About the role

We’re looking for a hands-on Director of Engineering to work alongside the founder/CXOs and own engineering from architecture, platform development, customer solutions, delivery, and team building.

You’ll shape the technical direction, hire and develop the team, and establish the practices needed to scale. This role suits someone who wants to help build a company, take responsibility for outcomes, and grow with the business.

We're looking for someone who wants to join as a partner with an entrepreneurial mindset in building this together.

Who we’re looking for

An exceptional engineer who combines deep technical judgment with proven team leadership. You still write production code, review complex changes, and solve difficult problems and you know how to make the team around you more effective.

You bring two complementary strengths:
Platform thinking:
Design reusable, scalable capabilities across orchestration, integrations, deployment, observability, and data infrastructure.
Customer solutioning:
Understand enterprise workflows and constraints,



turn them into practical technical solutions, and identify what should become part of the shared platform.

What you’ll own
Architecture and scale:
Set the technical direction for the platform and customer solutions, balancing reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
Hands-on engineering:
Design and build critical components, review code, and resolve complex production issues. Expect substantial time on direct technical work.
Team building:
Hire, structure, and develop the engineering team, with transparent responsibilities, high standards, and meaningful ownership.
Engineering practices:
Establish effective planning, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and documentation.
Delivery:
Turn business priorities into realistic technical plans and dependable releases. Manage dependencies, technical debt, and delivery risks.
Customer engagement:
Lead technical discussi

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