Hybrid Director of Engineering

Posted 3 months ago

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About the role

  • Director of Engineering at PlanHub overseeing SaaS platform execution and engineering team management. Driving product delivery, modernization initiatives, and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the planning and delivery of product and engineering roadmaps, ensuring proper resourcing and delivery on commitments.
  • Implement and evolve metrics-driven practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and operational efficiency.
  • Ensure adherence to secure coding, scalable design, and performance best practices across the platform.
  • Oversee architectural reviews and design quality across projects—ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
  • Engage in code reviews, architectural evaluations, and design sessions.
  • Support adoption of AI/ML components and modern platform technologies.
  • Manage and mentor Engineering Managers and senior ICs, developing their technical and leadership capabilities.
  • Foster a high-performance culture centered on ownership, accountability, and excellence.
  • Promote continuous improvement via structured retrospectives, process improvements, and feedback loops.
  • Lead modernization initiatives including re-architecture, service decomposition, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps automation.
  • Drive adoption of AWS-native services (e.g., Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, etc.).
  • Champion cloud-native engineering, secure development, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
  • Act as a senior counterpart to Product Management, Customer Success, Support, and Sales Engineering.
  • Participate in quarterly and sprint planning to align engineering priorities with business outcomes.
  • Represent Engineering in executive discussions around OKRs, tech debt, innovation, and delivery health.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership (Director or Senior EM).
  • Proven experience in SaaS platform development and delivery.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage managers and senior ICs in distributed teams.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience with OLTP databases (ideally Aurora/MySQL or Postgres).
  • Hands-on technical background: ability to review code, critique architectures, and guide design choices.
  • Expertise in implementing and scaling metrics-driven SDLC processes.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident management.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML product integration and collaboration with Data Science teams.
  • Deep commitment to security best practices, including secure SDLC, secrets management, and access controls.
  • Driver mindset with bias for action and ownership.
  • Excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to operate with minimal supervision while aligning to executive goals.
  • Comfortable challenging the status quo, proposing improvements, and executing change.
  • Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

  • An awesome culture where you will be empowered, make an impact, and learn a ton.
  • Flexible time-off policy.
  • An excellent benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k)/RRSP plan with company match.

Job title

Director of Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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