Director of Software Engineering

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In this role, you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization that delivers secure, scalable, multi-tenant products—both internal and external facing. You’ll manage product engineering teams plus principal level ICs, set the technical and organizational direction, and raise the bar on architecture, delivery, and talent. You won’t code every day, but you will stay close to the work—leading critical design decisions, sizing, reviews, and technical spikes—while multiplying the impact of every engineer. You’ll leverage AI in both how we build and what we build to deliver real business value, with a pragmatic approach to build, buy, and partner for results.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead teams of software engineers (and provide technical expertise) in the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, complex software solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology, including agentic AI.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders, communicating trade-offs, timelines, and risks with clarity. Manage scope, meet milestones, and deliver results. Know when to be flexible and when to commit.

• Recruit, hire, and retain to grow the organization while maintaining a high talent bar and healthy team dynamics. Develop the team with career paths and clear leveling guidelines.

• Raise the bar for impact. Drive best practices in software development, including agile development, code reviews, testing methodologies, and deployment strategies. Accelerate the team with the implementation of AI in the software development lifecycle.

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and constructive feedback to engineers, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and impact.

• Lead the implementation of robust, efficient, and maintainable code using modern technologies such as AWS serverless offerings.

• Own vendor relationships and integration strategies. Manage engineering spend across cloud, tools, and vendors—balancing cost efficiency with speed and scalability.

• Keep up to date with the latest tools and best practices and guide the team on when and to use them.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years in software engineering with hands-on coding and progressive leadership; experience managing managers and principal level ICs.

• Experience building successful teams across geographies (including onshore and offshore). Demonstrated success in recruiting, hiring, and developing teams—establishing clear leveling standards, career paths, and feedback mechanisms.

• Proven delivery of multi-tenant, cloud native systems at scale (AWS preferred), including microservices/serverless and evented architectures.

• Strong technical judgment; able to lead architecture, sizing, and performance/security tradeoffs; comfortable getting hands-on for critical work.

• Expertise in modern delivery practices: CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability, and incident management.

• Experience operating within SOC 2 (or similar) expectations; partnering with Security to embed controls into software development lifecycle.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication—able to articulate strategy and trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, frameworks, and technologies.

• Flexibility to work from home while collaborating in person half the time.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering multi-agentic AI workflows to solve enterprise-level problems in secure, scalable ways leveraging technology like AWS Bedrock.

• Deep experience in software architecture, including integration with other enterprise systems.

• Professional services or accounting background.

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Certain states require us todisclosethe pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $191,300-$225,100. For Illinois residents, Washington residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $210,500-$247,600. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $220,100-$258,900. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location.Eligible employeesat certain levels canparticipatein a discretionary long-term financial incentive plan, subject to plan participation rules.

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, vision

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

• Flexible work arrangements

• 401K with Profit Sharing

• Wellness program

• Generous parental leave

• 11 paid holidays

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