System1 is looking for a Director of Engineering to be the Lead of our Platform Monetizationteam. You will design, build, operate, debug, optimize, and deploy highly-distributed andlow-latency web-based systems with a growing team of talented engineers. In this role, you willmanipulate and leverage datasets to extract valuable insights coming from users' shoppingintent. The ideal person will not only be an expert software developer with both back end andsome full stack knowledge, but also a collaborative team player with infectious energy and adesire to communicate ideas respectfully to colleagues. 

The Role You Will Have 

• This is a unique opportunity to grow a team and develop from the ground-up a newdistributed platform.
• This platform focuses on online advertising products.
• The platform key-technology will enable advertising recommendations and user-intentdetection.
• Build, operate, and optimize large web-based systems and platforms that interfacedirectly with Data Science real-time scoring models and support various optimizationalgorithms that are multi-objective in nature.
• Design and implement algorithms to efficiently process, analyze, and serve massivedatasets.
• Key platform features entail 1. real-time/near-real-time processing of users'engagement data, 2. management of product feeds containing millions of items, 3.integration with ML models that power the sites.
• Serve as a key individual contributor within the Bellevue engineering group and providetechnical leadership to the team you will directly contribute to shape and grow. 
• Take projects through the full engineering lifecycle: designing, ticketing, building,testing, deploying, and debugging tools and products.
• Help grow a team and work with a tight knit group of engineers and data stakeholders.

What You Will Bring 

8+ years of combined experience in a backend or full stack development.? Well versed with Python and python libraries/frameworks is required

Proven leadership skills and ability to mentor and lead a driven team of talentedengineers.

Passion for leveraging technology to solve problems and maximize productivity andthrive in collaborative teams.

Prior experience leading projects with at least 6-8 engineers.

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent, Master's degree a plus

Should be comfortable writing HTML/CSS and proficient in Javascript

Experience