Optimus Engineering Director, EverCommerce – REMOTE (Canada)

EverCommerce [Nasdaq: EVCM] is a leading service commerce platform, providing vertically tailored, integrated SaaS solutions that help more than 600,000 global service-based businesses accelerate growth, streamline operations, and increase retention. Our modern digital and mobile applications create predictable, informed, and convenient experiences between customers and their service professionals. Specializing in Home & Field Services, Health Services, and Fitness & Wellness industries, EverCommerce solutions include end-to-end business management software, embedded payment acceptance, marketing technology, and customer engagement applications.

We are building an extraordinary company and looking for talented, energetic, and motivated people to join our team. You can learn more about our Company, Culture and Values here: https://careers.evercommerce.com/us/en

Trade professionals are great at their trade but may not be great at running their business. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to develop a platform of curated content that will help a trade professional achieve their goals.

Our ideal candidate is deeply experienced in both managing other engineers and building software with an Agile mindset. You care deeply about diversity, growth, and enabling success in others. You will contribute to solutions from inception to deployment, and everything in between. The solutions you and your team build must not only work for Joist today, but also support rapid iteration and innovation as we grow. Your work is going to be nothing less than redefining the home renovation industry, and your tool belt is full of tools that assist with software delivery, team growth and development, and more.

Responsibilities:

Leadership: You guide a team by example. As a leader on our development team, you instill the values of kindness, diversity, quality, and ownership in the people around you and provide feedback on how to improve as a team.

Teamwork: Many of the problems we encounter require insight from many parts of the business. Your ability to coordinate and communicate with your peers is essential to our success.

Architecture: You have a strong understanding of the building blocks of a robust and scalable system. You translate business problems into well designed systems. You have the experience to know what to build and the discipline to know what not to.

CS Fundamentals: You understand algorithms, data structures, design patterns and data storage technologies. You select the right tool for the right job.

Delivery Focused: Code on a laptop doesn’t solve problems. You know that a project is only done once it's delivered and validated. Residential construction is a large problem to tackle. You are inspired to complete a project because you know that 5 more problems are waiting to be tackled, and you do it all without sacrificing quality.

Passion: Hard problems are not solved overnight. It takes a special kind of attitude and hunger to disrupt an entrenched industry. Your passion is what you share with every teammate. Passion for technology, passion for working as a team, passion for change, and passion for building an industry revolutionizing product.

Skills and Experience needed for success in this role:

• 5+ years of experience leading other engineers as their direct manager

• 5+ years of professional industry experience as a software developer working in agile teams, with experience in some of our technology stack: React/JS, node.js, Typescript, strapi, AWS SAM

• A successful record of mentoring and growing other engineers during your years of experience

• Be a trusted partner for senior management to determine best solutions, help drive alignment and implement decisions throughout the team.

• A proven ability to take ownership of software projects, from scoping and estimation all the way to being live in production

• You know how to join and partner with Product Management to experiment, iterate, and ship fast for customers

• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results.

• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely about deeply technical topics in an easy-to-understand way

• You hold strong opinions about how to build great software and products but are receptive to the views of others; you know when to be flexible and when to hold steady

• You are an expert in agile software development processes

Bonus Qualities:

• You have worked at other small to mid-sized companies that went through periods of growth and team scaling

• You have experience managing cross-functional teams that operate with “dev-run” models

• Experience working in cloud microservice architectures

• Experience in RESTful API design

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code for use in cloud computing platforms (AWS)

• You hold a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or in a similar field. While not a requirement, it helps to have a common baseline of understanding of CS principles when working with other technical people.

Where:

The EverCommerce team is distributed globally, with teams in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Jordan, New Zealand, and Australia. With a widely distributed team, we are used to working remotely across different time zones. This role can be based anywhere in Canada, with a preference being in the Greater Toronto Area – if you’re close to one of our offices, we can set you up in-office or you can work 100% remotely. Please note that you must be eligible to work without sponsorship to qualify for this position, and this role may require travel to our Corporate Headquarters in Denver, Colorado, or to other office locations around North America.

Benefits & Perks:

• Flexibility to work where/how you want within your country of employment – in-office, remote, or hybrid

• Robust wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend

• 3 weeks of vacation to start, a paid volunteer day of your choosing, plus 2 floating holidays to celebrate anything of significance to you

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with 4% company match

• Continued investment in your professional development through Udemy