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Director of Software Development
at Mint in Mountain View, CA
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Jul 23, 2008
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Overview
Our team works very well together, so this role will be more about coordination and eliminating roadblocks than managing personalities and motivation. As the leader of the team at the heart of a company-wide effort involving Product Management, QA, and Operations, YOU will have the key responsibility to keep the releases on schedule.
The right candidate will
* Mix a craftsman's pride in workmanship with pragmatism and ability to "ship it!"
* Be capable of having thoughtful insights about the right development methodology and level of processes, then make a choice and lead the way
The right candidate will
* Mix a craftsman's pride in workmanship with pragmatism and ability to "ship it!"
* Be capable of having thoughtful insights about the right development methodology and level of processes, then make a choice and lead the way
Responsibilities
Own the day–to–day management of the development process.
With Product Management, ensure specs are clear, complete, and ready to implement
Scope new features and help make the right tradeoffs
Work breakdown & team scheduling: planning who's doing what, & when
Make time for continuous refactoring and improving existing code and unit tests, to keep the codebase clean, maintainable and fun to work on
With QA, coordinate a build's entry into testing, giving them control and visibility to achieve realistic testing
Daily bug triage and assignment
Own the recruiting process that will continue to attract and keep the best engineering talent
Be approximately 25% hands-on initially, to develop your code ownership and learn the system
Experience
5+ years experience directly managing a development team of four or more people
4+ years experience building a hosted Internet application (ideally consumer-facing)
Management experience in more than one company. Preferably you have seen more than one dev methodology in practice.
4+ years hands-on experience as a Java software developer (server-side)
Prior startup experience strongly preferred
Skills
Technologies we use (the more of these you know, the better):
Java, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, MySQL, Linux
XMLC, Spring MVC, JavaScript, YUI, Flex
IntelliJ IDEA, SVN, JIRA, Ant, TeamCity
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
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