Director, Software Engineering & Integration
What We Need
The Director – Software Engineering & Integration role requires:
- Minimum 12 years in software engineering, with 6+ years in leadership roles
- Experience scaling enterprise-grade digital platforms
- Strong expertise in: Microservices and API-first design, Event-driven architectures, Messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent), Modern Java-based backend frameworks (Spring preferred), Modern web application development frameworks
- Experience leading distributed engineering organizations (US + offshore/GCC)
- Strong balance of architectural depth and delivery accountability
- Executive presence with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive structured decisions in evolving environments
- Collaborative mindset with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively
- Bias toward scalable, long-term solutions over short-term fixes
- Comfortable operating across time zones and cultures (US + GCC)
- High accountability for outcomes, not just activity
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Background in supply chain, logistics, or operational platforms
- Experience working with or building around Order Management Systems (OMS)
- Exposure to warehouse, transportation, or fulfillment systems
- Experience in cloud-native environments (GCP preferred)
What We Do
Exol is pioneering warehousing-as-a-service, offering outsourced warehousing operations, and specializing in automated warehousing solutions. Our focus is on the efficient movement of goods in cases and pallets across all sectors, such as wholesale, retail, and general merchandising.
What You’ll Do
Platform & Application Engineering Leadership: Lead the development of scalable digital applications, including: Backend microservices and APIs, Event-driven service components, User-facing web applications and operational interfaces. Ensure cohesive design between service layers and application layers, promote clean API contracts and separation of concerns between systems, and drive consistent engineering standards across application and service codebases.
Architecture & Event-Driven Systems: Guide architecture for: Microservices and API-first platforms, Event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows, Multi-tenant, scalable service environments. Provide technical leadership for messaging and middleware solutions, including: Google Pub/Sub (preferred), Kafka and related ecosystems, JMS-based messaging platforms. Define standards for event contracts, schema versioning, retry logic, and failure handling.
Integration Engineering: Own engineering direction for: Internal service integrations, External partner APIs, EDI and system-to-system exchanges. Establish reusable integration frameworks and shared service components. Ensure secure, monitored, and version-controlled integration endpoints.
Application & Interface Development: Oversee development of modern web applications and platform interfaces. Ensure applications are: Role-based and multi-tenant aware, Performance-optimized and scalable, Consistent in user interaction patterns. Encourage engineering best practices around frontend architecture, testing, and maintainability.
Performance, Quality & Observability: Drive performance engineering practices across service and application layers. Promote profiling, diagnostics, and runtime monitoring standards. Partner with Cloud and DevOps teams to ensure observability is embedded into the software lifecycle.
Delivery & Engineering Governance: Translate product roadmaps into structured engineering plans. Ensure sprint discipline, backlog alignment, and predictable release cycles. Conduct architecture and production-readiness reviews. Maintain strong coordination between US leadership and GCC execution teams. Manage contractor and partner engineering performance.
Why this role matters at Exol
This role ensures that Exol's digital platform delivers cohesive, scalable full-stack solutions and sets the engineering tone. Aligning leaders on approach, maintaining disciplined engineering practices across geographies, and enabling scaling without chaos support complex integrations typical of supply chain environments. Evolving without architectural rework as the organization scales supports EXOL's long-term growth.
About Exol
Exol provides flexible and scalable outsourced warehouse services to meet the dynamic needs of the modern supply chain. We operate state-of-the-art distribution centers, allowing you to focus on your business while we handle the complexities of warehouse operations.