Director of Engineering

Company:	Wireless Generation Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (0)
Job Location(s):	Brooklyn
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:	Not Provided
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Engineering - General, Management and Supervision

Position Description

Location:	Brooklyn, NY
Duration:	Regular Full-Time
Relocation Available:	No

Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems, and services that help educators teach smarter. With its mobile assessment software, the company invented a better way to give classroom assessments and make data-based instructional decisions. Now Wireless Generation has broken new ground with technology that analyzes student data and customizes curriculum to individual learning needs. Wireless Generation also builds large-scale data systems that centralize student data and give educators and parents unprecedented visibility into learning. A Web 2.0 collaboration and knowledge network for educators propagates proven approaches across schools. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students. More information is available at www.WirelessGeneration.com

Director of Engineering

Job Description:

We are looking for a seasoned Director-level manager with strong technical expertise and excellent leadership ability to manage a team of Software Engineers and Architects working on multiple projects within our product development department. The ideal candidate will lead the identification of new technologies and best practices in the industry and bring them to bear against the many challenges of a fast-growing, hi-tech company building products and custom solutions ranging from rich mobile applications to Web 2.0 tools and large-scale data systems.

If you are interested in cutting-edge technologies, if you consider yourself a star technologist, and if your management abilities have worked wonders in the past, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities of Director of Engineering:

Build and retain productive teams through strong recruitment, mentoring and career management.
Lead a department of software developers and architects, establishing development practices and standards.
Collaborate with a team of peers to sustain effectiveness within a growing mid-sized environment.
Engage with and challenge requirements while designing solutions based on deep technical knowledge of web, client and database architectures.
Set high level design objectives; review and critique software designs proposed by architects.

Requirements of Director of Engineering:

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, during which you’ve developed extremely strong Computer Science fundamentals and analytical abilities.
5+ years of experience as a Software or Data Systems Architect as well as 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, delivering and supporting large scale applications and/or data systems. Experience with Data Analytics, ETL best practices and tools for enterprise data integration is preferred.
Several years of experience leading a department of 10+ persons, managing practices, careers and recruitment.
Strong SQL and data modeling skills, as well as significant real-world experience with commercial RDMBSs.
Expertise in several programming languages such as Java, C++ or C# as well as OO design. A taste for scripting languages such as Python or Ruby is preferred.
Ability to quickly establish credibility with skilled developers and architects.
Taste for simplicity and elegance in technical design.
Experience with software development methodologies, agile software development values and practices, especially Scrum preferred.

Wireless Generation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.