Director of Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of delivery across squads, encompassing capacity planning, forecasting, and ensuring visibility into commitments.

• Advocate for the feasibility, methodology, and costs associated with engineering commitments.

• Organize technical tasks and proactively highlight delivery risks.

• Establish standards for design reviews, code reviews, testing, and documentation practices.

• Responsible for reliability, monitoring, and incident response efforts.

• Ensure on-call responsibilities are manageable and sustainable.

• Collaborate with staff engineers to guide architectural direction and promote shared-platform usage.

• Minimize operational overhead through automation, replatforming, and the decommissioning of outdated systems.

• Make technical debt transparent and actionable for funding.

• Mentor, lead, and develop engineering managers, focusing on hiring, performance evaluations, and career growth.

• Cultivate tech leads and senior engineers.

• Define and monitor engineering health metrics.

• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to engineering leadership, product teams, and executives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• More than 4 years of experience in a leadership role overseeing engineers.

• Proven ability to lead through other managers or senior technical leaders.

• Demonstrated history of delivering complex B2B software, preferably in SaaS, fintech, regtech, compliance, trust and safety, or other sectors where precision and defensibility are as crucial as speed.

• Experience managing delivery across multiple teams, including capacity planning, forecasting, and dependency management.

• Established credibility in estimation and a history of reliable commitments.

• Experience collaborating with a product counterpart at the same level.

• In-depth technical knowledge in architecture, API and integration design, and data modeling.

• Experience utilizing a shared platform or paved road instead of constructing parallel infrastructure for each team.

• Strong understanding of reliability practices, including observability, incident response, and maintaining a sustainable on-call system.

• Proven experience in hiring, developing, and retaining engineers and engineering managers.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• International remote work is not supported.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• A team that is genuinely committed to your success.