Director of Engineering - Tech Foundation

Our vision is to transform presentations, meetings and lectures by turning passive audiences into engaged contributors. We make this possible through our interactive presentation platform where the traditional presentation monologue becomes an inclusive dialogue. We believe in the power of together and that the most successful leaders listen to be heard.

With Mentimeter, users become the best presenter they can be. Meetings become more productive, participants learn more and have fun whilst doing it.

We have more than 300 million users and customers worldwide, on our way of making the world a better place, one presentation at a time.

We're looking for a Director of Engineering to head up our Tech Foundation Area. An area of our product department solely consisting of engineers responsible for enabling tech work within areas such as DevOps, Platform Infrastructure, and Security. Currently, the area consists of 12 people in two teams however further technical responsibilities may be added as the company grows and requirements change.

We are a product first driven company that builds our apps in house and deploy fully in the cloud. Technologies you'll be involved with in this role include AWS, CloudFlare, PostgreSQL, NextJs, DataDog and much more.

Who We Are Looking For:

While experience in being a manager of managers is essential, what matters most is your expertise in setting and communicating a technical strategy for the areas particular technical field and overseeing its execution. You will design and execute on a robust technical roadmap that aligns with the company and other product area objectives and is actionable for our skilled engineers. You'll also extend your influence by providing technical capabilities to other Product teams, such as CI/CD pipeline, testing capabilities, monitoring and more. In this capacity, it's important that you align our tech strategy with those of other product areas and clearly outline how your area supports the overall Product and Company goals as well as ensuring operational excellence in execution.

Your Role:

Although you won't be hands-on coding, a strong background within software development, architecture, devOps, database and infrastructure is essential. You'll be responsible for steering architectural and technical discussions, working in alignment with the CTO, VP of Engineering, Staff Engineers, other area leads and domain experts within the product department but particularly with your area's teams.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Strategy: Develop and implement the vision and strategy for the Tech Foundation Area, contributing to the larger product and company strategy.
• Technical Execution: Align and execute on the areas initiatives with broader company goals, while ensuring operational excellence
• Area Leadership: Guide and part of the area's leadership team
• Team Development: Support the growth of your Engineering Manager(s) and team leads
• Investment Optimization: Balance investments to benefit both the engineering experience and project deliverables.
• Vendor Management: Oversee procurement, budgeting, and negotiations with hosting and other technical providers.
• Team Growth: Oversee recruitment, retention, team health and overall staff management.
• Culture Building: Maintain an engineering culture that aligns with the broader company values.
• Operational Metrics: Identify, track, and report on key performance indicators.

Don't meet all our qualifications? That's okay! We value diverse experiences and perspectives. We would love to know why this role appeals to you and how you would be great at the role.

What Mentimeter can offerAt Mentimeter we can offer a diverse and inclusive work environment supported by smart and driven colleagues. We believe in continuous professional development for all of our colleagues and therefore offer access to a leadership program (including external personal coach) and relevant education to ensure that we continue to be state-of-the-art when it comes to innovating and building Mentimeter. Your place will be in a growing company with lots of career opportunities, working on a beloved product used by more than 300 million people. It's not all about work though, we also offer a very healthy view on work-life balance.

All of this comes attached with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including pension contributions. Once a year we also relocate to exciting places all over the world like Merida & Buenos Aires for our Toronto colleagues, cities in Europe (for our Stockholm colleagues), and cities in APAC (for our Sydney colleagues), paid for by us of course. Learn more about our benefits by visiting our Benefits & Perks page

Culture at MentimeterAt Mentimeter we believe in giving everyone a voice - regardless of who you are. So we build a platform that does just that. Our platform is not only our product but also our organization. A platform where people feel safe, where differences are embraced, a place where you can have fun. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not strictly required. In order to give everyone a voice, we need to be as diverse as our users.

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