Recast is hiring a Director of Engineering to accelerate our engineering and product development practice. You will lead the full engineering organization and own the strategic direction for our software development as we grow.
What You'll Do
- Improve culture of shipping and accountability on the engineering team.
- Drive adoption of AI tools for development and integration of AI-first workflows into the product.
- Hire rapidly to grow the software engineering team while maintaining high quality and culture of excellence.
- Own tech security practice and SOC 2 certification and compliance program.
- Lead intense inter-team collaboration to provision compute, develop algorithms, and present human-usable features.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams, including hiring and developing talent.
- Strong background in owning technical security and compliance programs like SOC 2.
- Ability to foster collaboration across diverse, distributed engineering subteams.
- Track record of improving engineering processes and a culture of delivery.
Nice to Have
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS and/or cloud-first architectures
- Kubernetes and distributed compute
- Building products with data science/machine learning/algorithmic components
Technical Stack
- Rails
- AWS
- Kubernetes (k8s)
- Rlang
Team & Environment
You will lead a flat engineering organization across 6+ countries, consisting of three subteams: app developers, R developers, and infrastructure/platform engineers.
Benefits & Compensation
- Work fully remote wherever you're happiest.
- Competitive remote salary along with early-stage equity.
- Highly skilled coworkers.
- Async-first culture with focus on documentation over standing meetings.
- Autonomy and support to do your best work in your own time.
- Your local holidays plus unmetered PTO (minimum 2 weeks mandatory PTO).
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position. Our team is distributed globally with members in 6+ countries worldwide.
Recast is committed to building a diverse team and encourages applications from under-represented backgrounds in tech.
