Executive Director, Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of delivery, execution, and outcomes across various engineering teams.

• Lead and mentor engineering managers, fostering high-impact team performance.

• Cultivate a high-performing engineering organization through accountability, established operating rhythms, talent development, and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, data, security, and business stakeholders to define strategy and roadmaps.

• Supervise backend data services, APIs, pipelines, and data products to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance.

• Influence technical and architectural decisions in collaboration with architects and senior engineers.

• Establish and enhance engineering processes for planning, prioritization, execution, dependencies, and releases.

• Relay portfolio plans, risks, milestones, status, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Advocate for software development best practices, code quality, test automation, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.

• Ensure production reliability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and response processes.

• Safeguard data quality, security, privacy, governance, and adherence to regulatory compliance.

• Collaborate on organizational planning, staffing, succession planning, and resource allocation.

• Guide leaders and teams through periods of organizational change and growth.

• Monitor industry trends and promote the adoption of valuable emerging technologies and engineering practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong background in backend and data engineering, particularly with APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and platform infrastructure.

• At least 4 years of experience in engineering leadership, managing engineering managers and leading multiple teams or functional areas.

• Proven experience in building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and leadership development.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical programs across multiple teams with responsibility for delivery, resource planning, and business outcomes.

• Experience in developing production-grade applications using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.

• Proficient in designing and scaling data APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures.

• Knowledgeable in data warehousing, data pipelines, data integration, and data product development.

• Familiar with SQL and NoSQL technologies such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and DynamoDB.

• Experience with AWS, Git, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, SQS, and SNS.

• Skilled in establishing unit, integration, end-to-end, load, and security testing strategies.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong operational leadership abilities, including incident management, reliability, and service ownership.

• Capability to balance strategic thinking with practical technical judgment and execution.

• Preferred: experience with NestJS, FastAPI, Kafka, Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Datadog, and PagerDuty.

• Preferred: experience leading platform, data, or backend engineering teams in product-focused environments.

• Preferred: familiarity with governance, compliance, and security in regulated settings.

• Preferred: experience in driving organizational transformation, engineering maturity, and platform modernization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave).

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance plan.

• Vision insurance benefits.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.