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\nDescription\n\nAre you known for your ability to execute with a high degree of expediency and accuracy, and an analytical person comfortable taking the lead? If so, Black Spectacles’ Head of Engineering role may be the perfect opportunity for you to grow in your career!\n\nAt Black Spectacles, we’re a purpose driven company, aimed squarely at educating and inspiring architects across the world so they can thrive in their careers.\n\nOur platform attracts architects around the world who want to push the limits of their industry. Our content — which includes podcasts, design tutorials and exam prep — helps architects keep pace with emerging technologies and software so they can do their best work.\n\nBlack Spectacles is Chicago-based with a fully remote staff. We are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and ranked #11 in Education on the INC. 5000 America’s Fastest Growing Company List in 2019. To keep that momentum going strong, we’re expanding our team of enthusiastic go-getters. We’re on the hunt for a Head of Engineering to manage and scale our technology team.\n\nYou will:\n\n\n* Develop Technology Leadership & Strategy (what technology should we use and why)\n\n* Understand and contribute to the development of Product Strategy\n\n* Recruit, manage and mentor/coach our technology team\n\n* Develop our Technology Culture: ie, standards and processes, and ensure their adherence\n\n* Develop goals for the team and work to ensure they achieve them\n\n* Manage workload for the dev team & ensure they hit their quality and deadline goals\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* You're willing and able to roll up your sleeves and code on day one.\n\n* You have a degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience.\n\n* You have over 6-8 years of direct hands on development experience, ideally full stack.\n\n* You have over 3 years of building and/or leading high performing engineering teams.\n\n* You have 5+ years of experience working in Agile environments.\n\n* You have experience coaching junior to mid-level engineers in their careers and experience.\n\n* You're not afraid to ask questions and are open to constructive criticism. You're an enthusiastic self-starter who takes ownership of your work.\n\n* You have experience with Javascript frameworks like Angular, React or Vue.js\n\n* You have experience working with API’s\n\n* Must be able to travel to Chicago for quarterly team meetings\n\n\n\n\nNice to haves:\n\n\n* Evaluation, configuration, and deployment of enterprise-grade, open-source software\n\n* Accountability for applications over their full life cycle\n\n* Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, etc)\n\n* Ideally you are language agnostic, but might have experience with PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* 'Work from wherever' policy\n\n* Unlimited Vacation\n\n* Blue Cross Blue Shield health, dental, vision, short-term / long-term disability and life insurance.\n\n* Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts\n\n* 401k with Employer match\n\n* Profit sharing program\n\n* Employee referral program\n\n* Frequent team events\n\n\n\n\nBlack Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, React, JavaScript, Education, Ruby, Travel and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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