Director of Engineering
There’s a digital revolution going on while the world works remotely – have you noticed? We’re growing our engineering team in Boston to create, scale, and grow our products using the latest technologies to build simple yet elegant solutions with our end-users in mind. We are passionate about technology, we are outcome (not output) oriented, we are motivated by the impact of our work, and we wake up every day excited about shaping the way employees experience their digital workplace. Sound like you?
Hi, we’re Nexthink. We’re not just the leader in the digital employee experience management category, we invented the category. Our solutions combine real-time analytics, automation and employee feedback across all endpoints to help IT teams delight people at work. Our cloud-native platform pinpoints issues and solutions, automates response, and helps companies continuously improve their employees’ experience, freeing IT teams to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization . We have millions of endpoints deployed, we’ve surpassed $100M in ARR, and we’ve recently secured $180M in a Series D financing round reaching a company valuation of $1.1B, but we’re just getting started.
Job Description
As our first Director of Engineering in Boston, you will play a key role in growing and shaping a team from the ground up. You will have the opportunity to hire, onboard, coach, mentor, and support the career growth of an engineering team that is connected to the heart of Nexthink’s product. Your team will interface and liaise with our engineering teams in Europe, but you will also have access to our executive team who is mostly based in Boston. We are looking for an excellent communicator who values collaborating across teams, time zones, and functions, distilling technical details and providing clear insights to solve complex challenges. If working across cultures in an environment that values solving complex problems as one team excites you, this may be the job for you.
You will also bring your technical skills and capabilities to the team, driving engineering processes, architectures, and technical roadmaps in alignment with the leadership team. Your input will be valued from architectural decisions, to code reviews, prototypes, and codebase. You will be responsible for the technical debt, security, quality, and technical decisions in an efficient manner. Collaborating with UX and product management, you will help write user stories, build product roadmaps, and ensure smooth cooperation with teams from discovery to delivery. You’ll also work cross-functionally with teams like marketing, sales, HR, customer success, and more. You will evangelize and continuously improve our agile methodologies for software development to iterate on our products in a lean way, and you will be a trusted leader to help evolve the next generation of our multi-tenant cloud-based platforms and solutions.
Qualifications
You’d be a great fit if you have:
B.A./MSc in Computer Science or equivalent
Previous experience building, developing, and leading engineering teams in an Agile environment
Experience collaborating with internationally distributed teams
Desire to work in a hypergrowth-paced environment, effectively managing cultural differences and embracing change
Strong knowledge around the technology stack and processes for full stack development, microservices and cloud architecture and deployment
Experience with Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker, Clickhouse, AWS, React, etc.
Experience leading cross-functional teams to align product and engineering roadmaps, generating the highest business value
A “get things done” mindset, willing to work as one team to get concrete outcomes
Profound know-how in agile practices and frameworks
Additional Information
We are nearly 700 employees strong in 21 countries across 8 different time zones speaking 60+ languages. We are positive, we get things done, we keep growing, and we are one team, we are Nexthink.
At Nexthink, we believe actions are stronger than words when it comes to diversity, inclusivity, and equity in the workplace. Nexthinkers are multinational and multilingual, and come from all walks of life. We are committed to hiring a genuinely representative workforce that can create solutions and foster innovation for the modern digital employee experience.