Align Engineering with the Business
Work closely with the founder, product managers, customer success, and sales teams to ensure that the engineering team and their work are well-aligned with the rest of the company.
Keep the product roadmap and engineering priorities aligned.
Ensure that we have a healthy balance between maintaining the functionality and performance of the existing product while shipping new features.
Build and Lead the Team
Recruit, interview, and screen candidates for the engineering team.
We'll rely on you to grow the team with the right people.
Manage and grow the engineering team.
Set expectations, hold one-on-ones, and take responsibility for enabling a high-performing group of engineers to do their best work.
Set the engineering culture.
You'll work with the team to refine how we work, review code, test for quality, and ship changes.
We're looking for someone who can advocate for and support agile software practices that help the team work as efficiently and happily as possible.
Own Reliability and Customer Trust
Own uptime, performance, on-call, and incident response, with the monitoring and alerting to support it.
Handle the security and compliance requirements our larger hotel and restaurant group customers ask for.

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
You have scaled both a product and a team through a growth phase, and you know which problems show up at 4 engineers versus 15.
Strong technical background in modern web development, deep enough to make architecture calls and review any pull request on the team.
You are comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity.
You define the process rather than waiting for one.

Have shipped LLM-powered features to real users at scale and dealt with what happens when they get it wrong.
Have built B2B SaaS: CRMs, ATSs, or all-in-one operational tools.
Have shipped Ruby on Rails in production.

Competitive compensation including meaningful equity you’ll actually be able to use
Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you, cost-sharing for dependents

Structure: engineering team

Flexible PTO & 401(k)
Daily lunches when onsite
Unlimited book budget
Company laptop
Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family
Equal employment opportunity statement: prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Reasonable accommodations provided for applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

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