Director of Engineering - SAAS and MEAN stack hands on Required

Company Description
We are looking for an ambitious hands-on lead engineer to drive our technology roadmap forward, contribute significantly to the growth and evolution of our platform and build a talented team beneath them. As an early team member, you will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of our platform:

Job Description
At MakerSights you will
Help build a fast-growing, profitable business that delivers significant long-term value to its employees, brands and investors
Have a key leadership position, with significant ownership over the direction of our technology, roadmap and recruiting process
Build great software. The features and data-sets you (and engineering team) ideate and develop will help brands radically improve their product development efficiency
Contribute to building a rich company culture, where talented people and teams are stretched to grow professionally and personally
Key responsibilities
Building mobile-first, intuitive interfaces that drive strong user engagement
Furthering our merchant dashboard, a data synthesis and visualization application providing concrete answers to the most critical brand investment questions
Enhancing our data architecture and APIs, providing scalability as we add new data inputs to strengthen our platform’s network effect
Leading the recruitment, hiring and management of a best-in-class engineering team
Helping craft our company strategy, ensuring the tech roadmap delivers upon all strategic goals
Interfacing with clients to ensure we deliver a product that drives value and meets their needs

Qualifications
Requirements
Motivated by ownership and responsibility
Excited to build an enduring company
Posses great communication skills, keen to work directly with clients and internal cross-teams
Have 6+ years professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years back-end
Experienced scoping and building web applications delivering measurable impact to end users
Have experience developing in open-source frameworks; background in MEAN stack a plus
Understand RESTful web services and API architecture
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.