The Head of Engineering is responsible for supporting the engineering efforts at Prenda. This includes creating a supportive and challenging environment where engineers can improve at their craft while producing critical and meaningful work.
Multiple Platform Teams also report to the Head of Engineering. These teams help provide the infrastructure and support to make the Prenda software experience more dynamic and flexible.
Responsibilities
- Own the vision and strategy for engineering at Prenda
- Implement platforms, tools, and practices that will improve engineering efforts as well as serve the needs of the product experience teams and persona groups
- Support engineers as they solve difficult problems and improve the experience
- Support the platform teams: Tech amp; Tools, Data Insights, and Platform Architecture
- Partner with Persona Leads to provide engineering headcount needed to reach their goals
- Partner with Product leadership to create best practices that enable Product Experience teams to build effective, delightful, and efficient customer experiences
Requirements
- Learner, someone who lives the Prenda Core Values
- Empathetic leader who understands how to set direction and rally team members to build the future
- Exceptional interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to engender trust and resolve conflicts
- Able to receive feedback and direction with optimism
Experience
- Extensive senior or principal level engineering experience
- Have scaled architecture in complex platform environments or codebases
- Have implemented best practices, cultural norms, or routines that have improved engineering culture, happiness, and retention
- Engineering leadership experience (gt; 3 years)
- Experience in a rapidly scaling organization with complex engineering and architecture challenges with demonstrated success in leadership
Benefits
- Fully remote team
- Competitive salary
- Open PTO policy