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eccentric It is the tool of thinking and cooperation distributed work. Our program helps thousands of customers – from individuals to Fortune 500 – helps work together more effectively.

Strange, expressive, fast and cheerful. We believe that programs should provoke joy, not awe.

We are now looking for experience Director of Higher Engineering To help move that vision forward!

As the Director of Higher Engineering, you will manage a group of 6-8 engineers. They will ensure their cooperation effectively, that the group has the right skills and capabilities, and that every person in the group is excited to contribute.

You will also participate with Tech threads for our product teams. Although you will be responsible for people on the team, technology leadership will be responsible for the technical trend and the delivery of the team.

Daily work

In the eccentric, you can expect the daily:

• Ensure that your team has the right people to achieve its goals. You will do this through employment, training and performance management.
• Train your team members to support them and help them to grow professionally.
• Work with your teammates to ensure that they get working on difficult problems, enthusiasm to contribute, and they are recognized for their contributions.
• Building confidence -based relationships with your teams through 1: 1s to facilitate effective comments and information flow.
• Driving different rituals and facilitating talks to ensure your teams’ cooperation effectively.

Indications that this could be a good role for you:

• It has succeeded in managing the engineers’ teams in the past (at least 3 years of experience).
• You have a great previous experience as a software engineer.
• You feel that our philosophy is echo with you and you can see it as it directs your decisions while you are in the eccentric.
• You are able to communicate in English clearly and in writing.
• You are able to attract great people to work with them.
• You can motivate and inspire.
• You have the courage and the ability to honestly and sympathize with difficult conversations.
• You can manage your own time and set your business priorities.
• You always look forward to improving your methods by cooperating with your manager and peers.

requirements

• We are looking for someone to direct the difference from (east and medium zones)
  • 🇺🇸 The United States (Eastern and Central Time Zone)
  • 🇨🇦 Canada (Eastern and Central Time Zone)
• biography
• Studied and comprehensive responses to all application questions.

benefits

• 100 % remotelyWe currently have teammates in New Zealand, North America and Europe, and we have covered if you prefer to work from work space
• salary: Annual salary at $ 184,631
• justice: ~ 0.3 %
• vacation: 6 weeks of paid vacation every year
• Parents’ leave: 4 months are paid by the company
• equipment: We offer Apple devices and all other technology that you need to work successfully
• PeakWe are trying to collect everyone at least twice a year
• pension*: 401K with 6 % matching a company
• health insurance*: Pay by the company for you and you

* Availability may depend on your site and current administrative capabilities there.

How do we work

We use an air -conditioned version of Basecamp shape The approach, which means for us:

• We work in 5 weeks of concentrated work and one week of cold.
• We are working in product teams, where each team has features and implementing specific products fields
• Each team has the creation of “Idea degrees” for the upcoming courses and the transfer of its products.
• Each working cycle for 5 weeks or more of the “bets” that are shipped for each team, each of which has specific and well specific requirements.
• During Cool Download, each of us chooses what we want to work on, whether it is, simple features, technical debts, exploring new concepts, and more.

As the first engineering director of Whimsical, it will contribute by ensuring the welfare of the engineering team and ensuring that any blockers are efficiently removed and that problems are solved. Being a small company means that on rare occasions you may have to pay the sleeves and help in some code.

In addition to formation, we also support customers and support customers to better understand our users and needs, regardless of our role within the company.

Our basic laying of non -simultaneous operation. We use the actual time in the actual time very carefully, and only as it makes sense. We use eccentric, email, stagnation and zooming for our daily communication.

But we also believe in spending a good time together, which is why we are trying to collect everyone from all over the world at least twice a year for what we call “strange peaks”. In the summits, we focus on getting to know each other better and building bonds that help us to communicate better when we are separate.

About eccentric

Whimsical was founded in 2017 by Kaspars Dancis and Steve Schoefel to help people think and cooperate in the first digital work environment.

We are a remote work and supporters of work because it weakens the chances of people everywhere.

Our operating philosophy depends on a set of basic principles, such as:

• Sustainability: We do not believe in growth at any cost. Growth is an essential part of a healthy presence, but we want to be balanced with sustainability and limit them from moral behavior. We strive to work quietly, for 40 hours at work. Strange phases are also committed to doing our role towards A sustainable future for the planet.
• Crafts: We carefully take care of our work. We are specialists and learners who are enthusiastic and continuous in our endeavor to do quality. We are patient and committed because building great things takes time.
• Focus in the long run: We build eccentric in the long run, not a quick exit. We avoid shortcuts and look at every major decision from a 10+ years perspective.
• Partnership mentality: We have built the company about the idea that everyone who joins us must feel that they are partners at work. The time is precious and we want to be strange to be the place where people are invested in their time instead of selling it. Our stock offers are 100 % transparent and above the market. We also pay everyone at the same salary level, regardless of where they live.

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