Director of Engineering, AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Hungary.

📋 Description

• Spearhead AI-driven engineering methodologies by coordinating agents for specifications, coding, testing, verification, and reviews while ensuring human oversight.

• Remain actively involved in the codebase by defining architectural patterns, writing and evaluating critical code, prototyping, and addressing complex technical challenges.

• Take full ownership of the end-to-end delivery of the Product Management roadmap across all deployment platforms.

• Influence architectural and technological decisions for high-assurance environments at scale.

• Recruit, nurture, and retain engineers and team leads in Romania, Vietnam, and Hungary.

• Develop career trajectories and standards for code quality and reviews.

• Execute measurable, thorough, and equitable performance-based management.

• Uphold a security-first standard for both human-written and AI-generated code.

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, AI-assisted development processes, incident response, and operational maturity.

• Document AI-native playbooks, context files, coding harnesses, testing frameworks, and review standards for broader portfolio utilization.

• Collaborate with the VP of Products, Product Management, Design, and security leaders to translate roadmap priorities into engineering execution and timelines.

• Report directly to the VP of Products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Comprehensive agentic development experience (mandatory): personally oversee a complete agentic, AI-powered software development lifecycle from start to finish in B2B and high-security enterprise settings.

• Proven experience in taking a product from specification through to release utilizing an end-to-end AI-assisted lifecycle, encompassing spec generation, code/test generation, automated verification, AI-supported reviews, and CI/CD.

• Over 8 years of software engineering experience.

• At least 3 years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing managers/leads, throughout complex product deliveries at scale.

• A successful track record of building high-performing teams through rigorous and fair performance management.

• Strong understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and contemporary architectural practices.

• Documented success in constructing scalable, distributed solutions, inclusive of relational/document databases, cloud-native services, and modern CI/CD systems.

• High standards for tested, maintainable code and substantial test coverage.

• Capability to lead and coordinate engineers across various countries and time zones in a remote/hybrid, multi-national setup.

• Proficiency in recognizing talented engineers, attracting top talent, and conveying technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

• A security-first mindset regarding design, code review, and incident response.

• Experience in managed file transfer, secure content delivery, data security, or critical infrastructure sectors (preferred).

• Hands-on or managerial experience with .NET Core / C# (preferred).

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP (preferred).

• Experience in writing AI context files such as CLAUDE.md or .cursorrules (preferred).

• Knowledge of running AI agents within CI/CD pipelines (preferred).

• International team experience across multiple countries and time zones (preferred).

• Experience in validating concurrency and thread-safety in high-throughput services (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Stable, expanding international company background with an outstanding customer base.

• Opportunity to enhance your professional skills.

• Access to the latest technology environment.

• Language courses and opportunities for active recreation – kettlebell, football, and office massage.

• Attractive working environment – well-equipped office with daily fruit, coffee, breakfast, tea, etc.

• Regular team events and Happy Hour activities.