Job Title: Productivity Engineering Lead
We're seeking an exceptional Productivity Engineering Lead to join our team at Ninety, a cutting-edge learning, support, and technology SaaS platform. As a leader in our engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in driving our software development and delivery processes, ensuring the highest standards of quality, performance, and innovation.
At Ninety, we empower organizations to build focused, aligned, and thriving teams. Our platform simplifies the hard work of creating great organizations, and we're looking for a talented individual to help us continue to grow and evolve.
About the Role
As our Productivity Engineering Lead, you will lead multiple engineering teams, reporting to the Head of Product Engineering. You will be responsible for driving technical excellence, ensuring daily software delivery to production, and maintaining the highest standards of quality and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership & Mentorship: Lead a team of software engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to drive their professional growth and productivity.
- Technical Excellence: Oversee the design, development, and deployment of software solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices in coding, architecture, and security.
- Daily Deliverables: Drive a culture of continuous delivery, ensuring that software is delivered to production on a daily basis.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Problem-Solving: Identify and resolve technical challenges related to distributed systems and SaaS operations, employing a proactive and innovative approach.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and enforce robust testing and quality assurance processes to maintain the reliability and scalability of software systems.
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor and optimize the performance of applications, ensuring they meet SLAs and user expectations.
- Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to enhance team efficiency and software quality.
What Success Looks Like
- Deliver market-aligned outcomes.
- Build testable, observable, and independently deployable code.
- Grow and sustain a culture of high-quality and high-value engineering practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Proven experience as a software engineer with a strong track record of delivering high-quality software.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and tech stacks, with a strong understanding of cloud-native architectures.
- Advanced skills with front-end architectures and cross-platform or native mobile development experience.
- Experience in building and operating distributed systems and SaaS applications.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a results-driven mindset.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
About Us as an Employer
We believe in helping our employees flourish. At Ninety, we focus on attracting, developing, and retaining great people. We offer a range of benefits, including:
- Work From Anywhere, giving our employees the freedom and flexibility to work from wherever they need to live their best life.
- As-needed vacation.
- Health and Dental insurance with employer contribution toward premiums.
- Employer Paid Life insurance and Long Term Disability Coverage.
- HSA, FSA, and DCFSA accounts available.
- Productivity/Wellness allowance.
- Generous Paid Parental Leave.
- Professional development allowance.
- Technology allowance.
- Company gatherings with travel allowance.
Our values include:
- G - Get Smart Stuff Done.
- T - Teamwork.
- R - Resilient.
- I - Inquisitive.
- B - Best.
- E - Extra Mile.
If you're a motivated and talented individual who is passionate about driving technical excellence and innovation, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.