Director Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee multiple teams through managers: accountable for performance, operations, and outcomes. Ensure growth at every level and cultivate a future bench of leaders.
• Drive vision and strategy for systems/products across mobile foundation and core services. Own org-level OKR(s). Facilitate architectural decisions in collaboration with Principal engineers.
• Own significant cross-functional initiatives end-to-end: driving priorities through organizational dependencies, removing systemic bottlenecks, and ensuring nothing stalls waiting for someone else to act.
• Set technical direction across both mobile foundation (iOS/Android) and core services (edge, config), ensuring shared platform investments such as observability, release safety, and developer tooling are prioritized coherently across stacks.
• Build and maintain relationships across organizations and external partners, influencing business direction and ensuring engineering teams have the resources needed to deliver.
• Shape and operationalize engineering strategy: establishing performance standards, developing organizational policies, and embedding a culture of ownership across teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience building consumer-scale applications, with deep expertise in either native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin, Apple/Android frameworks) or modern web platforms (TypeScript/Node.js, tooling, edge/CDN systems) with demonstrated fluency partnering with leaders in the other. Expertise in both is preferred.
• 4+ years of experience leading engineering managers and building high-performing organizations across multiple teams.
• Experience owning platform services that other engineering teams depend on such as SDKs, component libraries, configuration, CI/CD systems, or developer portals.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across Product, Design, and business leadership to define and drive a roadmap that balances business objectives with long-term engineering health.
• Effective collaboration and communication skills, able to discuss technical topics clearly and engage in productive technical discussions.
• Track record of identifying and removing systemic organizational bottlenecks and championing engineering standards and best practices across multiple teams.
• Experience developing and implementing operational policies and engineering performance standards at an organizational scale.
• High emotional intelligence, experience maintaining composure under high-pressure situations and meeting tight deadlines.
• Strong project management skills, seeing projects through from inception to completion.