[Hiring] Director, Development @Studio Designer

Role Description

As our Director, Development, you will lead a development team responsible for crafting, building, and maintaining the key features as well as pieces of frontend infrastructure that support our all-in-one platform for our customers to collaborate and drive their businesses using Studio Designer.

• Guide and support the team in solving impactful customer and product challenges.
• Establish a strong technical direction for frontend architecture and development practices.
• Support engineers in their career development and growth.
• Balance overall project priorities, team morale, technical debt, product quality, and customer needs.
• Report to and work directly with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Qualifications

• Technical knowledge and depth to develop and mentor others.
• Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leads.
• Experience establishing and measuring OKRs or team goals.
• Critical thinking and the ability to engage in constructive conflict.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable leading multiple and often contending priorities.
• Regularly consider business lens and tradeoffs for technical development problems.
• Industry experience in interior design is a plus.
• 10+ years’ experience in software development or hands-on site reliability engineering of fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience operating SaaS software systems in a production environment.
• Experience with AWS or other major cloud providers.
• Experience developing development platforms and services (e.g., microservices, APIs).
• Experience architecting, designing, and building frontend components and applications.
• Strong experience and solid understanding of JSON, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, WinForms, and Web Services/Web API.
• UI testing frameworks such as Playwright or other testing tools, such as NUnit or MS Test.
• Experience or desire to work with and in an AI-driven environment and tooling.
• Extensive experience utilizing hands-on development practices using Angular (strongly preferred, Typescript, or similar tools).

Requirements

• Strong Object-Oriented foundation, including formal process/methodology experience (Rational, etc.).
• Large-scale, cloud-based development with SOA or micro-services.
• .NET (Core, 5+ preferred).
• Mobile or mobile web development experience.
• Ability to work in Central or Mountain time zone.

Benefits

• Remote first! (States not included in remote options are: Hawaii, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia.)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Involuntary and Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance.
• Voluntary Long-term Disability.
• HSA with employer match.
• Voluntary Pet Insurance.
• Flexible paid time off, company-paid holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.