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Software Engineering Tech Lead

Created on 20-02-2019
Location Santa Monica

Description

About Houzz
Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of more than 40 million unique monthly users who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next home project, connect with over 2.3 million home design and remodeling professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.
About This Role
Houzz’s ever-growing marketplace, with over 10M products sold by over 20K sellers, is powered by a small team of amazing engineers and product people. The team is looking for an engineer who wants to work with modern tools like React, Node/Express, ES6, Less, Webpack, Babel, GraphQL, & Java, maintain our site performance and work in a variety of browsers and viewports.
As a software engineer you will take business concepts and ideas and transform them to live products and workflows that are used by millions of homeowners and sellers worldwide. We are looking for engineers who want to work on challenging problems of scale. We are looking for someone who is self-directed, independent, and has experience owning complete products and features.
What You'll Do
  • Manage the software development of 1-2 teams working on high-impact projects
  • Design and review code, troubleshoot and mentor team members on technical matters in order to keep up with our high technical standards
  • Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time
  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
  • Guide the discussions and technical decisions about the best possible solutions
  • Responsibility for building and leading professional hiring and onboarding processes
  • Work closely with product managers and peers to explore options, define product and technical strategy, and build roadmaps for your team
  • At a Minimum, We'd Like You to Have
  • 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience
  • Rigor in automated testing, code quality, and engineering best practices
  • Good understanding of web application development and SOA models
  • Experience in developing distributed systems
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, teamwork, and problem-solving skills
  • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Ideally, You'll Also Have
  • 2+ years of hands-on technical management experience
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Data Science and Design
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Benefit

    TGIF lunches

    TGIF lunches

    Cake and birthday celebrations every Fridays!

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    Possibility to earn high commissions

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    Access to our flexible benefits program including childcare vouchers, Cycle to Work (bicycle parking and showers available onsite), dental insurance, health screenings and an annual season ticket subsidy and loan program.

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    Gym membership discounts (London)

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