Director of Software Engineering - Bulgaria
Created:
Jul 18, 2023, 10:15 PM
Location
Mountain View, California, United States, 94041
Organization
Description
Who we are
Come and join us at Redis, where our success and diverse global culture make us the ideal choice for your next career move. When you join us, you’ll begin a new and exciting career journey on which you’ll enjoy professional success, learn valuable new skills, and make lifelong friends.
Why Redis?
Data is the lifeline of every business, and Redis helps organizations reimagine how fast they can process, analyze, make predictions, and take action on the data they generate. Redis provides a competitive edge to more than 8,000 global businesses with Redis Enterprise. We have major strategic partnerships with cloud vendors Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Why would you love this job?
Redis is launching its first R&D center in Bulgaria and we’re looking for a Director of R&D to lead this site and expand our operations. The Director of R&D will report directly to our VP International R&D and oversee the hiring, growth, delivery, and operations for the Bulgarian R&D team.
What you’ll do:
- Help the R&D teams make high-level technical decisions by yourself or by pulling in the relevant technical leaders and architects. This can include architecture, design, and choosing the right tools and technologies.
- Help recruit and build diverse teams, some owning end-to-end development of products or components and some acting as extensions to existing teams.
- Help define and implement agile development methodologies and tools.
- Work cross-functionally with product management, customer support, customer success, operations, and HR.
- Provide effective leadership and be responsible for all the site’s R&D activities.
- Lead, manage, and develop an effective R&D staff by communicating expectations, providing resources, building technical quality capabilities, and measuring results against those expectations.
- Act as site manager, lead recruiting and hiring efforts, making the hiring decisions, and plan headcount and requirements to meet goals.
- Provide effective leadership and be responsible for all site activities.
- Create a culture of quality awareness, teamwork, and with all groups within the office, in line with the company’s values.
What will you need to have?
- Strong technical background as a hands-on developer that grew to technical leadership roles and general management-type responsibilities.
- You’re an experienced dev leader who’s managed all R&D aspects, including devs, DevOps, QA, Automation, Project managers, and Architects.
- Experience in building engineering teams for small and mid-size technology companies.
- You’re experienced with Agile / Scrum.
- You're a diligent, communicative, and organized leader who can see ahead to future challenges and potential issues and be ready to address/solve them with a plan of action.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment. You don't get flustered with constant change and are able to pivot quickly.
- You love numbers, everything R&D, and will support your team while keeping everyone on track and be able to accurately report updates to executives when asked.
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