Director Of Software Engineering

Redbrick and Leadpages are headquartered on the traditional Coast Salish territory, and we respectfully acknowledge the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ People of this region. With gratitude, we live, work, and care for this beautiful land.

At Leadpages, we are committed to creating a diverse environment where everyone can be their true authentic selves. We value all differences as they are essential for a thriving, happy, and productive workplace. Join us and help build a disruptive company where we are all proud to belong.

One thing that our team members say they value most is our fun and truly ‘people-first’ culture. Ours is a place where you’re given the autonomy to do your best work and provided with all the tools and support you need to do so. Here are some of the things our team loves most about working at Redbrick and Leadpages: 

• Highly competitive salary

• Attractive vacation, healthcare & benefits, including generous RRSP matching (Canada) and 401k (US)

• ‘People-first’ culture that prioritizes fun

• Autonomy and freedom to do your best work on your own terms (you won’t find any micromanagers here!)

• Flexibility to work remotely

• State-of-the-art and centrally located offices (Victoria & Minneapolis)

• Remote work fund to create a successful home working setup

• Opportunities to work on interesting products

• High-end hardware and equipment — in the office and at home

• Opportunities to learn and grow through professional development support, funding, and mentorship

• Internal mobility; opportunity to work with various products and teams across the Redbrick portfolio of companies

• Monthly fitness reimbursements to support a healthy and active lifestyle

• Modern tech stacks (React, TypeScript, Python, Kubernetes)

• Opportunities to contribute to open-source communities

Redbrick is the parent organization of a portfolio of disruptive digital companies. Headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, we’ve scaled from local start-up to global name in a few short years, conceptualizing new business ideas, acquiring established companies, and growing them to super-scaled profitability — all thanks to the people we hire.

4 portfolio companies and growing

1 amazing shared service team

200+ employees

One of our four portfolio companies, Leadpages is a platform that makes it easy for marketing profesionals to build no-code websites and landing pages. With built-in lead generation and digital marketing tools.

“Leadpages has provided me with the opportunities to pick up new skills and subjects, as well as finding a way for me to integrate previous skills into my current role to be able to contribute even more effectively. Each day is different, and technology is always changing so you are always kept on your toes! I have been lucky enough to work with supportive colleagues all across North America and to work with our users all over the world!”

– Jake, Senior Technical Support Specialist

We are changing the way work gets done, and building an exceptional team is our top priority. We cheerlead your goals and accomplishments and are invested in your future. We provide our team with the freedom and flexibility to work where they work best. Most of our team enjoys a blend of remote and in-office work. In-office time brings many perks, and we also place an emphasis on planning events and fun that all can enjoy. 

What does a day look like in my role?

We get it: You want to know what you’re signing up for before you apply, right? This is what you need to know: As a Director of Software Engineering, you’ll be responsible for leading a talented team of software engineers and software engineering managers who are responsible for designing and implementing SaaS products in the marketing technology industry. This role will balance people management, leadership, and technical guidance with a strategic mindset. You’ll work closely with the leadership team to align business strategies with technology strategies to deliver reliable, effective, and efficient solutions. To succeed in this role, you will have a passion for Agile software development, foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, and possess a strong background in the SaaS space. This role will report to the CEO and work alongside the rest of the leadership team to determine company priorities and direction. 

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Setting the team vision.You understand the direction of the company, align, and translate it into a team plan.

• Lead the engineering team and managers within a nimble product organization, utilizing Agile product development methodologies.

• Delivering business impact, focusing on time to value without impacting quality.

• You work with product, design, and customer experience partners to identify success metrics, and design to optimize delivery of product capabilities, and opportunities to learn and iterate.

• Identify new digital capabilities and emerging technologies and assess their impact, opportunities and threats, to shape the strategic direction of technology innovation efforts.

• Promote industry best practices for architecture, software development, deployment, and security.

• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

• Establish processes and metrics upholding a culture of high standards and accountability.

• Building and growing the team. You attract top talent to the shared vision of the team and can create and refine the team structure to scale. At the same time, you mentor, and coach individual contributors to grow both technically and managerially.

• Collaborating with and influencing other teams. You share and communicate plans and outcomes with external teams and understand and align team goals to collectively deliver results efficiently.

• Establishing a software delivery strategy for your team by leveraging agile and other best practices in the industry.

• Identifying areas of inefficiency and implementing new processes to unblock them.

• We're an agile, fast-growing company and this job description isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do!!

After 1 week

• You will be onboarded with the engineering and leadership teams and get a sense of how you fit within the company
• You will be introduced to your team in a group and in 1 on 1s
• You will be getting familiar with Leadpages’ products and processes
• You will become familiar with our development environment and repositories

After 1 month

• You will know all members of the Product and Engineering teams and understand who to ask for what
• You will be introduced to our product roadmap and understand where you can make the greatest impact
• You will find a rhythm with your direct reports and start to define plans for meeting their unique needs

After 6 months

• You will feel confident in your role and will be contributing on many fronts
• You have built a strong rapport with your team and are helping them learn and grow in their roles
• You will have offered valuable insights into engineering processes and are actively contributing to ongoing improvements
• You are actively communicating with your peers on the leadership team and cross-departmentally disseminating information appropriately

  

What we would like to see in you

Every Redbricker has three things in common: We’re curious, hungry, and good-humoured. We try our best to balance hard work with good, old-fashioned fun. As the Director of Software Engineering with Leadpages, there are extra specialties we’re on the lookout for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of software industry experience
• 6+ years leading an engineering team
• Proven experience delivering SaaS products
• Experience with large scale applications in a cloud platform, with preferred experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Familiarity with our current tech stack, Python, React.js
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate with executives
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading
• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Innovative and forward-thinking, decisive and action-oriented, flexible and proactive

What next?

If you’re picking up what we’re putting down, applying is easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Apply with your cover letter, resume and links to your GitHub or public repos if applicable.
2. Take this opportunity to tell us your story and why you’d be a good fit for our team.
3. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Linkedin, and Instagram for all that is happening and Redbrick and Leadpages!

Leadpages and Redbrick are committed to having a diverse environment where everyone can be their true authentic selves. We value all differences as they are essential for a thriving, happy, and productive workplace. Come join us and help build a disruptive company where we are all proud to belong.