Director, Engineering – Data & Insights

🕒 May 21

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $175k - $328k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Rithum

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1997

🛍️ eCommerce

eCommerce • Marketing • AI

Rithum is a comprehensive e-commerce platform designed to empower brands, retailers, and suppliers to effectively launch and scale their businesses. Offering a variety of solutions including multichannel marketing, fulfillment management, and AI-driven supplier discovery, Rithum helps users optimize their online presence and streamline operations across a vast network of marketplaces. With a focus on flexibility and efficiency, Rithum aims to transform commerce by creating profitable and engaging shopping experiences.

📋 Description

• Oversee and manage multiple software engineering teams, ensuring they are working efficiently and are aligned with organizational objectives. • Provide mentorship and career development opportunities to engineering managers and senior engineers, helping them grow as leaders. • Lead efforts to recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent – to ensure we build high-performing, diverse teams that collaborate effectively. • Foster an environment where teams feel pride and ownership in their product and Rithum as a whole. Create and nurture a positive, inclusive, and innovative engineering culture that aligns with company values and promotes teamwork, diversity, and collaboration. • Encourage an attitude of proactive responsibility (finding problems before the client does), and a sense of ownership and urgency in resolving client-facing production problems quickly. Create a culture where people don't just point out problems but also become a part of the solution. • Develop and communicate the long-term technical vision and strategy that aligns with the company’s business goals. Work with C-level executives to translate business needs into actionable engineering plans. • Collaborate with product management to develop and prioritize the engineering roadmap, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to meet project deadlines and business priorities. • Plan and manage the engineering budget, ensuring efficient use of resources while balancing project needs and cost constraints. • Assure education, awareness, and adherence of your team to Rithum software development processes and standards, including Scrum agile development, automated testing, internationalization, usability, scalability, and service-oriented architecture initiatives. • Continuously assess and refine development processes to increase efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and improve collaboration between engineering and other teams. • Oversee the design and development of advanced software solutions that scale across hundreds of servers and meet aggressive fault tolerance standards. • Regularly communicate progress, technical challenges, and project outcomes to the executive team, providing insights that guide broader business strategy. • Ensure that all stakeholders, including product, operations, and business leaders, are aligned on technical initiatives and that expectations are managed effectively. • Interface with key clients, partners, and external stakeholders when necessary, providing technical insight and ensuring smooth delivery of software products.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years' experience in software development within SaaS industry • AWS data services experience • Strong SQL skills at scale with columnar/analytical query engines (Redshift, BigQuery, or equivalent) • Data warehouse design and ETL/ELT pipeline architecture • Experience with data lake patterns • Familiarity with streaming or near-real-time data patterns (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar) • Demonstrated ownership of data quality, governance, and schema management • Proven capabilities in building and retaining engaged, high-performing software development teams. • Experience managing the entire software development lifecycle of SaaS applications at scale. • Evidence of navigating a fast-paced, dynamic industry (like e-commerce) and delivering products that gain market share. • Experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, etc.) to accelerate and elevate your outcomes; including but not limited to communication drafting, data analysis, prompt engineering, and/or documentation • Exceptional written and spoken English

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1 • A 6% 401(k) match • Competitive time off package with 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day; at 3 years of service PTO increases to 22 days, and at 5 years it increases to 25 days • 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave • Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance • Pet insurance • Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans • Life insurance 2x salary • Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program • $65/month Remote work stipend for internet • Culture and team-building activities • Tuition assistance • Career development opportunities • Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year