Job Description
This Senior Director / VP Engineering will manage a team of developers and engineers, collaborate with product managers, and continue to build our retail and enterprise gifting platform(s). This position has a broad scope of operations, managing human and technological resources, organizing targets and milestones as well as general leadership of the development team. They will establish a focus for the engineering team and make sure that deadlines are met, with their main focus being ensuring execution.
What you'll do
Work closely with the founders to execute on the product vision, go to market and react quickly to new opportunities
Hiring and leading the development team
Leading the security aspects of the business and acting as a security officer for the company
Managing multiple projects while communicating with the development team and other business units
Customers first: You will have two customers, internal and external. You need to understand the needs of the customer and focus on creating products that are customer centric
Support filing SRED, working with NRC/IRAP and similar programs
QA and unit testing; you embrace automation and you have reasonable goals for both automated testing and unit tests, constantly trying to improve code quality and testing
Technical evangelist by embracing blogging and public speaking, acting as an evangelist for the industry and Giftagram
Manage expectations, build technology, nurture the business culture and inspire people
Roll up your sleeves and dive in where needed. Like the rest of our team you’ll be hands-on helping with projects outside your job description
Qualifications
You have worked extensively in web application development: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP/Laravel/Symfony, MySQL/RDS, Vue.js, ReactJS, GraphQL
iOS (Swift), Android (Java), Web (Vue, React) application development
Machine learning (e.g. customer to gift scoring)
Architectural understanding of AWS platforms, specifically ECS/Docker, CodePipeline, Redis and RDS
Github (including workflows/CI)
Triaging and using ticketing software such as Jira or Clickup
RESTful API design
Agile (Scrum) part of your role is to act as a Scrum Master
React / Laravel / Symfony experience
E-commerce/mobile technology experience working with and building eCommerce platforms
Big data analytics architecture
Stripe / Payment processing. Experience with other payments or crypto payments a plus
3rd Party e-commerce platform integrations such as Shopify
Disaster planning and Capacity Planning
Security expertise (CISSP) an asset
About Giftagram
Giftagram is reinventing the timeless art of gifting. We build and manage programs that make it easy to appreciate, reward and inspire loyalty for clients and employees. Our GiftCenter platform gives clients access to a curated marketplace of gifts from local partners and national brands. Relationships are at the core of our business, and we are fanatic about creating an environment of success for all of our client partners, gift vendors and employees.