Overview:
Two Barrels in Spokane, Washington is hiring as many Directors of Software Engineering as we can find to lead our growing team of developers. You'll be a leader of how we engineer stuff. From software to architecture. We're not really hung up on titles here... so call yourself Director, or Head, or Conductor. We kinda like Conductor as your main role will be ensuring that our engineering team stays on the rails. Our "Director" level is a level here in development. You could say we're still engineering it as we speak, but our main goal is that our directors of this or that have groups of engaged engineers and coders that they are technically leading, pushing, and mentoring to be better engineers and make better products here. We run about 50 products and you'll be in charge of 15-30 engineers. Or less... Or more... It's fluid and the driving force is doing good work and making employees happy.
You're an excellent coder still, we're talking hardcore tech skills with an affinity for open source. But you also really enjoy mentoring and supporting other engineers when it comes to technical leadership to tackle the most impactful projects across the organization. We don't view our Director level as "managers". We have Software Development Managers and Operations Managers that aren't super technical based. Within our company, this is the career path coders take that would rather stay more technical than people manager.
This is a remote or work whatever you want position. We'd prefer you be around Spokane, Salt Lake, or Austin to have a hub base out of one of our three main technical offices, but we're open to good talent anywhere in the US.
Location:
Spokane WA, Austin TX, Salt Lake UT vicinity preferred
Duration:
Full Time
Wage:
$200,000/year. We are family owned and run, so there's no share compensation or bonus structure as part of the compensation package.
Responsibilities:
- All Engineering: Software, Database, Architecture, etc.
- Manage and scale our teams for future growth
- Develop solutions and applications for business services, while leading and mentoring the team
- Focus on team culture and personal development
- Ensure technical feasibility of software and API designs
- Drive product roadmap and execution, and participate in technical design
- Identify and correct issues that impact performance, reliability, and scalability
Minimum Qualifications:
- You can show a lot of screwups you've had and how you've pivoted on large scale applications
- You can show how you've lead and managed large scale software and developer engineering teams
- 7+ years' experience with software development and engineering (Ruby preferred but not required)
- 5+ years' experience managing and developing software development teams of 15-30 engineers and support
- Understanding of cloud (AWS) architectures and design patterns
- Experience working cross functionally in an Agile environment
- Experience developing mission critical applications and solutions
- Ability to design complete systems. Up to date on industry trends, best practices and change management
- 10-15 years of front-end, back-end and REST API software design and implementation of commercial software products or 3-5 years of SaaS based product development
Preferred Qualifications:
- You're a nice person
- You're amazing at communicating but also the true technical lead with all things engineering and development
- You have led a team of 30+ hardworking, passionate, smart people and helped them and the company they work for achieve!
Why you might like this job:
We're family owned and operated. It's a high high impact role, and the company isn't driven by building a product we hope will sell someday. We're into open source and you should be also. We have a lot of good humans that work here, but we want to help them grow and fulfill their mental stimulation. We need help with that process and we as a company are going to accomplish amazing things along the way. You might consider yourself an Anti - Thought Leader...
Benefits:
- Great Wage & Success Meetings with your manager
- Work From Home comfort package & company provided equipment
- 22 days paid time off annually, PLUS 4 paid holidays
- 4% 401k employer matching through Fidelity
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
- Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Flexible hours
- Coffee shop next door
- Crappy parking? Oh, I mean a cool downtown location for easy public transportation options...
Top Skills
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Two Barrels is a Professional Services as a Product Company. ( A PSAAP - Duh! ) We run our company via product life cycles. We use tech to make amazing products and invest heavily in humans to help our clients with their business services needs.
Two Barrels is family-owned and operated, employs over 650 good humans across the nation, and services over 3 million active businesses nationwide. As we've grown, we've maintained a 95% employee retention rate. We have no debt, no investors, no venture capital, and no private equity.
What does it mean to be family-owned and operated?
Well, it's not perfect. But growth, profits, KPIs, endless investor meetings, warrants, options pools, vesting, or manipulating employees to be indentured servants in exchange for paper shares that won't make you rich, aren't things we have to deal with here.
We try to do good work and see where it goes. That's our actual mission statement. We try to make our customers and our employees happy. We get to focus on that versus making investors happy. We are well aware of competing with startups, and VC and PE-funded, or worse yet, public companies' total compensation packages, so we bring it up. We are different. Our packages include an excellent salary and 401K to buy stock wherever you want. We try to make our overall benefits better each year as we grow. We offer tough challenges—focusing on the journey as the reward, not the finish line. We try to hire people we enjoy being around.
We're not a platform or an AI cool guy place. We're not software as a service/whatever is the cool thing that gives investors a reason to ask for a higher multiple on their next round of stock dilution. Whoops, I mean, investment for the future.
We make business entity compliance tools. We power over 50,000 Professional Services that do registered agent service, corporate filings, VoIP phones, credit card processing, and various tech products. Here's a few examples of industry leaders riding on our backbone:
https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/service-signup
https://www.registeredagentsinc.com/solutions/
We made a CRM system but focused on a whole stack of solutions for our business services customers and now we're pretty busy and could use your help. Thanks for looking!
Why Work With Us
A mid sized company servicing millions of clients, employing hundreds, but being family owned and operated with no debt, investors, VC, or PE in the tech space is unique. We offer stability, flexibility, and an opportunity to make a high impact almost immediately. We don't sell data to third parties. We're extremely open source and privacy focused.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
As a hybrid employer we have full-time remote employees and employees that live near our offices who have the option to work in-office or from home. There are just a few, select roles that specify and require some in-office time.
