Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Director of Software Engineering at Progyny managing backend development for business initiatives. Leading a team with technical strategy and process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Software Engineering team, fostering professional growth and technical excellence.
- Provide career development, coaching, and regular feedback for direct reports.
- Evaluate existing solutions, projects, and infrastructure; recommend and implement enhancements for scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Collaborate with Program/Product Management and business stakeholders to deliver on key business initiatives.
- Engage with end-users, operational leaders, and subject matter experts to understand and translate operational goals into technical solutions.
- Oversee the execution, maintenance, and optimization of projects, applications, and pipelines to ensure continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Guide the team in debugging, tracing, and profiling code to maximize uptime and maintainability.
- Develop, document, and implement engineering processes and best practices.
- Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
- Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex challenges and urgent issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of Software and Quality engineering leadership experience.
- 3+ years of prior experience with Java and/or Python.
- Proven ability to develop and implement technical processes and long-term vision for engineering teams.
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines.
- Expertise in developing, troubleshooting, and optimizing RESTful API systems for performance, scalability, and security.
- Strong prioritization, communication, and ownership skills; ability to design for repeatability and scalability.
- Demonstrated flexibility to improve existing systems and innovate new capabilities.
- Experience working in an agile Scrum environment.
- Proficiency with PHP, shell scripting, Git, and remote version control services (e.g., GitHub).
- 5+ years with MySQL or similar relational databases.
- 3+ years with Docker and AWS (or similar cloud services).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. CodePipeline, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
Benefits
- Paid family and parental leave
- Preconception, fertility, and family building benefits (including egg freezing, IVF, and adoption support)
- Family and pet care fund
- Menopause and midlife care
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance options for employees and family
- Free in-person, virtual and text-based mental health and wellness support
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, personal days and summer flex time
- Company equity
- Bonus program
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Access to on-demand legal and financial advice
- Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally and a mentorship program
- Company social events to include annual volunteer day and donation matching
- Flex days (3 days a week in the office) and onsite meals and snacks for employees reporting into our NY office
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