Director of Software Engineering

Better Trucks Last Mile Inc. in Franklin Park, IL seeks Director of Software Engineering.

  • Design and architect solutions that align with company strategic goals.
  • Build and develop cloud-native solutions on the Google Cloud Platform, ensuring scalability and elasticity.
  • Collaborate with multiple application development teams, executive management, and operational leadership to drive the evolution of our IT organization.

Architectural Leadership:

  • Design and architect major solutions, components, and systems that cater to the needs of our customers,
    employees, and partners.
  • Ensure these solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business objectives. Cloud-Native Development: Utilize cloud-native principles to build and develop designed solutions on the Google Cloud Platform.
  • Leverage low overhead elastic infrastructure to optimize performance and cost-efficiency.

Team Direction:

  • Provide overall direction and guidance to multiple application development teams working across various applications and platforms.
  • Ensure cohesive and efficient development processes.

Organizational Evolution:

  • Contribute to the evolution of the Better Trucks IT organization by identifying the optimal mix of contractors and full-time employees.
  • Determine the right distribution of development talent across global locations.

Strategic Collaboration:

  • Work closely with executive management and operational leadership to discuss roadmap, strategy, and execution related to the evolution of Better Trucks’ business and IT organization.
  • Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with business goals.

Culture Building:

  • Create, drive, and inspire a culture that fosters innovation and promotes success across the IT organization.
  • Encourage continuous improvement and adoption of best practices. Telecommuting is permitted within commutable distance to the office.

Must possess a Bachelor: Degree in Applied Computer Science, Computer Science,
Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or a closely
related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related role.

Must possess experience with:

(i) Creating, building, and deploying custom software applications on Google Cloud;

(ii) Architecting and developing cloud-native distributed systems and applications;

(iii) Agile and cloud-first software methodologies across all aligned teams to develop, implement, and test cloud-native solutions;

(iv) Cloud-first, event-driven architecture for seamless data integration and real-time processing for distributed apps and systems;

(v) Architecting apps and systems while utilizing patterns such as microservices, service mesh, event sourcing, and CQRS to enhance system scalability and maintainability;

(vi) 5 years’ experience with architecting, developing, and building digital applications such as mobile apps, mobile web apps, or PWA’s;

(vii) 5 years’ experience leveraging enterprise programming languages
such as Java or C#.

 

Salary: $200,000 to $210,000

 

Email resumes to mike@bettertrucks.com

Ref Job 102