Director of Software Engineering

Job Details

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• Own the vision, strategy, and execution for the software engineering function; align technical roadmaps with company objectives and OKRs
• Partner with the CTO and Product leadership to shape the technology roadmap and sequence delivery priorities
• Lead architecture decisions across modern cloud-based applications — .NET/C# backends, React/TypeScript frontends, RESTful and event-driven services, Power Platform, and Azure infrastructure
• Establish and enforce engineering standards: code quality, security, automated testing, and documentation
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of full-time engineers and contractors; manage performance and develop future technical leaders
• Own end-to-end delivery across agile teams — sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and capacity planning — for predictable, high-quality releases
• Partner with DevOps on Azure environments, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production readiness
• Balance new feature delivery against reliability, performance, and technical-debt reduction
• Own engineering operational metrics (reliability, performance, security) and drive continuous improvement
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, Operations, and Customer Success to translate priorities into execution
• Use AI development tools daily to accelerate design, code review, planning, and documentation, while operating as the experienced human in the loop and setting responsible-use guardrails for the team
• Deliver written weekly leadership updates and lead a monthly engineering KPI review

Qualifications (Needed)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

• Minimum 10+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 3–5 years leading or managing engineering teams
• Strong expertise in .NET / C#, including ASP.NET Core and Web APIs
• Strong experience with modern frontend development using React and TypeScript
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, authentication, authorization, and security best practices
• Experience architecting scalable systems with relational databases (SQL Server) and data modeling
• Experience delivering software in cloud environments — Azure preferred
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Proven ability to build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to accelerate engineering work, with the judgment to use them responsibly
• Comfort operating in a dynamic, high-growth, PE-backed environment

Nice-to-have: B2B SaaS / logistics / operations-tech background · Azure App Services, Functions, Service Bus · microservices & modular monolith architectures · Power Platform integration with custom code

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