Director, Engineering

What You'll Do

Leverage your leadership skills to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, ensuring engineering investments align with business and product goals.

Mentor and grow multiple engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Drive technical decision-making and establish standards for architecture, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.

Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, Product, and Data teams to improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.

Champion best practices in software development, distributed systems design, and engineering excellence.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with Product, Revenue, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technical priorities with business objectives.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization and represent engineering in strategic initiatives.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Execution & Delivery:

• Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and scalability.
• Use metrics to evaluate reliability, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 8+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a high-scale SaaS, infrastructure, or data-intensive environment.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, and large-scale backend services.
• Track record of developing engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in AdTech, MarTech, identity platforms, data platforms, or real-time systems is a strong asset but not required.