Director of Software Engineering
Bevi
Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. Thousands of companies use Bevi to sustainably provide their employees with pure, sparkling, and flavored water at work. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we've raised over $160M in venture capital and we're doubling year over year. In addition to maintaining hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.
We are looking for a Director of Software Engineering who will lead the team responsible for developing Bevi’s proprietary software, creating an integrated experience across machine interfaces and various customer/distributor applications. In addition to machine controls, Bevi’s product includes a homegrown IoT platform to manage operations for, and collect data from, machines in the field. We’re just scratching the surface in terms of what we can do with thousands of internet-connected machines. This role will take Bevi’s customer experience and operational efficiency to the next level by using real-time data to guide logistics and optimize machine performance.
This position will report directly to the VP of Software and will work cross functionally across the organization.
This role is not remote and based in our Boston (Charlestown) headquarters.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the software engineering team who is responsible for the entire stack (OS development, firmware, backend and frontend), the main technologies we use are: Android, AOSP, Kotlin, InfluxDB, Snowflake, Typescript, React, Docker
- Build Bevi’s employer brand as a technical leader in the IoT space. Ensure that team members are achieving their professional goals and outpacing their counterparts in other companies.
- Execute the roadmap for Bevi’s software ecosystem, comprising both applications for our customers as well as internal tools for operations, quality control, and engineering.
- Bring world-class products to market faster and more cost-effectively than our competitors can.
- Grow the capacity of our software team by recruiting FTEs as well as outsourcing to engineering firms.
- Collaborate closely with our product team and hardware engineering team to drive the product roadmap, assess the needs of various stakeholders, and make tradeoffs between budget, features, and timeline.
- Manage outsourced engineering firms, and make strategic decisions about what work to build vs. buy.
- In partnership with our VP of Software, VP Hardware Engineering and our General Counsel, own intellectual property strategy in a changing competitive landscape.