Senior Director - Development

You have demonstrated your ability to efficiently run an offshore software development team of more than 20 people while being the architect/visionary of your company’s software and IT infrastructure. You have a passion for technology and the latest Internet frameworks. You understand what it takes to design, implement, QA and reliably run a consumer facing web infrastructure and eCommerce portal. If this describes you then you are the key contributor we are looking for. We are a venture-backed truly global company, consumer facing, technology based, disruptive to our market, rapidly growing, and very well financed.

 

Responsibilities:

-Manage offshore software development teams (Delhi, Bangalore, Ukraine)

-Design and architect company customer facing portal and backend software infrastructure

-Manage company software development lifecycle and resources, from requirements gathering through to maintenance

-Provide marketing and the product teams with the software and IT infrastructure they need to expand the customer base and product portfolio
-Build organic and partner development teams

-Technologically drive and oversee management of quickly expanding global IT infrastructure (500+ CPU) and IT support team (India, US and soon Europe and Japan)

-Oversee and expand company’s technology portfolio and develop planning to support

 

Qualifications/Skills:

-7+ years experience in technology/IT/software development and management (min 20 reports)

-Visionary, with strong abstraction and analytical skills

-Detailed oriented and quality focused

-Passionate about the latest software development technology (Ruby on Rails, wordpress, ajax, SOAP, etc)

-Demonstrated ability to design and manage offshore implementation of complex software infrastructure from concept to production

-Strong project management skills with demonstrated success in driving  year-long projects

-Proficient in the LAMP environment and in SQL

-Experienced in designing and managing implementation of IT infrastructure of at least +100 servers/workstations

-Formal education in an engineering discipline, ideally software development

-Outstanding written and oral communication skills

-MS in an engineering discipline or computer science required
-Position can be located in either San Francisco Bay Area (Burlingame) or India

Other:
Fun, hard working environment with experienced management team.  Compensation commensurate with experience - full benefits and equity included.