Director, Engineering – Platform/Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Oversee engineering teams tasked with location and messaging, cloud and identity, as well as partner platforms.

• Develop reliable, secure, and scalable systems that support hundreds of millions of users.

• Identify potential architectural bottlenecks, reliability concerns, and scalability issues.

• Define the technical vision and modernize existing legacy systems.

• Set benchmarks for availability, performance, observability, security, and incident management.

• Foster a culture of ownership and accountability within the team.

• Implement engineering metrics that track reliability, performance, cost, security, and developer efficiency.

• Recruit, mentor, and nurture engineering managers, staff engineers, and technical leaders.

• Create reusable services, APIs, and platforms.

• Enhance the partner ecosystem through secure, scalable integrations.

• Align technical strategy with member experience, product agility, and business outcomes.

• Collaborate with Product, Security, Data, and Engineering leaders on priorities and strategic decisions.

• Participate in architectural evaluations and key technical decisions.

• Advocate for AI-assisted development, automation, and contemporary engineering practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of software engineering experience, including more than 5 years in leadership roles, with a focus on managing other managers.

• Proven experience leading backend or platform engineering at scale, with distributed systems supporting millions of users.

• Background in developing and mentoring managers.

• Ability to translate company strategy into technical initiatives and represent team requirements to senior leadership.

• Experience in modernizing legacy systems.

• Strong skills in cross-functional collaboration.

• Hands-on technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems; AWS experience is preferred.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans fully covered for US employees.

• Life and disability insurance along with supplemental medical and dental plans for Canadian employees.

• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions available in the US.

• RRSP with DPSP plan provided for Canadian employees.

• Paid parental leave.

• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) focused on mental health and well-being.

• Generous time off policy: flexible PTO, company-wide holidays throughout the year, along with summer and winter breaks.

• Opportunities for learning and development through various programs.

• Provision of equipment, tools, and reimbursement support to ensure a productive remote working environment.

• Complimentary Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.

• Equity compensation through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).