Director Engineering - Mule ESB - San Francisco MuleSoft

MuleSoft is creating a new generation of lightweight integration platform that makes integrating applications, consuming APIs and web services - both on premise and in the cloud. We are a well funded, San Francisco-based start-up with a killer team, an existing community of over 100,000 users, partners and customers (from banks and airlines to successful e-commerce sites and the latest SaaS startups) great buzz, and superb investors. We're moving fast, building neat stuff, and changing integration middleware into a platform as a service delivery model.
Do you wake up each day feeling like the work you are going to do will make a difference and change the company you work for in a meaningful way? Do your colleagues know what you do and count on you to do it exceptionally well? Do you expect the same from every member of your team every day? This is what it takes to thrive at MuleSoft, where high performance is demanded in every position from accounting to engineering.
As Director of Engineering for Mule ESB, you will have complete engineering ownership and oversight of the development and delivery of official Mule community and enterprise software releases. Your software will be consumed by 100,000's of developers and thousands of companies that use and rely on Mule ESB every day. In addition, you will play a strategic role in interfacing with customers and building relationships at the technical team and management level.
Your success depends on your ability to achieve the following:

• Absolute commitment by you and your team to release high quality product on time
• Recruit, challenge, and reward high performance individuals that deliver 10x the product and impact of the engineers our competitors settle for
• Fanatical attention to the user experience at every level of the product
• Attention to the critical “last mile†details of a project and an inability to accept mediocre work
• Intimate collaboration across cross-functional teams to ensure priorities and schedules are aligned
• Listen to customers and elicit confidence that our software and engineering processes will meet their demands
• Assist sales and services to build stronger relationships with strategic customers

To be successful, you must be an incredible manager, leader, recruiter, and agile coach. But wait, there's more! We also expect you to be technically brilliant. You always have an opinion on a software architecture, design, or best practice and can communicate it constructively and articulately to teammates and management. You are not afraid to get into the bits and provide code reviews, test implementations of Mule, and assess proper behavior of existing code.
You excel at designing systems supported by rapid, agile development. Constructive feedback from a customer or community user â€" figure out how we make the next iteration even better. You also grok distributed systems architecture and know how to build a system that supports the highest levels of scale and throughput and intimately know and understand the latest open source technologies, their tradeoffs, and the correct patterns to apply in enterprise integration.
Qualifications

• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, visiting our development offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina as well as customers and speaking at conferences
• Can demonstrate past accomplishments that convince us you can deliver everything we ask above
• Have passion for the role, the products we offer and the domain that MuleSoft plays in
• Have done something amazing you are proud of

About Us
MuleSoft is solving the largest and most important problem in IT: integration. Companies spend $500 billion dollars every year writing custom integration code to make systems work together - a problem that's only increasing with the cloud. MuleSoft is an explosive-growth, well-funded, early stage company on a mission to fix integration. We connect applications and companies as easily as Facebook connects people, and our technology is a key enabler of cloud, social, mobile and the enterprise. We have big name customers like JP Morgan, BMW, Walmart, Nokia and Zynga, and over 3,000 companies and 100,000 developers use our products.
Our goal is to build a great company filled with exceptional people who challenge and respect each other. Are you looking for a fast-paced environment with a huge market opportunity and unlimited growth potential? If you want to have a big impact on our success, love working in high performing teams, and have the track record to prove it, we want to meet you!

Location:	United States