Director Engineering, Integrations

Air-tek

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles
  • Experience leading enterprise SaaS integration teams in growth environments
  • Strong technical knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, and cloud architectures
  • Proven ability in designing configuration-driven systems
  • Skilled in managing complex delivery with external partners
  • Excellent communicator, adept at explaining technical concepts
  • Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira and Confluence

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams focused on integrations
  • Establish workflows, SOPs, and standards for integration projects
  • Promote an integrations-as-a-platform approach for scalability and reuse
  • Apply systems thinking to balance customer needs with platform constraints
  • Collaborate with Product, Delivery, and Services for clearer planning
  • Manage short-term implementations alongside long-term platform goals
  • Enhance delivery predictability, estimation, and release management
  • Foster a high-trust culture with clear roles and career paths

Benefits

  • Stock options eligibility
  • Commitment to fair and equitable salary practices
Full Job Description
We're looking for an Engineering Director, Integrations to lead teams responsible for building and scaling enterprise-grade integrations that connect our platform with airline systems and third-party services. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineering leader who thrives in complex, customer-facing environments and excels at systems thinking-viewing integrations not as one-off projects, but as configurable, reusable platform capabilities. You'll help evolve integrations from bespoke implementations into a scalable integration platform that supports growth, repeatability, and long-term maintainability. You'll play a critical role in strengthening operating models, improving cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring integration work scales with customer demand-without burning out teams. This is an opportunity to reshape how integrations are built and delivered, improve team health and morale, and create a durable foundation for future growth in a rapidly scaling SaaS organization. What you'll do: - Lead, mentor, and grow multiple integration-focused engineering teams - Establish clear workflows, SOPs, and intake standards for integration work - Drive an integrations-as-a-platform mindset, prioritizing configurability, reuse, and consistency over custom solutions - Apply systems thinking to integration design, balancing customer needs, platform constraints, and long-term scalability - Partner closely with Product, Delivery, and Services to improve requirement clarity, planning, and execution - Balance short-term customer implementations with long-term platform scalability, reliability, and quality - Improve delivery predictability, estimation, and release management - Drive strong engineering practices around quality, testing, reliability, and architecture - Build a high-trust culture with clear roles, ownership, and career paths What you bring: - 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles - Proven experience leading teams delivering enterprise SaaS integrations in high-growth environments - Strong technical background in distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-first architectures - Experience designing configuration-driven systems and reducing custom implementation overhead - Comfort operating in environments with external partners, incomplete requirements, and complex delivery dependencies - Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical tradeoffs clearly and empathetically - Agile/Scrum experience; comfortable with tools like Jira and Confluence Our Tech Stack: AWS, C# / .NET Core, MongoDB, Docker Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive salary that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization. In addition to salary, new hires may be eligible to receive stock options.

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