Head of Software Engineering at d.light

Job description

Reporting to: Director of Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Building and managing a software support team that delivers world-class service to internal stakeholders and B2B clients.
• Managing and growing all software infrastructure, ensuring maximum uptime and performance of systems and optimizing as needed.
• Performing admin functions on AWS cloud infrastructure and third-party development services including managing budgets on server spend, optimizing data management and performance.
• Improving code quality through writing/overseeing unit tests and automation scripts; designing and helping perform code reviews.
• Continually testing and validating system performance and conducting ongoing maintenance.
• Providing roadmap suggestions for system architecture & infrastructure to directors and executives.
• Acting as the emergency contact for system failures.
• Working with Product Management, Sales, Finance, Operations, & Customer Support teams to provide new functionality and continuous improvements.

Successful Candidate Profile

• 7+ years of experience in programming, designing system architecture, and management (you must be comfortable coding, testing, documenting, and deploying!).
• Track record of project scheduling and budgeting, and completing projects on time.
• Experience managing complex solutions with multi-component systems including databases, middle ware, mobile applications, APIs with third-party providers and others.
• Highly efficient communicator, able to communicate with ease across time-zones, geographies and cultures, and with different functions including sales, customer support, finance, and operations.
• Strong individual contributor passionate about d.light’s mission to bring safe, clean, distributed energy to 100 million people.
• Big-picture thinker able to foresee potential roadblocks and implement thoughtful, cost effective and stage-appropriate solutions.

Why Work At d.light

Working on products that can transform millions of lives

Vast opportunities for growth

A global diversified team