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Metal Toad

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2003

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cloud Computing • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Metal Toad is an AWS cloud services company that empowers organizations to innovate through cloud migration, cost optimization, application modernization, and artificial intelligence. They specialize in building systems that transform data into meaningful business insights to support data-driven decision making. Metal Toad is recognized as an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, helping clients across various industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, sports and gaming, and more. They provide services like cloud migration, generative AI, DevOps, and software as a service (SaaS), focusing on optimizing costs and enhancing operational efficiency. Metal Toad has a proven track record in architecting reliable and scalable cloud infrastructures tailored to specific business needs, ensuring faster deployments and improved system performance.

📋 Description

• Ensure Engineering Profitability: Manage resource allocation through accurate estimation, meet utilization targets, and ensure strict adherence to time logging standards. • Ensure High Engineering Performance: Guarantee project success through proactive unblocking, rapid communication, and meeting all security and quality standards. • Maintain Professional Standards: Ensure ongoing compliance with role certification standards and practice effective delegation. • Recruit & Retain Great Talent: Ensure 90%+ A-player acquisition and maintain high retention of engineering talent. • Estimation & Allocation: Create accurate estimates for every ticket to enable proper resource allocation. • Utilization & Logging: Ensure the team (including self) meets utilization targets and adheres to time logging standards. • Unblocking & Escalation: Reduce ticket overage by unblocking engineering team members and leveling technical issues up to the Head of Engineering. • Reporting: Report ticket estimate overages to the Project Manager and Head of Engineering ASAP to ensure project success. • Onboarding & Certification: Maintain updated milestones and dates in the Certification Planning spreadsheet for 100% of team members. • Quality Control: Adhere to quality and security standards to ensure zero requirements defects on projects. • Timeline Management: Support work-in-progress cycle times of < 2 days, code reviews within 4 business hours, and QA within 2 days. • Team Leadership: Delegate tasks using the 5 Levels of Leadership (p. 215) and implement Manager Tools best practices for retention. • Hiring: Participate in the hiring process using the WHO method to acquire A-player talent.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Tech Leader • Proven ability to lead a team of software engineers • Demonstrated experience in technical estimation and resource allocation • Expertise in maintaining engineering quality and security standards • Proven ability to create quality software - Zero major defects and/or bugs released • Familiarity with the WHO method for hiring and talent acquisition • Knowledge of Manager Tools best practices for team retention • Ability to implement delegation according to the 5 Levels of Leadership • Commitment to ongoing role certification and professional development • Ability to maintain rapid communication and meet strict cycle-time targets • Advanced to fluent English communication skills are essential for this role.

🏖️ Benefits

• 24/7 support • Remote work • Professional development opportunities