Director of Engineering

Intelletec have partnered with a fun startup that’s revolutionizing the online travel advertising space. They have been on the Deloitte Fast 500 for five years running.

They apply technology to the travel advertising space, delivering $10B in bookings for the thousands of hotel, airline, and cruise companies that make up their customer base.

The team:

• The Platform Engineering team owns their traveler profile store, their data warehouse, and the broader technology stack.
• Their traveler profile system processes 100M pixels each day, and updates their targeting within 100 ms.
• Their data warehouse tracks 350M anonymized traveler profiles, enabling creation of more effective user targeting for ads
• Their tech stack scales globally on GCP and supports engineering and data science teams that build systems that reach users across display, SEM and Facebook.
• They are looking to grow this team with a Director of Engineering that has the presence, the energy and the positive attitude to drive the team and the platform forward.

The Expertise They're Looking For:

• Experience working as a technical lead, building production quality solutions with a focus on scale and reliability
• Hands on experience building and running production systems on Google Cloud or AWS
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (nice-to-have)
• Exposure to machine learning in a production setting
• At least 5-7 years of growing and managing engineering teams
• At least 10 years of leading high-performance, scalable software projects end-to-end, including managing complex projects in JIRA
• A MS or PhD in CS or CS/EE

The Skills You Bring:

• You have hands on experience with Python, Go, or Git
• You effectively communicate to teams across an organization, including leadership
• You excel at leading/mentoring teams and providing technical direction
• You have a record of shepherding large projects from ideation to completion
• You can independently solve technical challenges, analyzing options and innovating in the context of trade-offs
• You know how to balance business priority with engineering priority