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Senior Director, Software Development
Location
United States
Posted
60 days ago
Salary
$180K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Director, Software Development
Modern Campus
• Own delivery commitments across Connected Curriculum and associated product teams, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and operational readiness. • Translate product roadmap priorities into engineering plans, capacity models, and sequencing strategies in partnership with Product leadership. • Establish consistent expectations for planning, estimation, dependency management, and risk mitigation. • Provide clear and accurate delivery visibility to executive stakeholders, proactively surfacing risks and tradeoffs. • Ensure teams balance feature delivery with ongoing investment in reliability, scalability, and technical health. • Act as a senior technical leader, engaging deeply in architecture, system design, and cross-product technical decisions. • Contribute as a core member of the Architecture Council, helping define and evolve system-wide architectural direction. • Drive the design and development of foundational platform services and shared components that support Connected Curriculum and other Modern Campus products. • Ensure product architectures align with emerging platform standards, shared services, and long-term scalability goals. • Guide major technical decisions and tradeoffs, balancing speed of delivery with sustainability, reuse, and operational excellence. • Maintain accountability for technical health across all owned systems, including performance, security, scalability, and reduction of technical debt. • Lead modernization efforts across legacy systems, aligning them with platform-oriented architecture. • Drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices, including development harnesses, workflow automation, and engineering guardrails that improve delivery speed, quality, and scalability. • Guide the design and evolution of agentic SDLC patterns that enable teams to safely apply AI in design, implementation, testing, review, documentation, and operational workflows. • Ensure AI-enabled development practices align with platform architecture, engineering standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability. • Lead and develop engineering leadership across multiple teams and product areas, setting expectations for delivery ownership, technical leadership, and team health. • Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning across assigned engineering teams. • Build and retain high-performing organizations with strong technical depth and leadership capability. • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence aligned with Modern Campus values. • Scale engineering leadership and execution across multiple product lines as scope expands beyond Connected Curriculum. Apply consistent standards for delivery discipline, technical stewardship, and organizational health across all product engineering groups. Partner with Product leadership as scope expands to ensure engineering capacity, architecture, and delivery models scale effectively.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating complex, customer-facing SaaS platforms.
- 6+ years in engineering leadership roles with accountability for multiple teams or product areas.
- Proven ownership of delivery outcomes across a portfolio of work.
- Deep technical fluency and the ability to engage at a detailed level in architecture, system design, and technical tradeoff discussions.
- Strong working knowledge of modern web application stacks, including: Frontend: React, TypeScript, modern frontend architectures Backend: Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs Data: Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) Cloud: AWS, containerized and CI/CD-based environments
- Experience designing or evolving platform-oriented architectures and shared services.
- Experience improving engineering effectiveness through AI-assisted development practices, workflow automation, or related SDLC innovation.
- Strong understanding of how to apply AI within the software development lifecycle in ways that preserve quality, security, maintainability, and team accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product leadership and influence across organizational boundaries.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate technical risks and tradeoffs to executive audiences.
Benefits
- Remote first workplace!
- Rewards and recognition programs
- Learning and development opportunities
- The ability to make a difference every day for universities trying to grow and students trying to learn!
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