Staff Engineer, Director

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the target architecture and modernization strategy for a two-decade-old .NET revenue and debt-recovery application.

• Establish specifications, sequencing, architectural choices, and acceptance criteria for the incremental replacement of the application.

• Oversee the external partner’s agentic build process, which includes delivery order, acceptance, merge gates, and resolving divergences.

• Conduct thorough reviews of generated code to ensure accuracy and maintainability.

• Manage specification drift, maintain blueprint coherence, and address regeneration risks and testing limitations.

• Differentiate between defects and accepted legacy behaviors, ensuring discrepancies are identified early.

• Manage the partner relationship by overseeing cadence, escalation, scope, estimates, quality, and evidence standards.

• Ensure Neumo is capable of building, deploying, operating, modifying, and extending the delivered system independently from the partner.

• Continuously enhance internal engineering capabilities throughout the delivery process.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation, including architecture, data models, decisions, divergences, and operational runbooks.

• Convert build status, risks, assumptions, and decisions into actionable communications for executives.

• Represent Neumo’s technical stance with partners, customers, and procurement.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in building and operating production software, with substantial time spent at the staff or principal level.

• In-depth expertise in agentic or AI-assisted software delivery at a production scale; experience in shipping systems this way is essential.

• Proven track record of owning the architecture for large, multi-team systems.

• Experience in directing external delivery partners, consultancies, or systems integrators.

• History of incremental legacy modernization, including the use of strangler patterns, coexistence strategies, live data migration, and cutovers with zero tolerance for loss.

• Extensive experience with relational databases.

• Proficiency in both .NET and modern web stack technologies.

• Outstanding written communication skills.

• Ability to discern acceptable divergences from issues that necessitate halting delivery, especially in financial calculations.

• Comfort operating with authority over an external team while lacking authority over internal colleagues.

• Demonstrated effectiveness within a remote, distributed organization.

• Experience in government technology, regtech, fintech, payments, or other regulated domains is preferred.

• Familiarity with financial calculations, payment allocations, interest accrual, or reconciliation systems is preferred.

• Experience in accessibility engineering to WCAG 2.1 AA standards is preferred.

• Knowledge of StateRAMP/GovRAMP, FedRAMP, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or IRS Publication 1075 is preferred.

• Experience in taking over and managing a system developed by others is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits and compensation package.

• Fully remote work arrangement.