Director of Engineering

Salary Competitive

Trustpilot is a global, online review community that builds trust and transparency between consumers and businesses. Currently boasting more than 24 million consumer reviews of 140,000 businesses, Trustpilot produces a TrustScore for businesses based on recent reviews. Trustpilot’s community is live in 27 countries and more than 10,000 consumers sign up to Trustpilot every day. The platform also helps businesses generate insights through customer review data analytics.


Do you want to take part in developing the products of one of the fastest growing online companies in Europe? Do you have a passion for innovating, mentoring others and working with the latest technologies in an agile environment? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

Trustpilot is looking for a Director of Engineering with full-stack experience and strong skills in front-end technologies to join our Technology team. We move fast, ship daily and iterate constantly to improve our product. We have some exciting challenges and would love your help to build an engineering culture that makes everyone feel empowered to write their best code. 

Who You Are 

You have experience working with modern web frameworks. You are a strong full-stack developer with a particular interest in working in the front-end. Code reviews, pair programming and designing hackathons sound like fun and are an opportunity for you to learn something new every day. You’ve had several years of professional experience, are comfortable being in a lead position, and have managed/led a team of developers.    

What We Expect 

As an Engineering Director at Trustpilot, you will:  

  • Be a part of the Trustpilot Engineering Management Team, which has the full responsibility of the technical architecture and the standard software used to build our products. 
  • Take ownership of Agile processes used by the teams together with the rest of the Engineering Management and Product Management team.
  • Lead the architecture and co-own the Trustpilot general APIs First and Microservice Architecture.
  • Work closely with the teams to remove any obstacles and ensure they are able to work agile and independently.
  • Manage teams of Engineers, which includes mentoring, career development, handling 1:1 meetings and leading by example.

Must have

  • Oral and written English on very high level - our Company language is English in all locations. 
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced and continually changing environment
  • Agile mindset
  • Eagerness to learn new things

 Good to have

  • Smart creative personality 
  • International experience
  • Experience with interviewing and hiring developers
  • Experience working with dual track development

Some Technologies We Use 

  • Node.js and JavaScript 
  • Modern frontend stack (like AngularJs, React)
  • .NET and C#
  • DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redshift
  • Amazon Web Service technologies (Lambda, SQS, S3, ECS, etc.)

Check our entire technology stack here: https://stackshare.io/trustpilot

 We Offer 

  • 20% time, where you have the opportunity to innovate and learn new things 
  • Monthly hackathons that allow you to work on cool ideas
  • Contribute to an exciting international growth journey
  • Opportunities to learn and develop your career
  • Awesome talented colleagues and a social working environment with fun events
  • Great office location in central Copenhagen
  • Foosball - we play a lot of table foosball
  • Relaxed and team-oriented atmosphere

Meet the team

Check out more about our Technology team here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BfqJ92QAY&t=9s

Our technology team consists of 85 people in Copenhagen, Denmark and 12 in our recently-opened Vilnius office, in Lithuania. Trustpilot Tech has 8 cross-functional agile product teams. It's our job to make cool things that people everywhere will love. So, we think bigger and better than your average bear. We work fast to deliver relevant, valuable products, and we always deliver. Of course, alongside all that hard work, we like to play. Whether it's foosball, whiskey tasting, or making you laugh out loud with our crazy humor, we like to have fun.

Application 

If you think that this role is made for you, please send in your resume and application letter in English and tell us why you would be the ideal candidate.  You are welcome to contact Anabel Morales at  anm@trustpilot.com if you have any questions. 

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
Trustpilot

Trustpilot is a global, online review community that builds trust and transparency between consumers and businesses. At Trustpilot, we’re passionate about our mission to inspire ever-improving experiences for everyone. Working here is an opportunity to collaborate with talented people in a fast-paced, and agile environment. With vibrant office locations all around the world and over 40 nationalities, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace with diverse perspectives and ideas.  While Trustpilot has grown beyond being a startup, they’re very much operating like a startup with things moving at a fast pace. As an employee you’re able to manage things as you most see fit and allowed to be creative. Employees here are driven and like to have fun whilst working hard and feeling pride in creating a great website. Besides the actual work, we have plenty of social clubs here which involve cooking, cycling, movies and more - if the club doesn’t exist already you’re welcome to create it and receive support and funds from Trustpilot. Regular Friday bars involve themes and quizzes, there’s always something fun happening as it’s a very social company.

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