Director Of Engineering

Position Title: Director of Engineering

Location: Coralville, IA

Reports to: CEO

Status: Full-Time, Exempt, Salary

Work Location: On-Site / Hybrid

Overview

Leepfrog Technologies, Inc. provides its CourseLeaf software to more than 500 of the nation's most academically complex colleges and universities to manage their academic catalogs, curriculum, section scheduling, registration, and syllabi management.

This position is responsible for meeting the needs of our customers (internal and external) by building and maintaining a high performing engineering organization with a focus on outcomes. The Director of Engineering possesses in depth knowledge of Agile development methodologies, product and portfolio management and how to build high performing teams and scalable organizations.

What You'll Do

• Quickly and accurately assess ineffective teams, projects and organizations and return them to be effective.

• Build and manage high performing teams specializing in green and brown field development.

• Collaborate with peer organizations to increase overall company effectiveness.

• Build and coordinate team-based strategies for having a robust workforce that can easily adapt to changing business needs.

• As a member of the senior leadership team, formulate broad organizational initiatives and understand how to align your organization with and execute on those initiatives.

Skills You Must Have

• Ability to sell a broad strategic vision and successfully execute a detailed, tactical plan.

• Ability to effectively manage expectations and drive change across organizations.

• Build and maintain strategic, external partnerships through effective vendor management practices.

• In depth understanding of software engineering, quality assurance and release management.

• Ability to organize and manage many competing organizational priorities and achieve results.

• Ability to lead and inspire high expectations from our engineering teams.

• Ability to identify software issues and code irregularities.

• Must be able to lead by influence across organizations.

• Excellent oral and written communication.

Experience You Must Have

• A bachelor's degree in computer science/computer engineering/software engineering or a comparable amount of experience.

• An understanding of all the components that go into web application development from the layout/user interface to relational database structures.

• A familiarity with, or helping to establish, an Agile-like process is greatly beneficial

• Experience supervising software developers.

• A combination of strong leadership and interpersonal skills and an overall strong grasp of technology.