Head of Engineering

Recast is looking for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial Head of Engineering to help us accelerate our engineering and product development practice.

What you'll do in your first 6 months:

• Improve upon our culture of shipping and accountability on the engineering team
• Continue to drive adoption of AI tools for development and integration of AI-first workflows into the product
• Hire a lot. We need to rapidly grow our software engineering team while still keeping the quality bar high and maintaining a culture of product and engineering excellence.
• Own our tech security practice and SOC 2 certification and compliance program

Things that should excite you that might scare off other folks:

• Working across a range of technologies – from Rails to AWS & k8s infrastructure, to running #rlang in production
• Working with a fully-remote and globally distributed engineering team across a variety of timezones
• Working with a large number of direct reports – we’re a flat organization and we plan to keep it that way

Familiarity with the following would be nice to have, but aren’t required:

• Ruby on rails
• AWS and/or cloud-first architectures
• Kubernetes and distributed compute generally
• Building products with data science / machine learning / algorithmic components

What we offer you:

• Work wherever you’re happiest. We're fully remote
• Competitive remote salary along with early-stage equity
• Highly skilled coworkers you can learn from and who are eager to learn from you
• An async-first culture with a focus on documentation over standing meetings
• Autonomy and support to do your best work in your own time
• Your local holidays plus unmetered PTO (minimum 2 weeks mandatory PTO!)
  
  

As our Head of Engineering you’ll be leading our full engineering organization made up of three subteams: app developers, R developers, and infrastructure / platform engineers. The Recast product and delivery model is very complex so shipping features often requires fairly intense inter-team collaboration to provision compute, develop algorithms, and then present something human-usable to our end customers. 

Note: Recast is committed to building a diverse team so if you are from an under-represented background in tech (e.g., women, BIPOC, etc.) please apply even if you don’t necessarily check all of the boxes here.

While Recast is officially based in the US, we're a fully remote team (one founder lives in Brooklyn, the other in Mexico City and team members in 6+ countries around the world). For this role, we're looking for someone comfortable working Eastern Time hours.

If this sounds interesting to you, we'd love to learn more about you! If you have examples of contributions to publicly available and widely used R packages, we highly value that so please make sure to include it in your application!

Please note salary ranges are estimated for US-based employees. Candidates from other geographies may have the salary range adjusted based on their local markets.