Join our team and help bring our clients' biggest ideas to light.
Reaktiv is actively searching for an Associate Director of Development to join our remote team. You will lead and manage a team of developers, tracking both their career growth and their day to day work. You will mentor and guide your direct reports, while still digging in to projects as a billable contributor.
You will also lead and help manage client projects. This can range from general oversight on projects to consulting and helping with overall architectural and technical decision making and solutions. Your guidance on projects will be invaluable to our client relationships and overall team effectiveness.
The ideal candidate is experienced both as an engineer and as a people manager. A successful candidate will have strong communication skills and lead their team with empathy and direction, and promote a collaborative working environment. This position will report to the Director of Development.
Requirements:
- Meeting one-on-one with your team members and guiding them on approaches to client projects, professional development opportunities, and technical expertise
- Providing regular verbal and written feedback to direct reports to highlight potential areas of improvement and celebrate success
- Collaborating with the delivery team to establish priorities and ideal processes across the team
- Ensuring that team members are unblocked and set up for success
- Serving in the lead role on client projects, helping with technical scopes, project plans and task breakdowns
- Building flexible, performant, and reusable code that follows established best practices
- Communicating directly with clients about our technical approach
Does this sound like you?
- You are able to take complex technical solutions and implementations and communicate to clients in a straightforward way
- You are an effective engineering leader with experience across the full technology stack and the ability to educate others
- You have experience leading development teams working across different projects
- You're dedicated to developing your skills as part of a highly collaborative team
- You can keep track of several projects at once and delegate work effectively based on changing requirements
- You're committed to building, maintaining, supporting, and refactoring web sites and content management systems (with a focus on WordPress)
- You love participating in positive and collaborative peer code reviews
- You possess a high level understanding of PHP and JavaScript, and are proficient in SQL, and WordPress theme and plugin development
- You embrace your curious nature by approaching new and complex problems with gusto, and continuously seek out opportunities to grow
Benefits
What is it like to work at Reaktiv?
We’re a close-knit, fully distributed team who enjoy the challenge of solving hard problems together with clients like Atlassian, Cornell University, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, NBCUniversal and Wirecutter. We’re also one of the few WordPress VIP Gold agency partners in the world.
We are a 100% remote company, with no set hours, where each employee works from home or a co-working space. Even though we’re far away, we’re in contact throughout the day in Slack, Asana and Zoom.
We encourage continual education through weekly lunch and learns and taking courses to keep us ahead of the latest advancements. Our team also enjoys getting out from behind their desks and attending WordCamps and conferences across the country. We’re frequent WordCamp speakers and core contributors.
While we may work hard during the week we prioritize a healthy work-life balance. Our off hours are reserved for playing guitar, exploring the outdoors, and spending time with our families and friends.
We’re proud to offer a competitive compensation package that includes:
- Competitive salary
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 401k with employer match
- 13 holidays + 17 days PTO + we close the last week of the year
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- Equipment budget
- Conference and continued education budget
- Annual team retreats
Ready to apply?
Must be lawfully permitted to work in the US, and please, no recruiters.
Reaktiv is committed to equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion
Reaktiv Studios, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences that people imagine to discriminate against one another.
If you have a disability, please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the application and interview process more comfortable and accessible for you.