We're seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to join our leadership team and report directly to our Co-Founder/CTO, Scott Rogers. This is a critical management-focused role where you'll lead our entire development team, recruit and ramp new engineers, and scale processes in order to help take the department to the next level.
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team across all functions (backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, QA)
- Recruit, onboard, and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Conduct regular 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and provide coaching to develop future leaders
- Product Development & Execution
- Partner closely with Product leadership to translate the product roadmap into engineering deliverables
- Own sprint planning, resource allocation, and delivery timelines across all engineering initiatives
- Ensure predictable, reliable product releases with minimal bugs and strong quality assurance
- Drive alignment between engineering capacity and product priorities
- Engineering Excellence & Quality
- Establish and enforce code quality standards, testing practices, and peer review processes
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and development workflows that enable rapid, safe deployments
- Build quality assurance processes, including automated testing, code coverage, and monitoring
- Create technical documentation standards and knowledge-sharing practices
- Foster engineering best practices around system design, security, and performance optimization
- Technical Strategy & Operations
- Collaborate with Lead Developer on technical vision and long-term technology strategy
- Make build vs. buy decisions and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools
- Oversee infrastructure planning, capacity management, and cloud optimization
- Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance meet SLA commitments
- Manage engineering budget and resource planning
- Implement metrics and KPIs to measure team productivity, quality, and velocity
Requirements
Qualifications:
- 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in engineering leadership roles (Manager or Director level)
- Proven track record of scaling engineering teams from 5-10 to 20-50+ engineers
- Experience managing managers and building organizational structures
- Demonstrated success delivering complex SaaS products in fast-paced startup environments
- Strong background in modern web app development and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience implementing engineering processes, standards, and best practices from the ground up
- Track record of successful collaboration with Product teams to execute roadmaps
- Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities
- Very effective in a remote work environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience at a Series A or Series B SaaS company during hypergrowth (2-5x growth)
- Hands-on technical background with the ability to review architecture and code when needed
- Experience with modern tech stacks (React, Node.js, Python, Go, microservices, etc.)
- Experience with distributed teams or remote-first engineering cultures
- History of successful technical hiring and building talent pipelines
Benefits
Benefits: 100% remote w/ no office mandate | Unlimited PTO | 22 official company holidays | Health care | Life insurance | Stock options | Amazing colleagues | Energetic culture that is positive and celebrates together | Inspiring mission & software product | Ability to grow your career by being early in a fast-growing tech startup
