Director, software engineering

Summary:

The Director, Software Engineering will lead our dynamic engineering teams, ensuring the technical and architectural vision aligns with our goals. Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, you'll collaborate closely with Product Management and Design to craft and execute our technological roadmaps.

Essential Job Functions:

• Technical Leadership: Shape the technical vision while promoting outstanding architectural decisions.
• Mentorship: Foster growth within your teams, guiding engineers to reach and exceed their potential.
• Recruitment: Collaborate with our talent team to onboard diverse, top-tier engineering talent.
• Transformation: Oversee a robust engineering transformation program tailored for designated business areas.
• Innovation: Identify bottlenecks, brainstorm automation opportunities, and co-design solutions to enhance engineering efficiency across the platform.
• Collaboration: Work with multiple departments, from IT Services to QA, ensuring seamless integration and the realization of a unified engineering vision.
• Governance: Establish and enforce IT policies related to software engineering, ensuring compliance and high standards.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Other Related Duties:

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position does have direct reports. Oversee and nurture the Engineering transformation staff, from reporting analysts and automation engineers to DevOps experts. Responsibilities encompass the full employee lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and day-to-day management.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Ten (10) + years’ experience in building and deploying enterprise and SaaS products, including experience as a software engineering team leader.
• Expertise in cloud-based systems, CI/CD, diverse programming languages, and cloud platforms.
• Strong consumer-facing product development background.
• Proven experience in recruiting and scaling high-performance teams.
• Data-driven decision-making capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with engineering transformation and a suite of modern testing and CI/CD tools.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced degrees (CS, MBA), preferred.
• Experience in the Fintech sector, preferred.
• Start-up leadership background, preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

None required.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is normally performed in a typical interior office work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Xpanse is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Americans with Disabilities Act:

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential job functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation. Applicants as well as employees are encouraged to meet with Human Resources as the organization shall review reasonable accommodations on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.

Job Responsibilities:

The statements reflect the general duties and responsibilities considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as an all-inclusive list of all the work requirements of the position. Xpanse may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.