Director - Application Development

Consumer Direct Care Network

$145K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of supervisory experience in software development
  • Experience with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Proficient in architecture, application design, coding, and testing tools
  • Ability to pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and software teams
  • Establish clear expectations for quality and delivery accountability
  • Oversee software engineering delivery and execution plans
  • Improve delivery predictability through effective planning processes
  • Ensure adherence to SDLC practices and coding standards
  • Ensure timely response to production defects and incidents
  • Serve as primary engineering partner for cross-functional teams

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities
  • Fun and engaging team environment
  • Job satisfaction from making a difference
  • Career advancement training
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Vacation and paid holidays
  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match
  • Company-Paid Life Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Pet Insurance
Full Job Description
General information

Date

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Location

US - Remote

Remote/Hybrid

Yes

Position Level

Director

Employment Type

Full time

Pay Type

Annually

Pay Range
$ 145,000 - $ 160,000

Description & Requirements

JOB SUMMARY

The Director of Application Software Engineering provides leadership for application software engineering teams within the delivery center. This role is accountable for engineering execution, team performance, delivery predictability, software quality, maintainability, and adherence to approved SDLC and technical standards.

The Director leads engineering managers and software engineering teams responsible for delivering and maintaining enterprise applications. The role partners closely with Product Management, Business Analysis, Solution Architecture, QA, Infrastructure, Security, Support, and Delivery leadership to ensure approved product priorities and architectural direction are delivered with quality, reliability, and operational readiness.

This position does not own product strategy, enterprise architecture, business process ownership, or frontline support intake, but is a critical partner in each of those processes.

JOB DUTIES Engineering Leadership

  • Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and application software engineering teams.
  • Establish clear expectations for engineering execution, quality, team performance, and delivery accountability.
  • Support hiring, workforce planning, skills development, succession planning, and performance management across assigned engineering teams.
  • Build a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Delivery Execution
  • Oversee software engineering delivery across assigned applications, products, or value streams.
  • Ensure teams can translate approved requirements, acceptance criteria, and architectural direction into executable engineering plans.
  • Partner with Product, Architecture, QA, and Delivery leadership to identify scope, dependencies, risks, sequencing, and capacity constraints.
  • Improve delivery predictability through estimation discipline, sprint/release planning, dependency management, and transparent status reporting.
  • Ensure engineering teams are focused on approved, prioritized work and are not bypassing product or delivery governance.

Technical Quality and SDLC Discipline
  • Ensure engineering teams follow approved SDLC practices, coding standards, branching strategies, peer review expectations, testing practices, CI/CD processes, security requirements, and documentation standards.
  • Promote maintainable software design, automated testing, observability, operational readiness, and responsible technical debt management.
  • Partner with Architecture to ensure solution designs are implementable, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise direction.
  • Partner with QA to improve defect prevention, testability, acceptance criteria quality, and release readiness.
Production Support and Operational Reliability
  • Ensure timely engineering response to production defects, incidents, and application issues within the team's ownership.
  • Partner with Support, Infrastructure, Security, Product, QA, and Architecture on incident resolution, root cause analysis, and prevention.
  • Ensure application teams contribute to support documentation, runbooks, monitoring requirements, logging expectations, and operational readiness.
  • Help distinguish production defects, configuration issues, enhancement requests, training gaps, and business process issues.

Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Serve as the primary engineering delivery partner to Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, QA, Support, and business-facing delivery teams.
  • Provide engineering perspective on feasibility, technical complexity, delivery effort, sequencing, risks, and operational impacts.
  • Participate in planning and governance forums to represent engineering capacity, delivery risks, and execution readiness.
  • Escalate unresolved constraints, cross-team dependencies, and quality risks in a timely and transparent manner.

Continuous Improvement
  • Improve engineering delivery practices, team health, quality outcomes, and delivery throughput.
  • Identify systemic delivery bottlenecks and partner with other leaders to resolve them.
  • Support adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, DevOps maturity, observability, and quality improvement.
  • Use objective metrics to evaluate delivery health, such as cycle time, defect trends, escaped defects, deployment success, incident recurrence, and team capacity.


QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 4 years of supervisory experience leading development efforts in software development or related position, experience managing medium and large project/development teams
  • Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle including but not limited to architecting solutions, designing applications, coding, unit testing, and implementing utilizing a variety of tools and technologies
  • Must be able to successfully pass National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation
  • Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours, if needed, to meet the job requirements


The incumbent typically works in an office environment and uses a computer, telephone and other office equipment as needed to perform duties. The noise level in the work environment is typical of that of an office. Incumbent may encounter frequent interruptions throughout the workday. The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use repetitive hand motion, handle or feel, and to stand, walk, reach, bend or lift up to 20 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

When you join Consumer Direct Care Network, you will be exposed to numerous professional development opportunities. We welcome your contributions and value your integrity as we collaborate on work that moves us all toward a compassionate community. We have a long history of helping individuals build their careers in the home-care industry. This is truly a place where there is something for everyone, whether you are looking to support a particular lifestyle, seeking professional growth, or seeking new and challenging work, all in an expanding nationwide company with that small-company feel. Most importantly, you will experience the satisfaction of working in a culture built on caring. Caring for others comes naturally at Consumer Direct Care Network, based on our long history of connecting people and championing change, all geared toward helping others. We are proud of the longevity and loyalty of our employees. Their commitment to doing good work is what makes us a leader in the industry.

As a Consumer Direct Care Network team member you will receive:

  • A rewarding career helping others
  • Fun and engaging work environment built on team unity
  • Job satisfaction knowing you make a difference in the work you do and lives we serve
  • Professional training to help advance your skills for career development


Based on your position and employment status, you may be eligible for:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Vacation accrued at 3.07 hours per pay period to use when accrued
  • Two Paid Floating Holidays
  • Nine Paid Federal Holidays
  • Paid Safe Sick Time accrued at 1 hour per 30 worked to use when accrued
  • Instant Earnings Option
  • 401(k) Retirement plan & discretionary company match
  • Company-Paid Life Insurance
  • Supplemental Life, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital benefits
  • Short and Long-Term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Pet Insurance


Base Min.

$ 145,000

Base Max.

$ 160,000

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