Cube

Director of Engineering

Cube

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $220,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Manage and mentor our EMs and TPM, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Act as the primary operational partner to the CTO, taking full ownership of the engineering organization’s health and delivery.
  • Define and track the "meta-metrics" of the team.
  • Act as a high-level individual contributor for internal engineering tooling.
  • Design and ship the set of tools, AI workflows, and automated safeguards that allow our engineers to move with the speed and impact of a team triple that size.
  • Partner with our TPM, Product, and Customer Success to align the engineering roadmap with business outcomes, ensuring we are always working on the highest-leverage tasks.

Requirements

  • You have experience leading engineering teams (ideally 15-30+ people) through growth and evolution.
  • You have an insatiable need to understand how things work and, more importantly, how they could work better.
  • You are an active practitioner of AI-assisted development (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, LLMs) and have opinions on how to integrate these tools into a professional SDLC in an intentional manner.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • You have deep experience with distributed systems (Celery, Redis, MySQL) and know how to maintain system health while moving fast.
  • Demonstrated experience managing engineering organizations within SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA environments. You understand how to maintain a high-velocity shipping culture while meeting strict audit and security requirements.
Benefits
  • We provide 100% covered employee medical, dental, and vision insurance options, including FSA/HSA options plus free memberships to OneMedical, Teladoc, and Talkspace.
  • Our flexible paid vacation and sick/mental health time guidelines help you get the time and space you need.
  • We offer stock options to all full-time employees of Cube, as we want you to be connected to the success of the company.
  • We offer 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for the birthing parent.
  • We offer each Cuber a quarterly learning budget to spend on books, classes, or events that support your development.
  • You’ll be joining an experienced team of tech startup leaders who are eager to work with you and provide support and mentorship!
  • You’ll work for a company that our customers are truly excited about!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI-assisted developmentdistributed systemsCeleryRedisMySQLengineering toolingmeta-metricsSDLC
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcollaboration
Certifications
SOC 2 Type 2HIPAA