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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Remote only
Datasite and its associated businesses are the global center for facilitating economic value creation for companies across the globe. From data rooms to AI deal sourcing
and more. Here you’ll find the finest technological pioneers: Datasite, Blueflame AI, Grata, and Sherpany. They all, collectively, define the future for business growth.
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Job Description:
Grata is the leading private market dealmaking platform. We make it easy to find, research, and engage with private companies. Our platform has the most comprehensive, accurate, and searchable proprietary data on private companies, their financials, and their owners.
We help leading investors (PE/growth), investment bankers, management consultants, and corporate development teams discover and win more deals. Grata has over 700 customers and has been widely recognized as the market leader by G2, PE Wire, and more.
The Software Engineering Director partners closely with Product Management, Architecture, Platform Engineering, Security, Quality Engineering, and business stakeholders to align technology execution with organizational priorities while fostering a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. This role is responsible for leading multiple engineering teams, provides strategic leadership across engineering functions, drives execution of product roadmaps, develops engineering talent, and ensures delivery of secure, reliable, and high-quality technology solutions.
At Grata, we will expect you to:
Develop client focused software products across a variety of platforms and business verticals.
Working closely with leadership to create product development plans and encourage and lead agile techniques to develop world class technologies and product offerings.
Developing and leading an innovative software engineering team – establish focus, engage, and inspire others, manage performance and executive rapid product delivery.
Working closely with the leaders of many departments and very closely with product management to set and deliver against product roadmaps.
Committed to continuous delivery process improvements.
Committed to rapid product customer focused delivery.
Bringing metrics-driven leadership style to the Datasite software engineering team.
Develop trusted partnerships and collaborate effectively with business leaders and decision makers.
Maintain open and active lines of communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Operate within company cultural values of trust, teamwork, transition, and accountability.
What we are looking for:
Minimum 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
Minimum 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing teams and engineering managers.
Experience leading large-scale SaaS products, cloud-based platforms, or enterprise software solutions
Demonstrated success delivering complex technical initiatives in Agile environments.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.
Solid experience with Python / Java.
Strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms
You have excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Experience working with and building user facing features.
Familiarity with AWS and its suite of services.
Experience working with event-driven microservice architectures in production environments.
Demonstrated experience in collaboration on features from the conceptual phase through to release.
Bonus points if you have experience with ElasticSearch or MongoDB
Our company is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce where all individuals are respected and valued. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are dedicated to building teams that reflect the diversity of our communities.