Director of Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of delivery across three distinct product lines, encompassing roadmap tracking, release coordination, cross-team dependencies, and risk escalation.

• Create a unified source of truth for visibility and accountability in engineering delivery.

• Develop and oversee a structured incident and on-call program across multiple time zones, ensuring thorough follow-through on postmortems.

• Define, instrument, and automate reporting on engineering KPIs, including cycle time, lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, escaped defects, uptime against SLOs, and team health.

• Convert engineering signals into actionable insights for leadership.

• Collaborate with the Director of Product on capacity modeling, roadmap commitments, and trade-offs.

• Lead staffing and capacity planning efforts across all three product lines.

• Work alongside Product and Finance on headcount forecasting.

• Ensure that projects are fully staffed prior to commencement and halt projects that lack adequate staffing.

• Directly manage and cultivate engineering managers and leads.

• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and performance management processes.

• Establish a consistent management layer across various geographies.

• Promote the adoption and governance of agentic coding tools during planning, implementation, and review phases.

• Set standards for human review, code provenance, security review, intellectual property, and data handling.

• Measure the returns of AI-assisted development in collaboration with the executive AI sponsor.

• Balance fully loaded costs against delivery outcomes, such as cycle time and quality.

• Communicate delivery impact through metrics like shipped work, cycle time, quality, and AI ROI.

• Redirect VP of Engineering capacity towards architecture and MVP development.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a Director role or in senior engineering management.

• Experience in managing delivery across multiple concurrent products.

• Proven track record in leading distributed global teams, including oversight of managers.

• Strong technical expertise, with a background in shipping software and independently assessing system design and technical risk.

• Rigorous program and operations management skills.

• Proficient hands-on experience with GitHub, including Projects, Actions, and workflow design.

• Leadership experience in migrations is highly preferred.

• Working knowledge of AI coding tools and a clear perspective on their effects on review practices and quality control.

• Familiarity with engineering metrics, including their instrumentation, interpretation, and practices to prevent gaming.

• Exceptional executive communication skills that translate engineering execution into business outcomes.

• A history of collaborative partnerships with a Director or Head of Product.

• Preferred experience in scale-up growth environments.

• Experience with blended FTE and contractor staffing models is preferred.

• Familiarity with GovTech is a plus.

• A background across multiple domains is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Flexible working hours and options for remote work.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and a dedicated learning budget.

• Budget for home office setup and IT needs.

• A supportive team environment.

• The opportunity to engage in innovative projects utilizing cutting-edge technologies.