Are you a creative, customer-centric Software Engineering Leader that wants an opportunity to have a real impact on customers and a professional services engineering team? Are you looking to break out of your current lane and broaden the impact your work can have on a business? Do you want to work in an environment that fosters and looks to align your passions with overall team goals? Do you want to work in an entrepreneurial environment that is flexible and focused on results? Do you want to be a part of a team that loves what they are building and is delivering awesome software that customers love to use? If so, we might have the perfect opportunity for you!

Crelate, a fast-growing Kirkland-based startup with over 1,400 business customers, seeks an Engineering Lead to join our growing Professional Services organization. You will be an important part of our Professional Services Team with large say in how the team is run, how solutions are implemented, what tradeoffs we should make, and what the future looks like.

This is a technical and consultative position, balancing strong development ability with excellent customer skills. Being able to say “Yes with an if, and No with a but” is critical. You will help customers transform their businesses through custom code, system configuration and other creative solutions to deliver success, on quality, on time and on budget.

Crelate’s mission is to help more people, connect with better opportunities, more often. To do this, we are building the fastest, easiest, and most flexible recruiting and talent engagement software on the market, and we need your help to get the word out!

Responsibilities of this leadership position include:

• Guide, mentor and manage a team of Professional Services Engineers regarding architecture and best practices.
• Review and coach developers on project designs for design review presentations.
• Initiate, lead, and deliver improvements in the effectiveness of engineers.
• Lead the team as if it is a small startup in a bigger ecosystem with broad cross-team mindset.
• Ensure all customer projects are completed on time, on budget and within scope of customer contract expectations.
• Scope and deliver custom customer projects from a development standpoint.
• Lead the team appropriately and efficiently regarding product goals and deliverables.
• Maintain a high and rising high bar for developers on your team through architecture and design review, estimation, code reviews, pair programing, education, and other novel practices.
• Participate in the daily standup, drive your team’s features to done, and collaboratively work in a team environment.
• Engage in customer calls to discuss complex technical issues.
• Grow and scale your abilities as the company grows.

Requirements of this position:

• Data-driven. You use data to guide decisions and optimize results.
• Passion for product. You love being part of a product; you find ways to use our product every day, you will support customers use of our product. This inspires you to build great features.
• Customer centricity. You are passionate about customers as people. You’ll build a deep understanding of their needs by speaking with and supporting them. With this, you will create better features that help our customers succeed and our company to achieve its mission.
• Unwavering curiosity. You love to learn and better yourself and the people and things around you. You prefer direct feedback and use it to better yourself and others. Not knowing something and growing motivates you to new heights. You have a growth mindset.
• Organized and an eye for detail. You have excellent organizational skills and pixel-perfect attention to detail.
• Communication. You have excellent presentation, analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• Resourceful. You care about our company’s resources like they were your own. You know that perfect is the enemy of done.
• You get it done. In the face of uncertainty, and multiple competing priorities you have a bias for action. Through collaboration and creative solutions, you deliver success.

Desired Experience:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of development management experience
• 2+ years of technical consulting or similar experience
• Strong database design, data model, ETL and data transformation experience.
• Expertise in server-side technologies, such as ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server, and in building .NET/C# web-based applications
• Proven experience with owning or driving the development of project-based technical projects, or custom software development.
• Software pattern-based design principles (gang of four) and related concepts, such as dependency injection, separation of responsibilities, and clean coding
• Experience with Azure or competing cloud technology offerings and cloud-centric design patterns
• Demonstratable ability to envision and design solutions using technical abilities, system configuration, 3rd party products and custom developed solutions to achieve customer goals.

We can offer you:

• Flexible work hours
• Plenty of opportunities to learn, grow your career, and wear lots of hats
• Startup life – flexible, relaxed, yet high stakes work environment
• Awesome coworkers who care about their work and each other
• Competitive benefits including:
• Flexible spending and dependent care accounts
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401k with matching
• Long and short-term disability insurance
• A life insurance policy
• Remote first, flexible work environment, with internet and home office stipends.
• A generous paid leave policy, which includes up to 14 days of office holidays (including a company-wide winter break)
• And for team members who excel, stock option grants.

Our Culture:

We are entrepreneurial, passionate and relentless about customer success. Everyone on the team talks and works directly with customers. Period. We share a collective passion for success, but not at any cost. We are striving to build an amazing product and a great business. This is no trivial task, and we lean on each other as we iterate our way to success. We value transparency, passion, effort, results, and growth.