Director Software Engineer
Description For Director Software Engineer
Wellhub (formerly Gympass) is a corporate wellness platform connecting employees to fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep partners. As a Director Software Engineer for the BASE Focus Area team in Brazil, you'll oversee engineering teams building critical services for Wellhub's business. You'll drive technical strategy, optimize processes, and develop team skills. Key responsibilities include guiding teams on large-scale projects, influencing roadmaps, fostering engineering excellence, collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring leaders, ensuring system scalability, and promoting a culture of wellbeing. The ideal candidate has experience managing managers, architecting large-scale applications, and excels in mentoring, communication, and problem-solving. This remote position offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, flexible work options, paid time off, parental leave, and career growth opportunities in a diverse, inclusive environment.
Responsibilities For Director Software Engineer
- Oversee, mentor, and guide one or multiple engineering teams and their leads to deliver on large-scale projects with high complexity, ensuring alignment with company goals and strategic priorities
- Partner with senior leadership to influence and drive engineering and product roadmaps, focusing on scalability, innovation, and business value
- Foster engineering excellence by advancing best practices, improving development processes, and ensuring the technical vision remains relevant and actionable
- Work closely with product, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure engineering outputs drive measurable business success
- Cultivate a high-performing culture by mentoring engineering leaders and teams, ensuring continuous professional development
- Ensure critical systems and services operate at high availability and scalability while remaining adaptable to new business models and client needs
- Work in a collaborative and agile environment that prioritizes people over process and is laser-focused on productivity
- Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues
Requirements For Director Software Engineer
- Experienced in managing managers (leads), as well as guiding multiple teams of software engineers across different locations
- Experienced in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications
- Experienced in designing and developing complex modern web applications
- Proficient in architecting large-scale, multi-tier applications, familiar with both monolithic and microservices architectures
- Excel in mentoring engineering leads and their teams, helping them grow their leadership and technical skills
- Excellent communication skills, able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experienced in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
- Experienced in working with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB
- Deep understanding of systems and ability to troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and work with teams to quickly resolve critical problems
- Ability to articulate ideas clearly when speaking to groups in English
Benefits For Director Software Engineer
- Health, dental, and life insurance
- Flexible work options (hybrid or full remote)
- Home office stipend and monthly flexible work allowance
- Flexible schedule
- Access to fitness and wellness resources (Wellhub Gold plan)
- Paid time off (vacations, extra days off, and birthday off)
- Paid parental leave
- Career growth opportunities
- Supportive and inclusive work culture
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