Director of Technology - Web Platform

About A Place for Mom

We’re the leading online platform connecting families searching for senior care with a team of experienced local advisors providing insight-driven, personalized solutions. As the nation’s most trusted senior advisory service, we are a mission-based organization that enables caregivers to make the best senior living decisions for their loved ones. With hundreds of senior living experts nationwide, A Place for Mom helps hundreds of thousands of families each year simplify the process of finding the right senior care solution across home care, independent living, memory care, assisted living, and more.  Our services are offered at no cost to families as we’re paid by the 14K+ communities and 3K+ providers in our network.

Recently awarded one of the 2022 Best Places to work in NY and Best HR teams by comparably, the leading workplace culture and brand reputation platform, A Place for Mom is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

Employees who thrive at A Place for Mom live our values every day:

• Focus on excellence
• Act with integrity and assume positive intent
• Drive outcomes every day with passion and a sense of mission
• Make the lives of our families and customers better, easier and more successful
• Realize the full potential in each team member -- work as a single supportive team

We are looking for a talented Director of Technology – Web Platform who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our responsive websites. This role entails leading multiple teams comprising frontend and backend developers, along with QA engineers.

This position reports to the VP of Engineering. You will leverage your expertise in technology to meticulously select the latest technologies, architectural frameworks, and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership and architectural direction to a dedicated team of engineers tasked with developing web applications that connects with our families.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, outcome-oriented, technology-focused people leader with extensive experience managing teams in designing, building, and supporting modern web services. Additionally, they demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.

What you will do:

• Lead and mentor the Web Platform teams, providing strategic direction, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, establishing the frameworks for managing, executing work, and directing the activities of the teams through your managers.
• Experiment with new technologies and conduct proof of concept which then is presented to tech peers.
• Partner with other directors and tech leads across multiple orgs to gather system requirements, gut check new feature proposals, and drive large system improvements.
• Provide the teams with the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their personal and professional success.
• Responsible for Web Platform’s technical strategy and roadmap - creating success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering and Product Managers and aligning work to achieving those metrics.
• Champion whole team quality approach guiding team management on accountability and growth opportunities on roadmap deliverables. ● Mentor the professional development of each manager and engineer by helping them build and execute personal development plans that map to our organization goals. Aggressively recruit and hire talented engineers.
• Work closely with the Product organization to ensure that the company product objectives are met on time while simultaneously balancing necessary engineering requirements and influencing the overall technical direction and user experience of our website.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• 5+ years of experience managing high performance web teams, preferably developers, QA engineers, and UX designers in a combined org.
• Experience leading teams developing modern, high traffic websites and services using React, Next.js and JavaScript / Typescript.
• Strong understanding of SEO, CWV, and strategies for driving organic traffic growth.
• Experience practicing contemporary software development methodologies: Agile, Scrum, XP, etc. with a clear focus on app security, performance & maintainability.
• Strong organizational and communication skills with experience of developing & instilling a culture of broad product ownership.
• Strong understanding of API architecture including REST and GraphQL.
• Strong understanding of AWS Services, Docker Containers, and CI/CD
• Expertise with Advertising and Analytics integrations.
• Experience with database technologies like: MySQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Elasticsearch
• Education – Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. · Experience with Google Core Web Vitals
• Experience with organic SEO concepts and paid marketing campaigns (SEM)

Compensation

• Base Salary: $180,000 to $210,000 + 30% Bonus
• Benefits:
  • 401(k) plus match
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Time Off

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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