
Axios: Director of Engineering
Job Description
Headquarters: Axios
Quick Take: Axios is a growth-stage startup dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We’re hiring a Director of Engineering!
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to build a vision for technology at Axios
- Partner with Engineering Managers to set standards and define best practices
- Hire, retain, support, and grow the engineering talent Axios needs to succeed
- Coach and mentor staff to help them grow in their abilities as they work with cross-functional product-oriented team members
- Ensure all engineers in your domain are delivering high-quality technical output
- Oversee architectural process and help grow architectural skills across engineering
- Partner with engineers to plan, problem solve, and optimize for the best technical solutions
- Demonstrate excellent judgment in professional and technical decision making
- Weigh risk, maintainability, cost-impact, dev-impact, and business impact, to result in proposing the best possible solution
- Promote test-driven-development and prioritize strategies to reduce risk
- Be an authority on end-to-end systems architecture and modern pipeline design
- Hold yourself and your team accountable to delivering high-quality, pragmatic results that meet the needs of the business in the timelines provided
- Proven track record with extensive experience as a software engineer, architect, and manager with deep, current technical experience
- Experience leading and managing multiple teams of developers in a fast-growth environment
- Deep, current technical capacity with software development, front-end architecture, data design and implementation, and enterprise-grade software delivery
- Proven track record of creating pragmatic, maintainable systems, using industry-recognized best practices
- Experience shipping, maintaining, scaling, and evolving highly-utilized production products
- Deep experience applying agile practices to streamline team delivery and output
- Significant, current knowledge of Python, Node related frameworks, and technologies
- Expertise in frontend technologies, specifically React and React Native
- Experience with Go or Native Mobile development, is a plus
- Extensive experience evaluating, implementing, and supporting third-party solutions for ad-tech, BI tooling, and general analytics a huge plus
- A passion for the Axios mission and media
Don’t forget:
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- 401K
- Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
- Company equity
- Commuter and cell phone benefit
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
- Annual learning and development stipend
Additional pandemic-related benefits:
- One mental health day per month
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Weekly company-sponsored exercise and meditation classes
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/axios-director-of-engineering
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