CarTrawler

Director of Engineering

CarTrawler

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dublin • Ireland

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Define and execute an engineering strategy aligned to business goals and platform ambition.
  • Lead architectural evolution toward API-first, modular, scalable services.
  • Balance near-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability and risk reduction.
  • Govern strategic technical initiatives including modernisation and architectural convergence.
  • Ensure high-quality, predictable delivery across multiple squads and domains.
  • Establish strong operating rhythms, planning discipline and measurable delivery health.
  • Remove cross-team blockers and optimise ways of working.
  • Own and evolve the engineering operating model with clear accountability and decision rights.
  • Steward enterprise architecture in partnership with Product and Infrastructure leadership.
  • Champion reliability, security-by-design, observability and operational resilience.
  • Embed interoperability, reusable services and API lifecycle standards.
  • Align engineering decisions with commercial and product outcomes.
  • Define and lead the GenAI engineering agenda across the platform.
  • Establish scalable AI patterns and production-ready operational controls.
  • Ensure responsible AI adoption including governance, privacy and risk management.
  • Drive developer productivity through modern tooling, CI/CD, automation and AI-assisted engineering.
  • Raise the bar on quality, craftsmanship and technical sustainability.
  • Lead and develop senior engineering leaders.
  • Shape organisation design, capability planning and succession.
  • Strengthen engineering culture, talent density and employer brand.
  • Foster an inclusive, accountable and continuously improving environment.
  • Operate as a senior leader within Product & Technology and across the enterprise.
  • Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, Security, Data and Commercial teams.
  • Communicate strategy, progress and risk clearly to executive stakeholders.
  • Engage externally with key partners and investors when required.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in software engineering, including 7+ years leading multiple engineering teams in product-led environments.
  • Proven experience delivering scalable, high-transaction platforms.
  • Strong architectural fluency across cloud-native systems, APIs and distributed architectures.
  • Experience leading organisational transformation and engineering modernisation.
  • Track record embedding modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, DevOps, observability, security-by-design).
  • Experience adopting AI-enabled engineering practices; bonus if you have taken GenAI capabilities to enterprise-scale production.
  • Strong commercial judgement and ability to balance investment, risk and business value.
  • Experience developing senior engineering leaders and building high-performing teams.
Benefits
  • Competitive pay and benefits, including a performance-based annual bonus, fully subsidised VHI health insurance and pension matching up to 4%.
  • Generous time off and flexible working, including 25 days’ annual leave, extra company days, monthly Friday Unplugged afternoons and the option to work abroad for up to 20 days a year.
  • Comprehensive wellbeing support, including access to health and mental health programmes (HeadsUp and EAP) and paid leave for marriage, volunteering and personal wellbeing including menstrual, menopause, and fertility leave.
  • Growth and recognition culture with development opportunities through training, coaching and study support plus programmes that celebrate individual and team achievements.
  • Everyday perks that make a difference - subsidised canteen (KC Peaches), on-site car parking, Bike to Work and TaxSaver schemes plus an active Sports & Social Club.
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringAPI-first architecturecloud-native systemsdistributed architecturesCI/CDDevOpsobservabilitysecurity-by-designAI-enabled engineering practicesGenAI capabilities
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational transformationdecision makinginclusive culture buildingtalent developmentrisk management