Alignable

Software Engineer

• Leading the Engineering Organization
• You'll own the health, performance, and growth of our engineering team. This means building strong Engineering Managers, establishing clear career paths, running calibrations and performance cycles, and creating an environment where engineers do their best work. You'll directly manage 3 Engineering Managers and several senior individual contributors, with ~26 engineers in your organization overall.
• Setting Technical Direction
• You'll shape our technical strategy in partnership with senior engineers and cross-functional leaders. This includes making decisions about architecture evolution, AI/ML integration, platform scalability, and technical debt prioritization. You won't be writing code day-to-day, but you'll provide technical guidance through architecture reviews, design discussions, and mentoring senior engineers. Your technical judgment will help teams make the right trade-offs.
• Driving AI Integration
• We're integrating AI throughout our platform to bring AI-powered features to 10+ million small business owners. You'll champion AI adoption across the engineering org—ensuring teams have the skills, tools, and architectural patterns to ship AI-powered products effectively. You'll also drive AI-assisted development practices (AI coding tools, automated testing, workflow automation) to accelerate engineering velocity. Whether it's LLM-based features for customers or AI tools that help engineers ship faster, you'll guide the strategy and remove blockers.
• Driving Delivery and Operational Excellence
• You'll ensure we ship high-quality products on predictable timelines. This means optimizing how squads work together, establishing engineering metrics that matter, improving our incident response and reliability practices, and removing organizational friction that slows teams down.
• Partnering Cross-Functionally
• You'll be a key voice in product strategy, partnering with Product and Design leadership to balance business needs, user value, and technical sustainability. When the CEO wants to understand engineering capacity or a PM needs to make a build-vs-buy decision, you'll be the person in the room.
• Building for Scale
• As we grow, you'll evolve our engineering organization—hiring senior talent, establishing new squads, improving our technical interview process, and ensuring our org structure supports our product roadmap.

Director of Engineering