Director Software Engineering
Full TimeRemote
Location
United States
Posted
19 hours ago
Salary
Not specified
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Job Description
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Role Description
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead multiple teams and increase the rate of meaningful, customer-visible product outcomes. This leader will manage engineering managers and senior technical leaders, drive milestone-based execution, and ensure teams deliver predictable, business-impacting results. Success in this role is measured by shipped outcomes, improved delivery velocity, and stronger cross-functional alignment.
- Driving predictable, milestone-based delivery of customer-visible outcomes across your teams
- Removing the platform, process, and legacy friction that slows teams down
- Using data to improve delivery effectiveness and make sound decisions under ambiguity
- Maintaining cost discipline without sacrificing reliability or velocity
- Making architectural and platform decisions that simplify systems and accelerate delivery over time
- Bringing strong enough technical depth to evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and guide Staff+ engineers on complex problems
- Establish standards, governance, and ROI targets for AI-assisted engineering tools
- Managing and developing 4-6 engineering managers and staff engineers with clear accountability for outcomes
- Building leadership depth among Staff+ engineers who can drive cross-team impact
- Setting high performance standards and addressing underperformance directly and fairly
- Building and sustaining a culture of psychological safety, direct feedback, and high accountability
- Owning engineering vendor relationships and performance
- Aligning engineering delivery with measurable business outcomes
- Communicating trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Partnering with cross-functional leaders to define strategic priorities and evaluate multi-quarter roadmaps
Qualifications
- Experience leading engineering organizations through multiple phases of growth, scale, or transformation
- Experience managing engineering managers or leading multiple teams with distributed ownership
- Experience overseeing 15+ engineers across multiple teams
- Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong architectural and systems design fluency
- Demonstrated ability to raise performance standards within teams
- Experience balancing speed with long-term technical quality
Requirements
- Experience leading platform migrations or large-scale refactors
- Experience in SaaS or marketplace environments
- Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering tooling
Benefits
- Healthy living - medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, disability, life, wellness & fitness programs
- Future living - 401(k) match, performance bonuses, education assistance, learning & development
- Enjoy living - generous paid time off, parental leave, flexible summer hours, social & giving events
Job Requirements
- Experience leading engineering organizations through multiple phases of growth, scale, or transformation
- Experience managing engineering managers or leading multiple teams with distributed ownership
- Experience overseeing 15+ engineers across multiple teams
- Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong architectural and systems design fluency
- Demonstrated ability to raise performance standards within teams
- Experience balancing speed with long-term technical quality
- Experience leading platform migrations or large-scale refactors
- Experience in SaaS or marketplace environments
- Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering tooling
Benefits
- Healthy living - medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, disability, life, wellness & fitness programs
- Future living - 401(k) match, performance bonuses, education assistance, learning & development
- Enjoy living - generous paid time off, parental leave, flexible summer hours, social & giving events