Director of Engineering

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Inkitt seeks a Director of Engineering to lead feature engineering across its mobile apps, websites, and future projects. Responsibilities include building and managing a high-performing engineering team (5-10+ engineers), establishing a strong engineering brand, leveraging AI across operations, participating in leadership brainstorms, and identifying business growth opportunities. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in full-stack mobile development, understands delivery KPIs, and can balance rapid shipping with user value and code maintainability. Experience in attracting and retaining top talent is a plus, as is prior experience in a small company environment working closely with the CEO and leadership.
Must have:
  • Lead feature engineering across mobile apps and websites
  • Build and manage a high-performing engineering team
  • Extensive experience in full-stack mobile development
  • Strong understanding of quality product engineering
  • Collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience attracting, onboarding, developing, and retaining diverse top talent
  • Experience in a small company environment, collaborating directly with CEO/Leadership Suite

Job Details

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

What You'll Do:

    • Lead feature engineering across Inkitt’s portfolio of Mobile Apps and Web Sites, including future apps we have not thought of yet
    • Identify and recruit top product engineers and build a team rooted in high-performing results-oriented culture
    • Build a strong engineering brand for our team by scheduling and hosting events and creating a persistent online presence 
    • Provide visibility and clarity into the operation of your team and the technology you produce and identify opportunities for leveling up
    • Leverage and evangelize the use of Artificial Intelligence in all aspects of your team’s and greater company’s operations
    • Participate in leadership-wide brainstorms, help identify opportunities for business growth, and develop rapid prototypes to validate potential new products or features

What You'll Bring:

    • Experienced in a leading/managing a consumer-focused Product  Engineering Team made up of 5-10+ engineers
    • You have extensive experience in hands-on Software Engineering in full-stack mobile development
    • Know everything there is to know about creating, monitoring and improving delivery KPIs
    • A collaborative mindset and excellent English language skills that allow you to solve problems side-by-side with stakeholders from various backgrounds and perspectives
    • A strong understanding of quality product engineering, allowing you to balance between shipping things quickly and maximizing user value, while ensuring stability and codebase maintainability
    • Able to give constructive feedback, set objectives and develop suitable Personal Development Plans
    • Experience in attracting, onboarding, developing, and retaining diverse top talent in your teams is a plus
    • You have worked in a small company environment, collaborating directly with CEO / Leadership Suite and find being this close to company’s helm a strong plus
At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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About The Company

We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed. Therefore, our mission is to discover hidden talents and turn them into globally successful authors.


Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.


Hits that are identified by our algorithm, are then licensed to and distributed on our Galatea app where we systematically generate blockbusters by A/B testing the content of our stories. This process is our own unique creation, and something which has never before been done in the entertainment industry. 


At present, we are an international team of 85 passionate and dedicated inventors and entrepreneurs and we are growing quickly. We are proud that our mission has persuaded early investors in Google and Spotify to back us, as well as attracted talents from Netflix, Activision Blizzard, DeliveryHero, Babbel, and N26 to join us.


We invent new solutions to problems we encounter, as opposed to simply iterating upon existing solutions. 


Join us to build the Disney of the 21st Century!


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