Director of Engineering

Boston, MA – Hybrid

We are excited to be expanding our creative and technical digital teams to support our ever-growing and ever-evolving website and online presence. We are looking for a Director of Engineering who wants to play an integral role in positioning our brands and maintaining the integrity, quality, and authenticity for which we’re known in the travel space.

The Director of Engineering will be responsible for the strategy and execution of full stack web development and operations at GCC. The ideal candidate will have experience leading multiple digital initiatives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with a proven track record of demonstrating exceptional results through best practices and working in a high-performing team.

We offer a unique opportunity to be part of an already strong global brand and a chance to make your mark on it leading the development of systems for both our internal and external customers.

With trips in nearly 100 countries, you’ll never run out of new places, people, and cultures to feed your wanderlust. From the Maasai warriors of Kenya to the tranquil temples of Japan, your work will consist of a staggeringly broad range of content, so it’s fair to say “bored” is not in our lexicon.

Grand Circle Corporation is the leader in international travel, adventure and discovery for Americans aged 50+. Headquartered in Boston, MA, we’re a $600M global enterprise with 30 regional offices and over 2,000 associates. Since our founding, over two million Americans have traveled with our award-winning travel brands: Grand Circle Travel, Overseas Adventure Travel and Grand Circle Cruise Lines. Want to go places? Grand Circle Corporation is the place for you.

What you’ll do:

As a Director of Engineering, you will:

• Directly manage and grow the leaders of multiple teams, and coach them to manage and grow their own direct reports.
• Demonstrate technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of Cloud Native solutions from technical design through development, automated testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance/operations.
• Create, review, and suggest improvements to requirements, solution designs and code reviews.
• Lead the teams to establish data driven metrics to understand if the systems in your organization are operating as expected.
• Help mentor, coach, and develop your team leaders responsible for implementing our CMS components and their supporting services using technologies such as React, Next.js, C#, Docker, Redis SQL Server, Web API, and others.
• Define development goals and career development plans for your teams
• Deploy to the cloud using Azure.
• Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.
• Balance calculated risks, tradeoffs, and consequences in prioritizing and optimizing for sustainable time to value and high-quality engineering.
• Provide ongoing support to internal customers and technical teams.
• Partner with our process leaders to maintain and continuously improve agile delivery and engineering practices.
• Focus on learning, applying, and extending best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on skills development.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in development of which two years has been as manager of managers.
• Experience in leading teams designing and creating code for a customer facing application and web services (SaaS or public web) in Next.js and C#.
• Ability to lead teams to architect scalable, performant, secure, and reusable solutions.
• Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring managers and developers; providing constructive feedback to help them improve.
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable and persuasive communication.
• Being a passionate and engaged collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence partners and peers at different levels.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Agile/Scrum experience
• Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Strong in Design Driven Design, SOLID principles, and Design Patterns.
• Should display a high degree of adaptability to become familiar with new technologies as needed and successfully manage the daily challenges of a technical environment.
• Confident in best practices, to help our teams increase the quality of the code.
• Proven success working in a fast-paced environment and within various sized organizations.

We bring together human insight and digital expertise to anticipate the needs of our customers. Our team members are innovative, technologically sophisticated, and motivated to achieve.