Director of Engineering
CoderPad
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and support multiple engineering teams, lead very senior engineers, ensuring consistent delivery, strong technical quality, and healthy team operations.
- Define and guide technical architecture and long-term system strategy across the teams within your scope and in collaboration with EMEA engineering leadership.
- Own and manage technical roadmaps jointly with the VP of Product, VP of Engineering and Director of Engineering in EMEA. This includes identifying and addressing technical debt and long-term system health.
- Partner closely with Product Management to align engineering strategy with product priorities and customer needs.
- Ensure teams have clear execution plans through effective backlog management, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Drive and protect team velocity: proactively identify blockers, work with product and tech leads to keep delivery cadence high, and treat speed as a first-class engineering value alongside quality.
- Make decisions with imperfect information, hold yourself and your teams accountable for outcomes over activity, and see work through to completion rather than handing it off
- Measure team effectiveness and continuously improve delivery processes, engineering practices, and team performance.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for senior engineering staff. Manage all hiring, onboarding, performance, and exits on your team.**
- Maintain visibility into system reliability and operational health, and participate in on-call rotations when needed to support operational awareness.
- Engage directly with customers often to understand their pain points, connect engineering work to real problems, and drive until solutions deliver real customer value.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant portion spent in technical leadership or management roles.
- Experience managing engineering teams and engineering managers. Experience in all parts of people management including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance reviews, difficult conversations when necessary.
- Proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams that deliver complex, reliable software systems.
- A passion for developer tooling and hands-on fluency with AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) – you use them daily in your own workflow and actively drive their adoption across your teams
- Experience owning technical strategy, architecture direction, and engineering roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive outcomes.
- Experience operating in fast-moving product organizations with iterative development and continuous delivery. Orientation towards standardization and having teams work effectively together.
- Experience supporting distributed or globally distributed engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of system reliability, operational excellence, and maintaining system health at scale.
Benefits
- Meaningful work with high impact for a well-loved product
- Competitive, market-rate salaries
- Stock options with a 4-year vesting schedule
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (90% covered for employees and dependents)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401K with profit sharing
- Unlimited paid time off with an expectation of taking 3 weeks annually in addition to 20 company holidays
- Remote-friendly environment with monthly WFH stipend
- Parental leave (primary: 16 weeks; secondary: 12 weeks)
- Short- and long-term disability and life insurance coverage
- Choice of laptop computer
- Internal mobility and growth opportunities
- And more…
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringtechnical leadershippeople managementtechnical strategyarchitecture directionengineering roadmapssystem reliabilityoperational excellenceiterative developmentcontinuous delivery
Soft Skills
team leadershipaccountabilitycommunicationcoachingperformance managementproblem-solvingcollaborationbacklog managementdecision-makingcustomer engagement