Director of Software Engineer

About Us:
Cart.com is an ecommerce software and services company on a mission to democratize ecommerce and give digital merchants the freedom to grow. We are integrating all the pieces of the ecommerce value chain brands need to thrive, creating a truly end-to-end Ecommerce-as-a-Service platform that helps third party brands move faster, grow more quickly, and deliver on their promises more completely.

The world of ecommerce should be open and inviting, energetic and buzzing with possibilities. It should teach the curious and reward the risk-takers. It should be a magnet for restless spirits and a playground for inventive minds. And it is at Cart.com—where ecommerce belongs to everyone with a hunger to do something great. We’re making something happen that’s never happened before. We’re defining something of profound value to thousands of people who can then improve the lives of millions. That’s how ecommerce works at Cart.com—where “commerce” means service to others, not self-service. We’re growing because we care about the people who are buying.Where employees love our customers’ brands and work hard to solve their problems because they themselves are treated with respect, where goods and services move swiftly because technology is harnessed to meet human needs, not to put barriers between human beings. At Cart.com something magical happens. Ecommerce brings owners together with facilitators, experts with startups, specialists with generalists, and of course, buyers with sellers. Cart.com is no massive, monopolistic juggernaut that squeezes Peter to pay Paul. It is a meeting place. Where entrepreneurs find partners. Where supply meets demand. Where inaction finds inspiration. And where you help great brands build loyal fans.As a Director, you will drive the engineering execution of product delivery, and head teams across the spectrum of ecommerce. You will work closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, Architects and Agile Practitioners to capture, refine and continuously deliver value to the brands we serve.

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a dynamic team throughout our rapidly maturing SDLC
• Oversee the delivery of SaaS product features that meet MVP acceptance criteria
• Working as a member of an Agile Release Train…
• Drive estimation of level of effort for new products, product features, and enhancements
• Collaborate with Designers and PMs to drive value into our targeted markets
• Work with senior leadership to accomplish specific software goals
• Assist in planning and selecting workstreams to improve the product and customer experience
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across product delivery teams
• Assist in designing and architecting software solutions
• Assist in architecting Cloud solutions and defining best practices
• Recommending and integrating new technologies where appropriate
• Coordination of development efforts between teams and product value streams

In your role as an Engineering people manager…

• Managing several teams of software engineers
• Interviewing, hiring and onboarding new teams to execute on new portfolio investments
• Developing hiring strategy in collaboration with product leads and other engineering leaders.
• Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality and time to market imperatives
• Guiding and mentoring your teams through design and code reviews to establish and ensure compliance with standards
• Reviewing code of junior team members and peers for best practices and good software principles
• Managing team output and workstreams, through consistent reporting, metric tracking and KPIs
• Oversee and manage relevant compliance and security concerns
• Training new developers, and mentoring more junior developers

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent military experience
• 13+ years of experience in Application Development, including 10 developing web applications and delivering SaaS
• Delivering large scale software to a cloud environment, GCP, Azure, AWS, K8s, Docker (measured in tens of millions of requests per day or more).
• Strong experience with specific technologies and patterns in use

- Deep experience with .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Webforms, C#, MS SQL - Familiarity with React - Experience with RESTful and GraphQL Apis, IIS - Experience with Distributed systems - Experience with both Microservices architecture and Monolithic architecture

• Experience leading development teams and managing teams within an agile environment
• Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), or other scaling models
• Strong technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality software

Bonus Points:

• Advanced degree in industry-related subject
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement of development practices and processes
• Experience managing both local and remote teams
• Delivering 12 factor applications to GCP
• Deep experience in K8s, GitHub Actions, Datadog
• Prior experience with Release Train membership and managing multiple engineering teams using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

OUR CORE VALUES:

These aren’t just buried somewhere in an employee manual. We live and breathe them. They are on the walls and live in our hearts. They come up constantly in conversations and actions. They govern the decisions of the newest hire all the way up to our CEO:

WE ARE OBSESSED WITH BRANDSWe live for brands and are fanatical about their success.

WE THINK BEYOND THE BOXWe explore new ideas and discover creative solutions. We think openly about how to serve brands and solve problems.

WE DON'T GIVE UPNo one expected this to be easy. We are resilient— we dig in and keep going.

WE SPEAK UPEvery person here has an obligation to question norms, voice concerns, and offer their perspective.

WE WORK TOGETHERWe work with integrity and respect, ask for help, and extend the same help to others.

WE ARE HUMANOur people are our biggest strength. We have fun and make real connections with one another and with the brands we serve.

Cart.com is deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to identify and onboard people from all walks of life. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.