Head of Engineering

Remote

Full Time

Senior Manager/Supervisor

About the job

We are seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the growth of our Software Engineering organization.

This is a unique opportunity to lead and work alongside an experienced and growing team that excels at building high-quality products at scale for clients.

As Head of Engineering, you’ll serve as both a technical leader and a people manager. You’ll help shape the direction of our engineering function, manage a growing team, and ensure we deliver consistently excellent work to our clients.

This is a “player-coach” role, you’ll be involved in strategic technology decisions and delivery leadership while gradually transitioning away from hands-on coding as the team scales. This position reports to the CEO.

Qualifications

Essential skills:

Proven ability to collaborate with clients to analyze business requirements, develop effective technical solutions, and communicate those solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Deep experience with NodeJS, React, and Amazon Web Services, with experience in other platforms (Java / Spring Boot, C# / .NET, Ruby on Rails, Go[lang]) considered helpful.

The role also requires a voracious appetite to learn and apply new skills. You should be skilled at building web-based software or mobile apps, excel at building software with different sets of tools and in different client environments, and deeply understand how to form and lead software development teams that build excellent products.

Key Responsibilities include:

Manage, mentor, and scale a team of engineering team leads
Participate in Discovery calls to understand the client's technical environment, constraints, and goals, and assist in the creation of proposals
Define, refine, and implement clear career growth paths and professional development frameworks
Own the technical direction and engineering standards across the firm
Foster a culture of technical excellence and pragmatism
Define and document Best Practices that enable excellent team performance
Design and manage a scalable and effective engineering org structure
Contribute to company strategy and leadership decision-making
Build excellent software products as an individual contributor and technical leader

We’re looking for someone who:

Has 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ in leadership
Has experience in a consulting or services firm
Is comfortable moving between strategy and execution
Has built or scaled engineering teams before
Communicates clearly and leads with context and care

Benefits

Remote
Open PTO
401k
Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Short/Long Term Disability
Profit Sharing
Company Retreats

Company Description

Bellwood Labs is a dynamic Product Development Consultancy. We're a team of developers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs that companies turn to when they want to take a software product from conception to creation.

Our Mission

Bellwood Labs seeks to be and be known as the most trusted partner to develop and advance software products.

Our Core Values

We Embrace Your Goals
We Own our Commitments
We Succeed through Empathy
We Take the Next Step

Join our tight-knit team of sharp technologists to leverage your talents and grow your skills. We are looking forward to meeting with you!

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(1) We Embrace Your Goals – We seek to understand the goals of our team, our clients, and our partners – we are at our best when the work we do helps people reach their goals.
(2) We Own our Commitments – How we handle the commitments we make earns or destroys trust. We work diligently to make commitments we can keep, and when we can’t keep them, we own that failure and do whatever is needed to make it right.
(3) We Take the Next Step – The work in front of us can seem large, but by focusing on taking the one simple action we can take to move each task forward, we build momentum and trust with each other and with clients.
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