Director, Engineering

What You'll Do

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large backend engineering organization, aligning engineering investments with business and product goals.
• Lead, 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.
• Help develop future engineering leaders and support organizational growth as the company continues to scale.

Backend & Technical Excellence

• Oversee the design and evolution of backend systems supporting user identity, integrations, activation, and data processing capabilities.
• Ensure systems support high-scale, low-latency, and highly available workloads.
• 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.