Senior Director of Engineering
Kodiak Solutions
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Plan and execute multiple impactful projects spread across multiple teams
- Maintain hands-on technical expertise, engaging with technical implementation details to effectively represent team needs in architectural discussions to ensure decisions are being made that align with practical development realities
- Serve as a technical bridge between teams and architecture leveraging deep technical knowledge and coding experience
- Take end-to-end ownership of complex initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains
- Set technical vision and strategy for major engineering initiatives, ensuring scalability, security, and healthcare compliance (HIPAA, HL7, FHIR)
- Drive strategic decision-making across the organization, balancing technical depth with business impact
- Partner with product and business leaders to shape engineering strategy as a key voice in defining customer value
- Define, manage, and maintain meaningful metrics across teams, leveraging them to help with decision making that directly drive results
- Lead and develop engineering managers and senior ICs, building leadership capabilities across the organization
- Design organizational structures that optimize current execution and future growth
- Attract, hire, and retain diverse talent while fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous learning
- Serve as a calming influence during change and uncertainty, coaching teams through organizational complexity
- Champion bold approaches and create environments where teams can experiment, learn, and own outcomes
- Lead cross-functional collaboration, aligning engineering with product, design, and business teams
- Establish scalable processes that enable transparency, efficiency, and continuous improvement
- Communicate with clarity across all organizational levels, from technical teams to executive leadership
- Drive operational excellence while ensuring sustainable execution and team well-being
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with increasing leadership responsibilities
- Minimum 5 years managing engineering teams, with experience leading managers
- Proven track record scaling engineering organizations and managing 40+ engineers
- Direct experience in regulated industries, preferably healthcare software solutions
- History of hands-on coding and system design, with ability to dive deep into technical details
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and developing leadership capabilities
- Strong business acumen with understanding of how engineering decisions impact company strategy.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringsystem designcodingmetrics managementscalabilitysecurityHIPAAHL7FHIRengineering strategy
Soft skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationmentoringcoachingorganizational designpsychological safetycontinuous learningstrategic decision-makingchange management