Director of Engineering (Python, Docker, GraphQL, Ansible, AWS)
FineTune is seeking a director of engineering to lead a team of 13 developers. The director of engineering will be the expert in residence around infrastructure scaling, python, docker, database performance and microservices. S/he must have experience working with at least 3 production released software projects/products. S/he should be hands on tech and comfortable solving complex system problems while making sure software team understands clearly what they are building, while refactoring/architecting new and existing services to scale to support 5 million users.
S/he should also be comfortable interacting with customer and provide guidance on the technical feasibility and scope of engineering/rearchitecting needed to solve problems and deliver features.
If the director of engineering desires, one could also manage, mentor, performance review engineers in the team. Director of engineering will also work with 3 tech leads and QA team to find best ways to increase the performance of the development team and enhance software quality and development speed.
S/he will interface with CTO to continuously drive innovation and new product development while promoting and advancing the scalability and modularization of current platform we are working on with Collegeboard. S/he will be essential member of the leadership team to drive company vision and mission while scaling the software for larger audience.
About FineTune Learning
We are working on a variety of projects from componentizing and enhancing front end reactjs to optimize user experience and reusability of components. We are constantly collecting data on users to help recommend better resources for their learning. We build interesting but simple dashboards that may help teachers become more data driven. We work on behavioral experiments via randomized control trial through our software. Our backend is mostly python/sqlalchemy and supports graphql and diverse set of databases depending on the application. Continuous integration and continuous deployment are next in our pipeline. We are facing challenges in scalability and automation which we plan to tackle in 2018 and refactor code to increase the software performance and support 5 million users. We work with our design team to make this experience engaging for effective learning. We practice agile and scrum and strive to continuously improve.
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Contact Info
- Company Website: https://www.finetunelearning.com/
