Senior Engineering Director for Relationship Intelligence Platform

5 days ago

Old Toronto, Canada Affinity Full time

Ambitious professionals with a passion for building scalable web applications and leading high-performing engineering teams are invited to join Affinity, a pioneer in relationship intelligence. Our platform uses trillions of interactions between dealmakers to deliver automated insights driving over 450,000 deals every month.

Job Summary

We seek an experienced Senior Engineering Director to lead the development of our innovative CRM product and platform. As a key member of our technical leadership team, you will drive strategic decisions aligned with business context, product, architecture, design philosophies, and strategies. Your vision will shape the team's composition, specifying hiring needs, and sourcing and onboarding engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams.

About the Role
  • Shape Product Roadmap: Collaborate with product and design leaders to establish a compelling future vision for our product, crafting a strategic roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering.
  • Lead Engineering Execution: Lead engineering execution, ensuring quality software and a delightful user experience through continuous, iterative development practices, while driving initiatives to refine our overall development approach and delivery processes.
  • Grow and Scale the Team: Shape the team's composition, specify hiring needs, and source and onboard engineers whose diverse technical abilities and soft skills contribute to well-rounded, cohesive teams.
  • Craft Technical Strategy: Develop a technical strategy and roadmap aligned with Affinity's business and product needs, focusing on delivering high-quality, great usability, fast performance across applications and APIs.
  • Manage Technical Debt: Lead company-wide prioritization of improvements to code quality, systems, and the engineering processes to support these.

You will be responsible for developing and managing department KPIs to ensure department goals are met. We're looking for someone who can balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy.

About You

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • 13+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations.
  • 8+ years in an engineering leadership role, at least at one point overseeing organizations of 60 or more, with experience in managing multiple teams through managers and team leads (growing managers of managers, ideally directors).
  • Experience developing, coaching, and managing engineering leaders, such as Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, and Staff Engineers.
  • Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while also challenging them when necessary.
  • Experience recruiting and closing engineering candidates.
  • PASSION FOR DESIGNING, EVOLVING, AND OPTIMIZING THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, IDEALLY LEVERAGING PRACTICES SUCH AS KANBAN TO HELP DEVELOPERS MAINTAIN A SMOOTH WORKFLOW.
  • BALANCE THOUGHTFULLY BETWEEN SHORT-TERM BUSINESS PRIORITIES AND LONG-TERM INVESTMENT AND STRATEGY.
  • Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platform's overall performance and reliability.
  • Excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams.
  • Experience working with Ruby, React, or PostgreSQL.
  • Experience working with CRM-type applications that deal with problems like entity resolution and designing data models to store lots of attributes across many entities.
  • Experience building data-intensive applications.

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end.

About Affinity

Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and close more deals. With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms, we're committed to delivering relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere.

Benefits
  • Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days.
  • We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program – after all, one of our core values is that we're #obsessedwithlearning.
  • We support our employee's overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as virtual team building and socials.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $245,000 to $300,000 CAD.

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