Director - Software Engineering

At G-P, our mission is to break down barriers to global business, enabling opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With remote-first and diverse teams all around the world, our people are key to achieving our mission. We encourage and support personal growth and career development, trust our team members with the flexibility and autonomy to do their best work, and believe in recognition for a job well done.

Our market-leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables our customers to expand and grow into 180+ countries — without requiring entity or subsidiary setup. The technical opportunities you’ll experience here will have a positive impact on people and their livelihood around the world. Beyond the power of our platform, we never forget that behind every hire is a human being, which brings us to you.

If you have a passion for automation, are a deep innovator, and want to solve complex problems, consider G-P. Here, your knowledge and experience will be crucial to design and develop high-performing cloud-based software products using traditional Agile methodologies and modern frameworks.

Our promise to all employees is a clear and simple mantra - Opportunity Made Possible. Come expand your skills in new ways and experience the thrill of your best innovations becoming reality.

About the position:

• About the position:

  As a Software Engineering Director at Globalization Partners you will build and lead teams of strong engineers providing technical and leadership guidance to build G-P Platform in collaboration with Product, Architecture and other functional teams.

  What you can expect to do:

  • Build and grow the team by attracting and hiring strong talented leaders and engineers who continue to raise talent standards in G-P. 

  • Provide leadership mentoring and coaching to your team leads where each of them can grow both technically and personally.

  • Provide technical leadership to the team where you drive and participate in discovery, solutioning and design exercises.

  • Work with the Product, Architects, Engineering leadership to define current and long term vision of the G-P Platform, influence the roadmap, engineering culture and drive engineering and operations efficiencies.  

  • Review and Drive the detailed planning and execution of roadmap plans to meet business objectives

  • Help innovate and inculcate best development practices ranging from developer efficiency, testing strategies, design practices, security, etc

  • Champion G-P Culture and our mission.

  What we are looking for: 

  • Solid software engineering background, with 15+ years of experience developing enterprise-scale web/cloud-based commercial software products.

  • 3+ experience in managing a team of leaders and driving changes though leaders.

  • 8+ years of experience leading complex software development projects through all phases of the software development life cycle using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

  • Strong experience with either back-end and front-end technologies – Typescript, Node.js, Java, React. iOS, Android,

  • Strong knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies. Experience with AWS and Serverless is a plus.

  • Experience in a startup or high-growth environment is highly desirable.

  • Experience in working with globally distributed teams.