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Director of Engineering
Selecting the Right Director of Engineerings
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Director of Engineering, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Director of Engineering.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Director of Engineering or a team of Director of Engineerings. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Director of Engineering Job Description Template
Director of Engineering
- The Director of Engineering develops an engineering operating strategy that is aligned with the property/brand’s business strategy.
- The Director of Engineering addresses potential areas of concern and proposing solutions to owners in a proactive manner.
- The Director of Engineering supervises construction to ensure timely completion of projects within budgetary guidelines.
- The Director of Engineering participates in the development of department's capital expenditure goals; manages projects as needed.
- Understands the impact of department's operation on the overall property financial goals; educates staff on details as appropriate.
- Manages the team and resource efficiently and ensures the team has clear priorities and adequate resources.
- Makes critical decisions that attribute to the success of the platform and ultimately the company.
- Drives the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with other teams
- Experience leading software product development with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects.
- Highly technical, hands on experience in delivering large scale, high performance, critical services.
- Excellent Computer Science fundamentals with regards to data structures, algorithms, time complexity, etc.
- Experience in low latency distributed services and big data analysis.
- Ability to be nimble, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience in communicating with other technical, product and project management teams.
- Ability to collaborate with business unit leadership as well as individual members of the team with strong empathy, and ability to creatively problem solve. .
We know that communication starts from speaking common languages, thus we put this aspect as a first factor in our selection process, we do not proceed with hiring for Director of Engineering before making sure that the candidate passes the language ability tests first.
The ability of self-explanation ( writing – speaking )
The ability of describing problems structurally and technically ( writing & speaking)
The ability of explaining ideas, situations and problems ( reading, writing & speaking)
This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Director of Engineering, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Director of Engineering you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Director of Engineering with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Director of Engineering can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Director of Engineering is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Director of Engineering needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Director of Engineering to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
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