Head of Engineering
Dext, Bulgaria
Job Description
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WE ARE DEXT!
Our suite of tools makes accountants more productive, profitable and powerful. In doing so we give them back the most precious commodity, time, which they can then use to add greater value to their clients.
Accountants and bookkeepers are the backbones of every successful business. For more than a decade we’ve empowered our partners with innovative technology solutions to make businesses better. Dext allows them to meet the challenges they face today, tomorrow and in the future.
Architecture amp; Stack
Our systems are mostly done using Ruby on Rails. We use Python for machine learning. We have a large web app, a few smaller ones, a few mobile apps (Android and iOS), a growing fleet of services (in the sense of Service-Oriented Architecture) talking via HTTP.
Team, Challenges amp; You
The development team is mostly in Bulgaria. Because we’re a remote company we have people in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Varna, Ruse. Everyone can choose where to work from.
We have reasonable processes, organised Kanban boards, stand-ups that don’t last more than 10 minutes and product owners writing detailed (sometimes a bit too detailed) specifications. We value highly the quality of the code and good practices. We’ve suffered enough without them. Our management is well aware of that. We’ve even had the need to explain that we don’t need so much time for paying back technical debt. Some of us even talk about those things (code reviews, automated testing, refactoring).
About the role
Responsibilities
- Oversee and support mission-oriented development teams;
- Manage software development teams by helping them flesh our requirements, set goals and commit to timelines;
- Hire engineers and coordinate their training;
- Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools;
Requirements
- Work experience as a director of engineering or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department;
- Hands-on experience in software development;
- Distributed systems and understanding of scale
- Good understanding of agile methodologies and product companies;
- Leadership abilities with a strategic mind;
- Excellent project management skills and stakeholder management;
- BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant experience.
Benefits
Remote work is now the norm.
The difference is that we've been fully remote for many years now, and know how to properly work remotely. Additional benefits for our Bulgaria-based team include an employer-paid additional medical insurance, life and risk insurance, and 25-days of paid annual leave.
When there's no pandemic, the team gets together for monthly team drinks and an off-site somewhere beautiful twice a year. We hope to resume these activities as soon as the situation permits.
We strive for quality and a stress-free work environment.
We want our colleagues to learn and grow.
We’ll be happy to have a like-minded person join us!
What you will be a part of:
We are a highly ambitious, innovative, market-leading FinTech. We are a global, well-funded business but have the dexterity and pace of a scale-up. We are uncompromising in our desire to achieve our best, day-in-day-out, and we have three clear values which guide everything we do:
BE BRAVE
"Everyone in the company has a voice to challenge ideas and the status quo."
BE EXCEPTIONAL
"We set high standards for ourselves. We aim to be exceptional at what we do."
BE TOGETHER
"We are one team. There is no such thing as individual success without team success."
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