Director of Software Engineering
About the role
You'll own the technical vision for Ramsey Connect, an AI‑powered pro directory that maps Ramsey's principles to vetted pros across the Trusted ecosystem, connecting the millions of people living the Ramsey plan with the professionals who help them execute it. As the engineering leader for a small, high‑velocity squad, you'll stand beside the Senior Director of Product as a true partner and work directly with executive leadership to set product direction and the technical strategy to get there. This is a leadership role: you'll own hiring, growth, and the health of the engineering team, and you'll be the person the product leader turns to when something breaks, something's impossible, or something's about to ship that shouldn't. You'll stay hands‑on, writing code yourself when it helps, while AI‑augmented development, already central to how this team builds, does a real share of the implementation. You'll shape how the team puts that leverage to work, calibrating where AI can move fast and where a careful human hand still matters most. The position is based at Ramsey Solutions Headquarters in Franklin, TN (on‑site) with relocation assistance available and flexible schedules.
Responsibilities
- Own hiring, growth, and health of the engineering team.
- Partner with product leadership to set product direction and technical strategy.
- Stay hands‑on writing code when needed.
- Guide AI‑augmented development workflow, deciding where AI can move fast and where human oversight is required.
- Scope epics with product and design, providing technical answers before team commits.
- Translate product strategy into architecture decisions on design systems, routing, and backend data models.
- Build and grow the engineering team, setting standards for hiring, code quality, and technical debt.
- Evolve AI‑augmented development tooling and practices so agents handle micro work while engineers focus on macro.
- Guard the design system and ensure routing, backend, and data architecture scale with product and team growth.
- Decide when to build custom solutions versus using existing components.
Qualifications
- Led engineering on a consumer‑facing web product through a critical growth stage (MVP to scale, platform shift, or both).
- Progressive software engineering experience with prior team leadership at director level or as de facto engineering owner.
- Comfortable writing code regularly and presenting technical strategy to executive leadership.
- Genuinely excited about AI‑augmented development as a productivity multiplier, with informed opinions on tools like Claude Code.
- Able to partner with product leaders as a peer, fluent in both business and engineering, knowing when to push back and when to defer.
- Systems thinker who understands how design system or architecture decisions affect future possibilities.
- Experience building at scale with Vue.js, React, or Angular, and proficiency in backend languages such as Kotlin, Java, or similar (preferred).
Skills
- Vue.js, React, Angular
- Kotlin, Java (or similar backend languages)
- AI‑augmented development tooling
- Technical leadership and team building
- Architecture and design systems
- Strategic partnership with product
Benefits
- Health insurance (includes plans eligible for an HSA—with a company match up to $500!)
- 401(k) retirement plan with 4% match/company contribution
- Annual wellness, counseling and grocery membership reimbursement
- On‑campus cafe with subsidized pricing for breakfast, lunch and coffee bar
- Dependent care FSA
- Cultural activities: weekly devotional, leadership development courses, Battle of the Bands, and one epic Christmas party
Pay
$116,500‑$200,000 per year* + profit sharing + benefits (range depends on skill level and overall experience)