Director of Engineering

Remote - US Remote - Canada Remote - North America Remote - South America Remote - Mexico Full Time Director

Published on April 01, 2025

At Recast, we're building the next generation of media measurement technology. We're scientists and engineers applying cutting-edge techniques to the hardest problems in a multi-hundred-billion dollar market. Every year, billions of dollars are wasted on ineffective and unmeasurable marketing campaigns — Recast helps marketers measure the unmeasurable and save millions of dollars of marketing budget.

Recast is built by scientists, for marketers. We are committed to using the world’s most advanced techniques and technologies to solve problems for marketers. We take our jobs as scientists seriously: we are committed to pursuing the truth in all its glory and we don’t shy away from uncomfortable truths (even if it means telling a customer something they don’t want to hear). By providing an independent and unbiased assessment of marketing performance, Recast gives marketers a central source of truth they can trust.

Recast is looking for a highly motivated and entrepreneurial director of engineering to help us accelerate our engineering and product development practice.
 
What you'll do in your first 6 months:
  • Get to know our team of nine highly experienced software engineers – start one-on-ones and build development plans for each of them
  • Develop and (start to) implement a medium-term engineering roadmap that accelerates product velocity while reinforcing our core infrastructure
  • Help us rapidly grow our software engineering team while still keeping the quality bar high and maintaining a culture of product and engineering excellence in the team
  • 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:
  • 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 director of engineering you’ll be leading our full engineering organization made up of three subteams: app developers, R developers, and infrastructure / platform engineering. The Recast product and delivery model is very complex and so shipping features often require 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).
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!
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