ABOUT DSC: 

We’re on a mission to build a better bathroom. We started with razors way back in 2011, and now millions and millions of Members later, we’ve expanded into shave products, skin care, hair styling, with more to come. We’re always growing and reinventing, and we rely on killer talent to help us achieve our goal of owning the bathroom. If you’re a team-playing innovator, you’ll fit right in. A sense of humor helps, too.

About Engineering at DSC:

Behind DSC’s strong consumer-facing brand and high volume digital products is a lean and mean award-winning team of fifty engineers who architect and build our high-volume consumer-facing site, award-winning Native Mobile Apps, RESTful-ish APIs, Highly Scalable Subscription Billing & Fulfillment Systems, Internal Tools & Capabilities, Data Pipelines and Data Science capabilities and the cloud-native Infrastructure that hosts all the magic. You’ll find more details about our stack in this Highscalability.com article and our interviewing philosophy in this Forbes article.

We’re a team that prides itself in technical excellence, speed of delivery and craftsmanship. We like to explore cutting-edge technologies and regularly challenge ourselves to improve our technology and processes. We’re currently transitioning to a Continuous Delivery software development model. We’re a highly-motivated and self-driven bunch that takes ownership and pride in the products we build for our customers, both within the company and consumers. We value mentorship and take pride in building engineers into well-rounded technologists and leaders, who can in turn build more technologists and leaders. 

We’re a small team doing big disruptive things. You’ll often wear multiple hats and get a holistic, multi-faceted career-building experience working for us. Come join us. 

About this Role:

We’re looking for a seasoned entrepreneurial technology leader to lead the development of our Frontend platforms - Web and Native Mobile. As Sr. Director of Engineering, Frontend you’ll be part of the Engineering Leadership team and will be responsible for managing frontend engineers and engineering managers, making key frontend platform decisions, setting the technical direction and be a change agent as we transition to Continuous Delivery. You’ll be a technology consultant, advocate and partner for the Product Management, Design, UX and Project Management teams.

Detailed Responsibilities

Project Delivery:

• Working collaboratively with Product Management and Frontend Engineering to ideate, scope, plan, estimate, coordinate, derisk and deliver large company-roadmap level projects.
• Identifying process bottlenecks and opportunities for continuous improvement of our software delivery processes.
• Mentoring the Frontend team on modern best practices in Software Development.
• Identifying and flagging risks early, working proactively to remove blockers for the team.
• Allocating frontend engineering bandwidth based on business needs.

Business Alignment:

• Partner with Backend, Infrastructure, Product, UX & Design teams to come up with creative technology solutions to business problems.
• Communicating technical topics effectively to business partners.
• Improving visibility into frontend engineering projects, architecture and development workflows for business partners.
• Translating business needs and priorities for the frontend engineers and ensuring that they are aligned with the business.

Team Building & Management:

• Attracting, hiring & retaining highly skilled engineers.
• Assessing skills & building career development plans for the team.
• Mentoring the team on both Technical and Management aspects.
• Raising the general leadership level of the team.
• Setting actionable goals for the team, aligned with company and department goals.
• Fostering good working relationships both within the team and between frontend engineers and their partners.

Evolving the Frontend Platform:

• Constantly evaluating and stress testing our frontend tech stack and identifying opportunities & risks.
• Keeping up with the latest trends in frontend technologies, especially as it relates to e-commerce experience.
• Nurturing the health and architecture of our frontend platforms as we regularly add features to it.
• Collaboratively building a frontend platform roadmap and driving the delivery and execution of it.
• Driving continuous testing/integration/delivery best practices for frontend platforms.
• Fostering healthy discussion on technology topics within the team and drive them towards making data-informed decisions.
• Ensuring that our production frontend applications and build pipelines are performant, reliable, responsiveness, maintainable and of high quality with minimal tech debt.

Individual Contribution:
While this position is not expected to be an individual contributor on a consistent basis, a person filling this role is expected to be hands-on enough to be able to jump in and help their team with technical issues or handle production spelunking as needed. To this end, picking a small project or two every now and then to keep in touch with our stack is expected.

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years of relevant software development experience with at least 4 of those years successfully managing and building technical teams of 15+ engineers and engineering managers.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects using Agile development practices. Experience with Continuous Delivery is a big plus.
• Experience with Single Page Applications & Javascript Client-Side MVC frameworks. Experience with Ember and React is a big plus.
• Experience with node.js and Docker-based build pipelines.
• Experience building high-traffic frontend-experience-heavy sites and native mobile applications.
• Experience building native mobile experiences that take advantage of the platform’s unique capabilities.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs.
• Experience in the e-commerce domain is a big plus.
• Experience with Internationalization and Localization is a big plus.
• Experience with building accessible sites.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills.
• A good eye for Design and UX principles.
• A passion for mentoring and building strong technical leaders.

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Dollar Shave Club is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, [sexual orientation], national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. 

Reasonable Accommodation: Dollar Shave Club provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request in order to express interest in a position by e-mailing: [email protected] 


Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within Dollar Shave Club will be reviewed at the e-mail address supplied. 

Dollar Shave Club will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban the Box) Ordinance. 

Thank you for considering a career with Dollar Shave Club