Director of Engineering - (Remote - USA / CANADA)
Published on December 10, 2024
Our mission at Wrapbook is to increase the prosperity of the project economy. A significant shift has occurred within the workforce recently and 50M Americans are now engaged in freelance or project-based work. The popularity of project based employment has introduced flexibility for both employers and employees but also added complexities from a compensation and administrative standpoint. Our vertical fintech platform enables companies to seamlessly onboard, pay and insure their workforces.
We're building the best product for the entertainment industry but operate in a 50B market and have big goals we want to achieve. With over 130M USD raised from Tiger Global Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Equal Ventures, Uncork Capital, Jeffrey Katzenberg and CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz, we are at an exciting stage of growth and there isn't a better time to join!
About Us:
Wrapbook is a smart, intuitive platform that makes production payroll and accounting easier, faster, and more secure. We provide a unified payroll platform that seamlessly connects your entire team—production, accounting, cast, and crew—all in one place. Wrapbook empowers production teams to manage projects, pay cast and crew, track expenses, and generate data-driven insights, while enabling workers to manage timecards, track pay, and onboard to new projects from any device. Wrapbook brings clarity and dependability to production payroll, while increasing the productivity of your whole team.
Trusted by companies of all sizes, Wrapbook powers payroll for some of the industry’s top production companies, including SMUGGLER, Tuff, and GhostRobot. Our growing team of 250+ people across the USA and Canada, including entertainment and technology experts from SAG-AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, Teamsters, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and more. Wrapbook is backed by top-tier investors, including Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, Andreessen Horowitz, and A* Capital. We have raised $130M and are in a strong financial position.
The Opportunity – Director of Engineering (Remote - USA / CANADA)
We are looking for a Director of Engineering who will be influential in driving our mission to build an outstanding technology company. As a Director of Engineering, you will leverage your established technical experience to ensure rigor in technical decisions that align with the priorities of the business. You will create high-performance teams with strong accountability and psychological safety to get to the best solutions for problems. Your strong customer focus lets you find where technical capabilities and customer needs can come together in simple, elegant solutions.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills allow you to drive initiatives within engineering and influence the broader organization effectively. You will also be responsible for building technical roadmaps with the team based on existing, challenging problem spaces rife with opportunity for growth and improvement.
At the most basic level, the Payables group at Wrapbook is responsible for payments against complex industry agreements - ensuring accuracy and speed - which is absolutely core and essential to our operations. This is an exciting time to join Payables with its unique ability to increase our growth in customer acquisition and subsequently market share. However, this growth also necessitates the ability to navigate through ambiguity and strong prioritization skills, providing a realistic view of the challenges and opportunities in this role.
What you'll do:
- Build high quality, fault tolerant products that customers love
- Foster an inclusive team environment where your team can do their best work
- Empower your team to solve problems while providing context and guardrails as needed.
- Work with product, UX, Data and other disciplines to discover the best solutions for our customers
- Drive projects that have impact across engineering and the broader company
- Grow the team both through internal development and external hiring
- Advocate for quick iterative development accompanied by experimentation analysis
- Ensure we have the right balance of work towards short term and long term goals
What you’ll have:
- Over 3 years of engineering management and experience managing managers.
- Technical expertise in one or more relevant areas, particularly the design, implementation and maintenance of web services and/or infrastructure
- Proven ability to lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders
- Experience helping teams through change in a growing company
- Experience building and successfully growing development teams
- A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results
- Experience working with Scrum or Agile team
Our Tech Stack:
- Full stack Ruby on Rails (Frontend & Backend)
- StimulusJS
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
Why Join Us
At Wrapbook, creativity meets technology — and not just in the product.
In addition to a competitive salary and all the benefits you can expect from a fast-growing technology company, you’ll get access to a team of creative problem solvers and the chance to see your contributions make large impacts. Benefits include:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Work from anywhere in Canada and USA
- Health and Dental benefits
- Up to $1500 towards IT set up for your home
- Up to 2% matching RRSP / 401K
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Up to $50 USD/ $66.50 CAD towards Internet/Cell phone service
Our Pledge to Fostering an Inclusive and Safe Workplace:
Wrapbook pledges to be a harassment- and discrimination-free space for everyone, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, nationality, neurotype, personal appearance, political affiliation, professional background, race, religion, or sexual identity or orientation.
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