Director, Engineering

Goodwin

Director of Engineering leading a high-performing team of engineers at Goodwin, driving technical vision for AI-enabled systems and ensuring architectural integrity. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams in a dynamic, global environment.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeBoston • California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $225,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide direct, empathetic, and growth-oriented leadership to an expanding engineering organization.
Attract, mentor, and retain top-tier talent while fostering a high-accountability, inclusive, and collaborative team culture.
Define the technical roadmap, engineering standards, and architectural blueprints for AI-enabled systems and backend services.
Ensure all solutions are scalable, maintainable, resilient, and seamlessly aligned with enterprise architecture.
Oversee the lifecycle design, rapid development, and production deployment of AI-driven applications and full-stack services, ensuring robust integration between modern AI frameworks and core backend infrastructure.
Champion rigorous development practices—including advanced CI/CD pipelines, robust automated testing, thorough code reviews, and comprehensive operational readiness—to guarantee the highest standards of code quality and system reliability.
Establish, track, and optimize key engineering metrics (e.g., DORA metrics, system latency, model inference performance, and infrastructure cost efficiency) to drive continuous operational improvement.
Supervise agile resource allocation, sprint prioritization, and capacity planning across multiple cross-functional initiatives to balance velocity with engineering health.
Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure all AI system deployments adhere to stringent corporate policies, security protocols, data privacy standards, and evolving regulatory requirements.
Act as a strategic liaison between engineering, product management, and business stakeholders to translate organizational vision into executable technical roadmaps.
Drive internal innovation by spearheading engineering guilds or communities of practice focused on emerging AI paradigms, agentic workflows, and modern backend architectures.
Partner with recruiting to build a highly competitive hiring pipeline, design technical evaluation frameworks, and lead onboarding strategies for incoming engineering talent.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep, hands-on understanding of modern AI system architectures, LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, secure API design, and distributed full-stack application development.
A tracking record of scaling engineering teams and developing technical leaders (Managers and Principal/Staff Engineers) within fast-paced environments.
Exceptional ability to translate ambiguous, high-level business requirements into structured, phased, and executable engineering sprints.
Outstanding communication skills, with the proven ability to articulate complex technical architectures to non-technical executive stakeholders and align diverse teams toward a unified technical vision.
Typically requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, alongside 8+ years of progressive engineering experience, with 3+ years in a dedicated engineering management or leadership capacity.
Occasional travel.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, and vision insurance
Life and disability insurance
Retirement & Savings Plan
Emergency back-up child and adult care
Paid vacation, sick time off, and holidays
Professional development and career advancement opportunities
Employee recognition and reward programs
Employee wellness and assistance programs
Employee discounts and perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI system architecturesLLM orchestration frameworksLangChainLlamaIndexvector databasessecure API designdistributed full-stack application developmentCI/CD pipelinesautomated testingcode reviews

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic liaisonproblem-solvingorganizational vision alignmentteam culture fosteringcapacity planningoperational improvement

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Engineering