Staff Software Engineer, Android – Telematics
Motive
Android
Director of Engineering
PlanHub
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudMySQLPostgresSDLC
About the role
- Own and drive the planning and delivery of product and engineering roadmaps, ensuring proper resourcing and delivery on commitments.
- Implement and evolve metrics-driven practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure adherence to secure coding, scalable design, and performance best practices across the platform.
- Oversee architectural reviews and design quality across projects—ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Engage in code reviews, architectural evaluations, and design sessions.
- Support adoption of AI/ML components and modern platform technologies.
- Manage and mentor Engineering Managers and senior ICs, developing their technical and leadership capabilities.
- Foster a high-performance culture centered on ownership, accountability, and excellence.
- Promote continuous improvement via structured retrospectives, process improvements, and feedback loops.
- Lead modernization initiatives including re-architecture, service decomposition, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps automation.
- Drive adoption of AWS-native services (e.g., Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, etc.).
- Champion cloud-native engineering, secure development, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
- Act as a senior counterpart to Product Management, Customer Success, Support, and Sales Engineering.
- Participate in quarterly and sprint planning to align engineering priorities with business outcomes.
- Represent Engineering in executive discussions around OKRs, tech debt, innovation, and delivery health.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership (Director or Senior EM).
- Proven experience in SaaS platform development and delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to manage managers and senior ICs in distributed teams.
- Strong knowledge of AWS infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with OLTP databases (ideally Aurora/MySQL or Postgres).
- Hands-on technical background: ability to review code, critique architectures, and guide design choices.
- Expertise in implementing and scaling metrics-driven SDLC processes.
- Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident management.
- Familiarity with AI/ML product integration and collaboration with Data Science teams.
- Deep commitment to security best practices, including secure SDLC, secrets management, and access controls.
- Driver mindset with bias for action and ownership.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate with minimal supervision while aligning to executive goals.
- Comfortable challenging the status quo, proposing improvements, and executing change.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
Benefits
- An awesome culture where you will be empowered, make an impact, and learn a ton.
- Flexible time-off policy.
- An excellent benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- 401(k)/RRSP plan with company match.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringSaaS platform developmentAWS infrastructureOLTP databasesAuroraMySQLPostgresDevOpsCI/CD pipelinesmetrics-driven SDLC
Soft skills
leadershiporganizational skillscommunication skillspresentation skillsstakeholder managementcross-functional collaborationownershipaccountabilitycontinuous improvementdriver mindset
