Wireless Generationcreates innovative tools, systems, and services that help educatorsteach smarter. With its mobile assessment software, the companyinvented a better way to give classroom assessments and make data-basedinstructional decisions. Now Wireless Generation has broken new groundwith technology that analyzes student data and customizes curriculum toindividual learning needs. Wireless Generation also builds large-scaledata systems, such as New York City’s ARIS, that centralize studentdata and give educators and parents unprecedented visibility intolearning. A Web 2.0 collaboration and knowledge network for educatorspropagates proven approaches across schools. Wireless Generationcurrently serves more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students.More information is available at www.WirelessGeneration.com
Job Description:
We are looking for a seasoned Director-level manager with strongtechnical expertise and excellent leadership ability to manage a teamof software engineers and architects working on multiple projectswithin our product development department. The ideal candidate willlead the identification of new technologies and practices in theindustry and bring them to bear against the many challenges of afast-growing, hi-tech company building products ranging from rich-mediahandheld applications to Web 2.0 tools and large-scale data systems.
If you are interested in cutting-edge technologies, if you consideryourself a star technologist, and if your management abilities haveworked wonders in the past, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities of Director of Engineering:
- Building and retaining productive teams through strong recruitment, mentoring and career management
- Leading a department of software developers and architects, establishing development practices and standards
- Collaborating with a team of peers to sustain effectiveness within a growing mid-sized environment
- Engaging and challenging requirements while designingsolutions based on deep technical knowledge of web, client and databasearchitectures
- Setting high level design objectives; reviewing and critiquing software designs proposed by architects
Requirements of Director of Engineering:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Extremely strong Computer Science fundamentals and analytical abilities
- Several years of experience leading a department of 10+ persons, managing practices, careers and recruitment
- 5+ years of previous experience as a Software or Data Systems Architect
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, delivering and supporting large scale applications and/or data systems
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills, as well as significant real-world experience with commercial RDMBSs
- Expertise in several programming languages such as Java, C++ or C# as well as OO design
- Ability to quickly establish credibility with skilled developers and architects
- Taste for simplicity and elegance in technical design
Bonus Points:
- Experience with agile software development values and practices, especially Scrum
- Experience with Data Analytics, ETL best practices and tools for enterprise data integration
- Taste for scripting languages such as Python or Ruby
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Compensation: - PerYear
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