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Director, Software Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
116 days ago
Salary
$140K - $180K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Software Engineering
T S W Wordsmith LLC
• Your responsibilities will span technical leadership, team management and hands-on execution. • Set and drive technical strategy aligned with company objectives, balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and long term platform health. • Manage and develop a small team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development. • Remain hands on in the codebase, contributing to architecture decisions and implementing critical features and infrastructure improvements. • Own platform architecture and evolution, ensuring our systems are secure, performant, scalable, and maintainable. • Lead high impact initiatives, especially those involving complex technical tradeoffs, cross functional dependencies, or architectural change. • Champion a culture of accountability, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement across the engineering team.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building web-based applications, with strong, recent work in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Cloud Platforms (e.g. AWS, Heroku), and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Svelte, React, Vue).
- A proven track record of leveraging the latest and greatest (often AI) tools to improve the throughput and quality of your team’s work.
- Prior experience managing and developing engineers, ideally within a small, high ownership team.
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and integrations, including ETL or ELT workflows, data transformation and modeling.
- Experience in Edtech, working with learning platforms or AI engineering is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and lead architecture for complex systems.
- Deep knowledge of secure software development practices, including security compliance and auditing, performance tuning, and scalable multi-tenant systems.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills - able to influence cross-functional partners and explain complex ideas clearly.
Benefits
- Work from home flexibility: We’ve been remote first since inception.
- Growth and mentorship: Join a supportive, collaborative team with opportunities to grow in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Competitive benefits: Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, 401(k), and more!
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