Director, Engineering - Developer Tooling

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet The Team: 

The Developer Tooling organization is focused on enabling and empowering developers by delivering highly efficient systems that enhance developer productivity across the engineering organization. We are looking for a seasoned leader that will bring new ideas, optimizations, and best practices for the entire software organization. As a director, you will work closely with managers and engineers to improve the processes that support the development of high-quality safety-critical software.  

What You’ll Do:

• Develops business plans and operational priorities to meet goals and objectives of the organization.
• Facilitate processes for the delivery of scalable and high-quality systems products for autonomous driving vehicles and support systems.
• Collaborates with other management and teams as needed to meet goals, monitor team performance, and achieve objectives.
• Responsible for understanding the technical domain of the team’s software services
• Accountable and responsible for career development and coaching of the team.
• Accountable and responsible for selection and performance management of their teams.
• Accountable and responsible for ensuring continuous performance feedback is delivered and compensation analysis in close collaboration with peer managers and People Operations.

What You’ll Need to Succeed: 

• Ability to be a strategic partner to the organization and identify & plan how to meet future needs of the organization.
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated leader of developer tooling acting as an advisor to other leaders on relevant trends and emerging issues.
• Ability to effectively manage a team of managers and professionals and identify opportunities to grow and develop the team.
• Ability to evangelize best practices and promote consistent standards including test automation, observability, and performance metrics.
• Experience leading teams that work with cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Develop plans and anticipate the needs for incident …