Director of Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Oversee Moxie's Engineering organization as its primary day-to-day leader.

• Take charge of delivery, organizational wellness, manager development, staffing, and engineering operational strategy for approximately 60 engineers.

• Spearhead the AI strategy and implementation throughout the product and software development lifecycle.

• Collaborate daily with the Head of Engineering and Product leadership within the operating rhythm of Product and Engineering.

• Serve as the initial point of escalation for cross-team delivery, staffing, and execution challenges.

• Manage engineering delivery comprehensively from start to finish.

• Enhance Engineering performance and health metrics utilizing Linear, DORA, and reliability indicators.

• Execute specific operational enhancements and leverage KPIs to motivate actions across teams.

• Evaluate AI utilization and promote AI or agentic initiatives into production.

• Integrate AI-assisted development within the Engineering operational framework.

• Establish a decisive technical roadmap and distribute capacity across product delivery, architecture, platform investment, reliability, developer productivity, and technical debt.

• Direct architecture and the AI roadmap while remaining closely involved in technical tasks.

• Mentor and develop Engineering Managers and staff engineers.

• Influence engineering organization design, staffing, hiring strategies, and technical execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering.

• 5+ years in a leadership role within engineering.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience leading managers and technical leaders.

• Proven experience managing a 30–60 person engineering organization through multiple Engineering Managers.

• Skilled in establishing a consistent management standard, developing and coaching Engineering Managers, and making decisions regarding performance, staffing, and organizational design.

• Background in creating KPI systems using DORA, cycle time, and reliability metrics.

• Experience collaborating with Product leaders to identify risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.

• Demonstrated success in developing production AI and agentic systems.

• Familiarity with shipping AI within a product or software development lifecycle, including standards for evaluation, observability, security, and cost.

• Strong knowledge of system design, software design patterns, and engineering processes and principles.

• Comfortable with agile methodologies, scrum, SRE, and DevOps practices.

• Experience in reviewing and designing architectural solutions.

• Ability to make capacity trade-offs between feature delivery and platform investment.

• Experience in building and shaping engineering organizations, including hiring strategies, people management, SDLC maturity, and organizational design.

• Proven track record of working closely with founders and senior technical leaders.

• Experience in health tech or vertical SaaS is advantageous.

• Must reside in the United States and have authorization to work there; visa sponsorship inquiries will be addressed in the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock/equity: 0.068%–0.092%.

• Bonus: 10% target.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Competitive salary package.

• Flexible remote work options.

• Interview accommodations available upon request.