Director of Engineering, FinTech
About Us
TripActions is the all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management solution, providing more than 8,000 customers around the globe with unprecedented visibility and control over spend. Trusted by finance teams and travelers alike, TripActions leverages real-time data to help companies keep traveling employees safe, reduce spend, and drive productivity.
TripActions' investors include such visionaries as Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, Zeev Ventures, and entrepreneurs Lee Fixel, Adam Bain, and Elad Gil. In Oct 2022, TripActions announced its Series G upround at a post-money valuation of $9.2B to help accelerate future growth plans. In February 2022, the TripActions Group announced its acquisition of Berlin-based travel management company, Comtravo, which was closely followed by the addition of leading Scandinavian travel agency Resia AB, the group's third acquisition in nine months following the acquisition of Reed & Mackay in May of 2021.
At TripActions, we're never satisfied with the status quo, and we know breakthrough ideas come from diverse perspectives. We are committed to cultivating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve while fostering leadership and innovation. All voices are valued here and you'll have the resources, tools, and training you'll need to do the best work of your life.
TripActions Liquid is looking for a Director, Backend Software Engineering to help lead a product-focused backend engineering team. This team develops and supports the features that our end users will rely on every day and delivers delightful, consumer-like experiences in the workplace.
This position will be responsible for growing a Backend Engineering team (e.g. recruiting, career development, mentoring), as well as project execution (e.g. high quality feature releases and improvements). This leader will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our web applications to make our product more reliable and scalable as we continue to grow.
What You'll Do:
- Lead our growing backend Money Movement and Tooling team
- Oversee product development from concept to production
- Provide technical direction, guidance, and hands-on management
- Communicate cross functionally and drive engineering efforts
- Plan for operational efficiency to scale products, programs and practices as we grow and expand
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership/accountability
What We're Looking For:
- Experience growing and scaling software teams
- 10+ years of Software Development Experience
- 5+ years of experience leading/managing cross-functional development teams and 3+ years of managing managers
- Ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- Experience in building and maturing engineering teams and infrastructure in a startup environment
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership/accountability
- Experience in building teams, hiring, coaching, and motivating staff through learning and development
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience