Director of Engineering - Data Services (LA)
About Route
Route is helping people discover and celebrate the world's brands through a completely reimagined e-commerce marketplace that directly connects and empowers both consumers and brands. Route’s unique platform takes a holistic approach to online shopping, rethinking the consumer experience from discovery to delivery via the Route app, while offering a suite of features that provides merchants the tools necessary to enhance the overlooked post-purchase experience. Since launching in 2018, Route has built a network of over 1.5 million app users and 7,000 merchants. The company has offices in Lehi, UT and Los Angeles, CA. For more information go to route.com
About the Role
Route's software engineers are developing next-generation technologies that change how millions of users see, share, and discover the world's products. We are looking for versatile engineering leaders that bring a background in distributed systems design and development, large-scale data storage and processing systems, UI design, mobile, and much more.
As Route continues to grow, so does our data. We are looking for a key leader to join our platform group and provide leadership to multiple teams working on common data services. These services include both key transactional based microservices along with the platform for aggregating the data for data science and business intelligence purposes. This leader would own the vision and execution to continue to scale and develop this core data platform by providing leadership across multiple teams within the platform group.
Route is an engineering company. We need our Engineering Leaders to bring fresh ideas, be excited to take on new problems across the stack, and embrace the startup culture where we must be comfortable being uncomfortable at times. We aspire to hire the best people with a broad set of technical skills, representing a globally diverse audience, and bringing a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and cultures.
Your participation:
- Lead the design, implementation, and improvement of our most critical data services
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Reach out across the engineering organization to ensure cross team requirements are understood and met
- Build the team through hiring, setting up team processes and motivating team leaders and members
- Mentor team leads and managers on engineering leadership through example and coaching
- Encourage engineering best practices, design, and coding standards
- Embody a culture of innovation, transparency, and radical candor
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- 10+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience architecting and developing large scale systems
- Experience managing data in both relational and non relational stores
- Experience with one or more general purpose languages, e.g. Go, Java, Python, Javascript
- Interest and ability to learn other languages as needed
Preferred qualifications:
- MS degree in Computer Science or similar technical field
- Deep technical expertise with one or more of the following: AWS, data lakes, data warehouses, microservices based architectures and distributed systems
Benefits:
Route offers an array of benefits including generous salaries, stock options, 100% healthcare coverage, and an unlimited PTO policy.
Route is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.