Director, Systems Development

Location: New York, NY

Department: Technology

Type: Full Time

Min. Experience: Experienced

Warby Parker is a transformative fashion brand offering designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially-conscious businesses. We're seeking a remarkable engineer to manage our application development practice utilizing both internal and vendor resources to produce systems that make our company successful. You'll be working in a fast-paced, fun environment, and your work will affect millions of people. While experience is appreciated, the ability to learn and apply new technologies is equally important if not more so. This is a salaried full-time position with benefits.

Since all work and no play makes a dull office, we’re thoroughly committed to infusing our days with food, surprises, brain-stimulating activities and, when appropriate, costumes. As a team member at Warby Parker you can look forward to catered lunches three times a week, company outings, guest speakers, and all sorts of other goodness.

What you'll do:

Architect and develop modular, scalable applications that integrate across the enterprise
Recruit, mentor, and manage software engineers ranging from junior to senior
Ensure the creation of amazing code
Ensure the production of even more amazing documentation
Review partner and vendor systems and code for integration
Evaluate and make technical recommendations for systems, working closely with other departments
Collect and convert functional requirements to architecture and technical specifications
Set and enforce the highest standards in software production
Participate in and lead code reviews
Participate in application testing

Qualifications:

12+ years of relevant work experience
6+ years software architecture experience
4+ years of software team management
Thorough understanding of Java and PHP. Right now we primarily use PHP and are adding Java, you must be willing (eager?) to code in other languages.
Strong experience with service-oriented architectures, message queueing (MQ), and enterprise service buses (ESBs).
Thorough knowledge of SQL (particularly MySQL)
Knowledge of scaling and application optimization
Unit testing experience, particularly with PHPUnit and Selenium
Knowledge of standards and best practice design patterns for Object Oriented Programming, MVC and Database design
Good design taste (even for internal applications)
Eye for details
Ability to work among multiple teams and communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical teammates
A willingness to gain and share knowledge