Director of Engineering
Technosylva
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Spain
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About the role
- Drive organizational architectural vision that aligns with business goals, future growth, and industry trends.
- Establish and enforce architectural principles, best practices, and governance frameworks across all engineering teams.
- Review and evaluate large-scale architectural proposals from engineering managers, ensuring alignment with company technical strategy.
- Guide technical prioritization across multiple teams and domains, connecting how various systems interact and impact each other.
- Maintain deep technical understanding across the entire technology stack to make informed strategic decisions.
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and sustainability.
- Ensure critical systems are properly monitored, observable, and supported by effective alerting and incident response processes.
- Oversee incident management practices, ensuring issues are detected early, communicated clearly, and resolved with minimal customer impact.
- Drive accountability for operational performance, post-incident analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Co-lead the organization-wide quality and testing strategy, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, and business objectives.
- Ensure that quality is a shared responsibility across engineering teams, embedding testing and quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with the Director of QA to define, track, and review organization-level quality and reliability KPIs.
- Hold Engineering Managers accountable for adopting and maintaining the quality standards and practices defined in collaboration with QA.
- Coordinate with QA leadership on the evolution of testing processes, tooling, and automation strategies, ensuring consistency, scalability, and effectiveness across teams.
- Lead, mentor, and develop Engineering Managers, building strong leadership capability across the organization.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, psychological safety, and feedback.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, with experience managing managers.
- Experience leading organizations of 25+ engineers across multiple domains.
- Proven track record of leading engineering organizations through significant growth and change.
- Deep technical expertise across multiple domains with ability to evaluate complex architectural decisions.
- Experience driving cross-functional collaboration and influencing without authority at executive level.
- Strong background in operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, and quality systems.
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
- Exceptional communication skills, with experience influencing senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrated experience defining, cascading, and driving execution against organizational goals (e.g., OKRs), ensuring alignment between engineering initiatives and business objectives.
- Excellent English and Spanish proficiency (written and verbal) is mandatory. Must be able to effectively communicate complex technical concepts, lead executive-level discussions, and document strategic decisions in both languages.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary.
- Attractive benefits package, including health insurance and flexible benefits.
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance.
- Flexible working hours.
- Remote work options available.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
architectural principlesgovernance frameworksincident managementmonitoringobservabilityalertingquality systemstesting processesautomation strategiessoftware development lifecycle
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcross-functional collaborationinfluencing without authorityaccountabilitycontinuous improvementpsychological safetyfeedbackmentoringstrategic decision-making