Director of Engineering
PactFi
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $220,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own end-to-end delivery of critical product initiatives across multiple teams
- Drive predictable execution as the organization scales in size and complexity
- Introduce the right level of structure without slowing teams down
- Balance speed, scope, and quality in a fast-moving environment
- Build and evolve team structures as we grow from Series A into later stages
- Hire, develop, and lead Engineering Managers and engineers
- Establish clear ownership boundaries, accountability, and team autonomy
- Coach emerging leaders and help level up management across the org
- Evolve engineering processes from early-stage to scalable
- Introduce delivery metrics (predictability, cycle time, throughput)
- Ensure strong engineering fundamentals: testing, reliability, production readiness
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve velocity and quality through AI workflows
- Establish best practices for safe, effective AI usage
- Evaluate and integrate tools based on measurable impact
- Work closely with Product and Design to translate priorities into plans
- Bring clarity and structure to roadmap planning
- Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and progress clearly
- Partner with senior technical leadership on architecture and platform
- Ensure teams adopt shared infrastructure effectively
- Balance near-term delivery with long-term scalability
Requirements
- 8+ years software engineering
- 3+ years leadership (including managing managers)
- Proven track record in high-growth environments
- Experience scaling an engineering org from Series A through growth
- Experience growing from few teams to multiple teams/org layers
- Ability to introduce structure without over-engineering
- Experience transitioning to distributed ownership
- Strong operator with consistent delivery
- Experience building teams, not just inheriting
- Strong judgment on process vs speed
- Ability to manage increasing complexity
- Experience integrating tools that measurably improve productivity
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted development tools in production
- Ability to evaluate and operationalize tools pragmatically
- Strong cross-functional partnership
- Ability to bring clarity in ambiguity
- Excellent communication
- Solid technical foundation
- Ability to engage in architectural discussions
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity.
- Healthcare coverage.
- 401k
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringAI-assisted development toolsengineering processesdelivery metricstestingreliabilityproduction readinessarchitecturescalabilityproductivity tools
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationjudgmentclarity in ambiguitycross-functional partnershipaccountabilityteam autonomybalancing speed and qualitymanaging complexity