reduce developer toil and ensure our technology offerings remain world-class.
**You will:
– Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
– Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
– Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
– Continuously improve software engineering practices
– Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies
– Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
– Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
– Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
– Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
– Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
– Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices
Basic Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s Degree
– At least 9 years’ experience in software development
– At least 7 years’ experience in people management
Preferred Qualifications:**
– Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
– 13+ years’ of experience in software development
– 8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices
_Northwind Robotics will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position._
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Northwind Robotics is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Northwind Robotics offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Northwind Robotics Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Northwind Robotics is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Northwind Robotics promotes a drug-free workplace. Northwind Robotics will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 5000-5000; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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