[Hiring] Director of Client Engineering @GoCharting

Role Description

You will be accountable for what GoCharting's web terminal, mobile apps and website ship, when they ship and how reliably they work. The role is full-time and remote from Europe, reports to the Chief Executive Officer, and leads a team across India and Europe, with working hours that overlap the Chennai team. This is an immediate need. It is a leadership role: you direct the team and review its work rather than carry a feature queue. Client engineering needs one accountable owner for delivery, standards and staffing, and you are that owner. At 3 to 6 months, releases should ship on the dates committed and pass a release gate that you own, and you should have the senior engineers and the QA lead in place.

What you'll do

• Own delivery — commit dates for the terminal, mobile apps and website with the Head of Product, and answer for hitting them
• Set and enforce engineering standards — branching, code review, CI/CD and the release gate, applied the same way to every engineer; the QA lead reports to you
• Build the team — hire, develop and structure engineering managers, a staff engineer, terminal and mobile engineers and the QA lead
• Raise technical quality — make the architecture decisions for the web terminal and mobile apps, and review the hardest designs yourself
• Manage managers — set goals, review performance and coach the engineering managers who report to you
• Report on delivery and quality — publish a regular view of delivery dates, defects and release health to the executive team

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering on production web or mobile products
• Has led an engineering organization of 10 or more engineers
• Has managed engineering managers, not only individual contributors
• Has owned release and quality standards for a production product: branching, code review, CI/CD and a release gate
• Has led engineering for a trading, brokerage, fintech or market-data product (any one counts)
• Based in Europe, in a UK or EU time zone, with at least 4 hours of working-day overlap with 09:00–18:00 IST

Nice-to-haves

• Real-time or data-dense web applications, such as charting or WebSocket-driven UIs (adds the ability to judge terminal architecture)
• Mobile app delivery to the App Store and Google Play (adds oversight of mobile releases)
• Leading teams split across India and Europe or the US (adds ease with our time zones)
• Setting up QA automation and release gating from scratch (adds speed on the release gate)
• A charting SDK or developer-facing library (adds depth on the charting platform)

Logistics

• Location: Remote - Europe (UK and EU time zones), at least 4 hours of overlap with 09:00–18:00 IST
• Employment type: Full-time
• Entity: GoCharting Inc
• Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
• Start date: ASAP