Director of Engineering

Accountabilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a global, fully remote engineering organization, including engineering managers and software engineers, while fostering a culture of accountability, excellence, and psychological safety.


• Define and optimize engineering organizational design, ensuring effective team structures, clear career progression paths, and strong succession planning.


• Partner closely with product leadership to align engineering execution with product strategy, ensuring cross-functional teams are focused on customer outcomes.


• Oversee architectural integrity, scalability, security, and performance of high-volume distributed systems supporting global-scale operations.


• Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery, ensuring sustainable system evolution and cost-efficient infrastructure.


• Establish and track engineering performance metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE) to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery efficiency.


• Lead the adoption of AI-powered engineering tools and automation across the SDLC to improve developer productivity and reduce operational friction.


• Ensure strong compliance, data privacy, and security practices across all engineering processes and systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including at least 5+ years in leadership roles managing engineering managers in SaaS, Ad Tech, or high-scale distributed systems environments.


• Proven experience scaling and leading large, fully remote, globally distributed engineering teams.


• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure design.


• Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs between speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability.


• Strong metrics-driven mindset with hands-on experience using frameworks such as DORA or SPACE to improve engineering performance.


• Experience driving engineering transformation initiatives, including automation and process optimization.


• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a practical understanding of their application in engineering workflows.


• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical and business teams.

Benefits

• Fully remote work with global flexibility and autonomy over your schedule.


• Opportunity to lead and scale a global engineering organization at high impact and high scale.


• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities, including growth support and training resources.


• High-impact leadership role with direct influence on engineering strategy and product outcomes.


• Culture focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and innovation.


• Opportunity to drive AI adoption across engineering workflows and shape modern development practices.

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