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Director, Software Engineering

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full-time

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Origin:  • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSEC2GraphQLReactReact NativeRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

  • Provide strategic direction and technical leadership for Production Engineering and Foundation Software Engineering teams.
  • Develop and execute a forward-thinking product strategy aligned with Jobber’s long-term business goals.
  • Manage Engineering Managers and Senior Engineering Managers supporting growth and continuous improvement of 50+ Software Engineers.
  • Drive product quality, stability, and performance while protecting agility and maximising impact through scaling.
  • Amplify engineering excellence through best practices, mentorship, and a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Leadership Team peers to drive company strategy and advance critical company objectives.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as an organizational leader at the Director level or higher.
  • A strong track record of managing and developing people managers across multiple teams and disciplines.
  • Hands-on experience running agile organizations at scale, with a sense of urgency to deliver high-quality solutions to customer problems.
  • Experience developing and executing a strategy that balances feature development, infrastructure improvement, and ongoing software maintenance.
  • A demonstrated ability to balance customer value with business impact while managing a multi-million dollar budget.
  • A mindset that embraces AI and emerging technologies as opportunities to accelerate innovation and elevate team capabilities.
  • Experience building diverse, high-performing teams.
  • Familiarity using our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and/or React (React Native for mobile is a plus) in a production environment (nice to have).
  • Experience working with GraphQL, API Layer, and performance optimization (nice to have).
  • Foundational knowledge of AWS (e.g., Lambda, ECS, EC2) (nice to have).
  • Proven experience leading 5+ engineering teams, including managing other managers (nice to have).
  • Experience building software via leading LLM providers (nice to have).