Senior Director of Engineering

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Director of Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams building scalable, reliable, and high-quality software platforms and products.

In this role, you will define technical strategy and architecture across the engineering organization, develop engineering managers and their teams, and partner closely with senior Product, Design, and business leaders to deliver impactful products at scale.

You will play a key role in shaping engineering culture, driving operational excellence, making critical architectural decisions, and building a high-performing engineering organization aligned with long-term business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

- Technical Strategy & Architecture: Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment with broader business and engineering objectives.

- Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop Engineering Managers and their teams, fostering accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with senior Product, Design, and business stakeholders to translate business goals into technical strategies and execution plans.

- Engineering Excellence: Drive best practices across software development, code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational reliability.

- Architectural Decision-Making: Lead build-versus-buy decisions and balance scalability, development speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

- Organization Building: Recruit, develop, and retain engineering leaders and high-performing technical talent while building a strong leadership pipeline.

- Performance & Delivery: Establish and track engineering metrics covering delivery velocity, system reliability, team health, and engineering productivity.

- Process Improvement: Identify and eliminate technical and organizational bottlenecks affecting engineering execution and product delivery.

- Executive Communication: Represent engineering in company-wide planning and leadership discussions, communicating technical trade-offs and business impact effectively.

- Organizational Strategy: Contribute to engineering organization design, workforce planning, hiring strategy, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

- 15+ years of overall software engineering experience.

- 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing Engineering Managers across multiple teams.

- Proven experience building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations in fast-paced environments.

- Strong technical foundation with the ability to evaluate architecture and design decisions across complex, full-stack software systems.

- Experience defining and executing technical roadmaps across multiple engineering teams.

- Demonstrated success partnering with senior Product and cross-functional leaders to deliver complex initiatives end-to-end.

- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.

- Experience with organizational design, leadership development, hiring, and performance management.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working in B2B or B2B2C product environments.

- Experience in regulated, high-trust, or high-scale environments.