Who You’ll be Joining:

The Common Platform group is a collection of teams responsible for the creation of unified experiences within ecobee and Generac’s ecosystem of connected devices. This platform is foundational to enabling the Single Pane of Glass experience that allow our devices to seamlessly integrate with one another and intuitively meet the needs of our customers.

As a Senior Director of Engineering you’ll be a lead of leads, responsible for multiple Senior Engineering Managers and their teams who are responsible for the continuous development and operation of a multi-tier shared service platform used across all lines of ecobee’s business.

You’ll report into ecobee’s VP of Engineering and can expect a highly collaborative environment where you’ll engage with leaders from Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, other Engineering teams and more!

How You’ll Make an Impact:

As a Senior Director of Engineering for ecobee’s Cloud and Mobile Platform, you’ll lead the Common Platform group where you’ll own the design, development and maintenance of innovative software solutions that set ecobee apart as an industry leader in the IoT and Smart Home spaces.

You’ll shepherd the growth of our engineering culture to ensure we both build and maintain a work environment we can be proud of and that all ecopeeps thrive in. You’ll foster an environment of operational excellence and inspire others to embrace the growth-mindset needed to deliver high-quality software quickly.

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• You like to continuously challenge yourself and the status quo by finding new and better ways to deliver best-in-class software. Working systems design, delivery process and operational excellence are in your comfort zone.
• You drive great execution of the teams and projects you are responsible for.
• You’re a master of and advocate for the craft of software development and its best practices including automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, design patterns, etc.
• You establish high standards for APIs and software services, ensuring that our systems, infrastructure, tools, process, and documentation deliver an enjoyable and frictionless developer experience.
• You believe in and rely on metrics to continuously assess and improve software quality, operational health, and fiscal efficiency.
• You architect repeatable, scalable process, ceremonies, and methodologies that enable teams to autonomously set appropriate expectations, manage risks, allocate people, and remove blockers.
• You ensure your teams continuously improve by setting clear direction, meaningful KPIs, timely retrospectives, and by identifying areas for improvement. You help set inspirational stretch goals that help your teams unlock their best work.
• You foster a positive, supportive, and inclusive work environment.
• You have insights into how to coach and mentor everyone who rolls up to you whether they be a junior engineer, staff engineer, or senior manager.
• You value and understand the importance of empathy and curiosity in the engineers you hire, and the impact those qualities have on the team they join.
• You own your team’s delivery and manage your stakeholders by providing accurate estimates and timelines while mitigating risk.
• You build strong partnerships with other leaders in Product, UX and Engineering in order to strategically shape your company’s overall vision on both the product and technical level.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, which you utilize to bring everyone along on a journey together with a clear, shared understanding.

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check.

What Technologies We Use:

• 80% Go-Lang, 10% Java, 10% Python
• GraphQL
• GitHub Actions (CI/CD), CircleCI
• Edge / service
• Heterogeneous cloud platforms: GCP & AWS - Proxies - envoy, HAProxy
• Distributed tracing for heterogeneous systems (Jager, honeycomb, etc...)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS
• CloudSQL, PubSub, Cloud Run, DataStore, BigQuery, Dataflow, etc.
• Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker

What happens after you apply?

Application Review. It will happen. By an actual person in Talent Acquisition. We get upwards of 100+ applications for some roles, it can take a few days, but every applicant can expect a note regarding their application status.

Interview Process (3 stages):

• Round 1: A 45-minute phone call with a member of Talent Acquisition
• Round 2 is broken into two separate interviews;
  • Part 1: A 60-minute interview with one of ecobee's Senior Engineering Leaders held over Microsoft Teams.
  • Part 2: A 60-minute interview with a VP of Engineering from our parent company Generac held over Microsoft Teams.
• Round 3 is broken into two separate interviews as well;
  • Part 1: A 60-minute interview with ecobee's VP of Product Management held over Microsoft Teams.
  • Part 2: A 60-minute interview with one of ecobee's VP of Engineering held over Microsoft Teams.
• Round 4: A 60-minute presentation case study presentation to the panel of interviewers you met in Rounds 2 and 3. (Case study materials and instructions are provided in advance for you to prepare.)