Engineering Lead-Core Library

About the position:

Do you love writing Rust? At Ditto we bet on the language to power our cross-platform data sync system. We are growing our team and looking for others who are similarly passionate about the language!

The Core Library team at Ditto is responsible for building a foundational Rust library that is wrapped by our many SDKs, and also embedded directly into our cloud components. This team sits right at the heart of everything we do, and plays a major role in feature development. Your role is to lead this small team of talented software engineers while actively contributing yourself. 

As the Engineering Lead, you will:

• Lead and magnify the impact of a team of 2-4 skilled individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work.
• Plan and deliver high-quality engineering solutions that align with the business needs and objectives.
• Be an active part of both the design and implementation of the system, with a mixture of hands-on engineering and team leadership.
• Work with product and design to build the roadmap for the team; this will involve talking to engineers, researchers, other teams, customers, and partners.
• Estimate the delivery timeline for projects and communicate with upper management and the broader team regarding project execution.
• Set team culture by example, expanding Ditto’s culture of Trust, Communication, and Continual Improvement.
• Mentor, coach, and advocate for your team members.

What you’ll need:

• 2+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, and career development.
• 2+ years of technical leadership, including driving best practices, project scoping and design, and providing architectural guidance.
• Excellent fluency in Rust, including proficiency with:
• Asynchronous programming, including cancel safety
• Concurrency primitives and multithreading
• Unit and integration testing, with bonus points for lightweight formal methods such as property testing
• Strong type system knowledge and applicability of this knowledge to idiomatic Rust design patterns (e.g. typestate, builder, etc.)
• Experience developing features for libraries while maintaining API backwards compatibility.
• Strong communication skills, particularly written communication skills. As a fully distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written architecture and design documents.

Nice to haves:

• Experience managing a remote, globally distributed team.
• Experience in architect or other Staff+ roles 
• Fluency in other programming languages for which Ditto publishes a native SDK (e.g., C++, Kotlin/Java, Swift, JavaScript, or C#)
• Experience working with mobile SDKs (iOS, Android, etc)
• Experience working with FFIs and unsafe code
• Experience working with build systems, in particular but not limited to Cargo (e.g. Nix, Bazel, CMake, etc.)
• Experience with distributed tracing, metrics, telemetry, etc. - with a particular focus on the Rust tracing ecosystem, OpenTelemetry, and interoperability between the two