Director of Engineering
At Hiya, we are on a mission to modernise the voice call with trust, identity and intelligence. We are trusted by global enterprises, carriers and consumers to provide secure, engaging connections and stop unwanted calls. Built on the world’s leading Voice Performance Platform, Hiya protects people from spam and fraud calls, connects businesses with their customers, and helps carriers secure their networks for all. Our SaaS applications, Hiya Connect and Hiya Protect, serve more than 200M users worldwide, power services like AT&T Call Protect and Samsung Smart Call, and deliver voice performance insights that move businesses forward. We’re passionate about creating a culture where employees love to work, feel supported and energised, and are empowered to create, innovate and challenge the status quo.
We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering based in Seattle. You will lead & grow a team and architect, implement, and maintain a broad set of strategic services. This team provides high-availability, latency-sensitive APIs to carriers, mobile apps, and other partners. Our systems are essential to multiple services at the heart of our product portfolio and business strategy.
You will scale our systems to better serve billions of requests per month. In addition, you will collaborate with co-located and remote colleagues at Hiya to define and deliver shared components and services.
What we expect from you:
- Lead a software engineering team that is based in Seattle
- Provide mentorship, coaching, career development, and performance management as a people manager to a diverse group of engineers
- Thrive in a work environment of getting things done
- Collaborate as a team player, with excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Build and sustain highly distributed systems with stringent SLA requirements
- Scale our APIs to hundreds of thousands of queries per second
- Deliver software as a hands-on coder who leads by example
- Recognize, recruit, retain, and reward exceptional talent
Awesome if you have some experience in:
- Managing a software engineering team for 3 or more years
- Providing APIs as a service for third-party developers
- Programming in a functional language (extra points for Scala)
- Supporting multiple external partners and a software developer community
- Developing software for customers using iOS & Android devices
- Integrating with carrier networks, such as SIP & VoLTE implementations
- Building systems with network configuration, queues, stream processing, caching, etc.
- Delivering solutions with Kubernetes/Docker, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis and data analysis tools
What you should expect from us:
- Support in building your professional skills and developing your career
- Collaborative, motivated, friendly, and skilled colleagues
- Supportive, fast-growing company with a fantastic team
- Positive impact on the lives of millions of consumers
- Many office perks and great company benefits
We are building a team with a variety of perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate great candidates through a business lens and we strongly believe that diversity and unique perspectives make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.
This position is based in Seattle in our beautiful waterfront office, next to Pike Place Market.
We value and embrace diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age or disability status.