Director of Engineering

Are you a hands-on engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of technology, strategy, and people leadership?

We're seeking a Director of Engineering to lead globally distributed engineering teams responsible for building and scaling high-volume, cloud-native applications. This is an exceptional opportunity for a technical leader who enjoys solving complex architectural challenges, mentoring engineers, and partnering with business stakeholders to drive innovation and product delivery.

What You'll Do

As Director of Engineering, you'll lead a team of talented engineers across North America and India while shaping the technical direction of our products and platforms.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 20-30+ software engineers across multiple regions and time zones.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop senior engineers and engineering managers while building a strong talent pipeline.

Technical Leadership

• Own architecture and system design decisions across the technology stack.
• Drive the evolution of large-scale distributed systems running on AWS.
• Provide technical guidance and stay close enough to the codebase to challenge assumptions, mentor engineers, and make sound architectural decisions.
• Lead modernization initiatives, including cloud-native transformations and legacy application modernization.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product, Business, and Executive stakeholders to align engineering initiatives with strategic objectives.
• Translate business priorities into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Influence organizational technology strategy and engineering best practices.

Delivery & Execution

• Own successful delivery of product and platform roadmaps.
• Improve engineering efficiency through modern development practices, tooling, automation, and Agile delivery methods.
• Remove organizational impediments and enable teams to execute effectively.
• Champion software craftsmanship, testing strategies, code quality, and operational excellence.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, incident management, and system reliability.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered development tools and workflows that improve engineering productivity and quality.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience managing teams of 20+ professionals.
• Proven experience hiring, mentoring, developing, and managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong technical background in: Java, Angular, React, or Vue.js, API design and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multi-region AWS deployments.
• Experience leading platform modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Prior experience in fast-growing SaaS, travel technology, hospitality technology, fintech, or enterprise software environments.

Technical Expertise

You should possess deep expertise in: Monolithic and Microservices architectures, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud-native application development, Scalability, resiliency, and reliability engineering, Modern API design patterns, System design trade-offs and architectural decision-making

Database Technologies

Experience working with: Oracle, PostgreSQL, Other relational database technologies. Including: Data modeling and schema design, Query optimization, Performance tuning

As well as NoSQL technologies such as: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and understanding when to leverage each platform effectively.

Strong production experience with AWS services, including: EC2, ECS / EKS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Terraform

You should have a track record designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native systems at scale.

AI-Driven Software Development

We are looking for a leader who actively leverages AI throughout the software development lifecycle, including:

• Coding assistants
• AI-powered code reviews
• Agentic workflows
• Developer productivity platforms

You should be able to demonstrate measurable ways AI has improved velocity, quality, and engineering outcomes within your teams.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Why This Opportunity?

This role is ideal for a leader who wants to remain technically credible while influencing engineering strategy, architecture, culture, and organizational growth. You'll have the opportunity to lead distributed teams, solve complex technical