Hybrid Director of Engineering

at PlanHub

• Job title: Director of Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, MySQL, Postgres, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

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.