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  • ID
    #46180164
  • Job type
    Permanent
  • Salary
    Up to $200,000
  • Source
    SAKARA LIFE
  • Date
    2022-09-26
  • Deadline
    2022-11-24
 
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Sakara Life is a mission driven, fast-growing wellness brand helping people nourish themselves by providing ready-to-eat nutrition programs, functional products and unique content to clients nationwide. We embody a positive and uplifting work environment where we encourage a growth mindset. We are seeking smart, passionate, ambitious and hardworking team players that share our passion for health and well-being. You will be responsible for "turning thoughts into things” and helping manifest the future of Sakara.

About this role: As our Director of Engineering, you will join our team to help execute our technical vision and lead our growing engineering team. You will be a counterpart to the product team helping to translate business needs into scalable software solutions. You will build and manage teams to create and maintain sophisticated systems supporting our Sakaralites.

You’ll love this role if: You’re a team leader with experience managing offshore and nearshore consultants both reporting to and partnering with the company. You can work with the product team to resource technical needs and help prioritize the digital product roadmap.

Your verticals at Sakara Life will include:
  • Front end development including our Shopify hosted store, integration of our latest and greatest marketing collaterals and customer facing portal
  • Back end development including multiple API connections, subscription management system and our homegrown internal admin and kitchen management system
  • Native iOS app written for our customers
  • Database management and maintaining a source of data truth that the org can rely on and access for all our analytical needs
  • Infrastructure and security to make sure we continue to hold all our customer data with the utmost care.
You will report to our operationally minded CFO, manage a growing internal engineering team along with external agencies, and work directly with key stakeholders across the organization.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Manage the execution of the digital product roadmap by engineering resources
  • Manage teams of offshore resources and handle the scaling and growth of those teams in response to changing business priorities
  • Manage technical infrastructure related to the ecommerce platform
  • Oversee the technical architecture of our ecosystem including internally owned and third party systems
  • Perform peer code reviews and be willing to jump into our code when necessary
  • Ensure all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards

Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of related experience in a comparable technology management and strategic role
  • Knowledge of full stack development including familiarity with Shopify as well as subscription and database management
  • Ability to get into the technical details and be hands-on, which includes QA
  • Ability to code in RAILS, REACT and SQL strongly preferred
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills including ability to present technology recommendations in a business-friendly and user-friendly language
  • Demonstrated track record of delivering results in a fast paced environment

This role will be based out of our HQ in NYC (3 days a week in office are required) Sakara Life is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons shall have the opportunity to be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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