Head of Software Engineering at Clarus Commerce (Hartford, CT)

Position Overview

Clarus Commerce’s IT team is searching for a Director or Senior Director of Engineering. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead the engineering team’s day-to-day efforts and help shape Clarus’s long-term technology strategy. We’re looking for the rare individual who’s technical enough to know a singleton from a SSID (transpiler from a traceroute?), but who won’t disappear into the café to skunkworks the solution; a people person (you’ll work with both the business and tech teams), but not a people person; a two-way interpreter between the very disparate languages of techno-speak and business-jargon that branched early in the linguistics family tree. You will join a highly skilled IT organization utilizing the latest technologies to develop high-traffic websites, web services, mobile applications, business analytics and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Engineering teams in the architecture, support, development, maintenance and day-to-day operation of a multi-tenant digital commerce platform and supporting systems.


• Oversee the Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and overall development process flow.


• Work with the PMO team to help prioritize projects through the different engineering teams.


• Work closely with the different business owners to facilitate technology projects.


• Work cross functionally with the Infrastructure and Data teams to build, maintain and support the overall IT surface.


• Establish client-facing relationships with partner’s technology departments to assist the sales, implementation and operations processes.


• Work with the IT Security & Compliance group to maintain PCI, GDPR and CCPA compliance.


• Manage 18+ people in several team of highly talented, on- and off-shore developers, engineers, and architects.

Skill and Experience Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent.


• 8+ years of hands-on experience developing enterprise-scale websites with an object-oriented language, preferably C#.


• 5+ years managing direct technical reports.


• Experience with Distributed Micro-Service Architecture.


• Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, JavaScript based frameworks such as React.


• Experience building and consuming REST APIs.


• Experience with both relational, preferably MS SQL Server, and NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB.


• Experience with cloud-based computing, AWS preferred.


• Strong organizational and planning skills and process orientation.

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• The hustle of a lean team with the impact of a global business.


• Tremendous opportunity to solve some of the industry’s most exciting problems.


• Working with an extraordinary team of highly talented, smart, creative, fun and highly motivated people.


• Great workspace and competitive benefits and time off.

Team Orientation

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to both technical and non-technical groups.


• Ability to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways, recognize opportunities.


• To innovate and engage partners in a vision and strategy.


• Candidate should be independent, self-starter/self-motivated, and detail oriented.


• Able to promote, maintain, and enhance partnerships across the organization to achieve objectives and engage stakeholders.


• Share knowledge through “Tech Talk” presentations.


• Become a go-to technical resource for everything data related.

Communication Skills

• Ability to communicate thoughts/designs/ideas in a clear and concise manner.


• Able to present complex technical concepts to various types/levels of audiences.


• Excellent interpersonal communication with strong verbal/written English skills.

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