Director of Engineering, Justice
Our mission is to protect life.
We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of police records so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.
It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.
Location: Seattle, WA
Your Impact
Drive the Justice team to deliver new software and revolutionize criminal justice. The goal is to help ease the pain of victims and the accused by helping public defenders, prosecutors, and court systems manage their overwhelming workloads to ensure justice is administered more fairly and efficiently. Leverage our existing products, which currently serve over 500,000 law enforcement users, to create real benefits to communities as a whole by improving this critical system.
This is an internal start up opportunity. Help grow the Justice team from its current nucleus to its own global business. Initially this role will focus on helping the team architect, code and mentor its way forward. Over time, you will grow multiple engineering teams and scale Justice globally.
Your Day-to-Day
- Build a culture of quality, safety and collaboration
- Drive the execution of your teams by supporting your engineers and managers in leading planning, prioritization, stand-ups, and team retro meetings
- Lead the technical direction of the team through architectural discussions and code reviews
- Work with product managers and product designers to build products for the criminal justice system
- Join forces with recruiting to hire a top-notch engineering team
- Coach managers and engineers with weekly 1:1s
- Co-own, plan, and execute on the roadmap
- Set the highest standard for reliability, security, and operational excellence
Basic Qualifications
- Copious empathy
- A deep desire to improve outcomes for those impacted by the judicial system
- 10+ years professional software development experience
- 5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
- 2+ years of experience coaching other engineering managers and leading multiple engineering teams
- Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Start up experience building teams from 0
- Managed geographically distributed teams
- Experience in managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
- Experience working with multiple SQL or NoSQL datastores
- Experience in Javascript or Typescript, HTML5, CSS, and component-based frameworks like React
- Experience with logging and metrics tools like MixPanel, Splunk, DataDog
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- A supportive parental leave policy
- An award-winning office/working environment
- Ride along with real police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, get inspired
- And more...
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.