Position Summary: We are seeking a Platform Software Engineering Director to join our growing team. This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Platform Software Engineering Director, you will have relevant experience with both front-end and back-end coding languages, software development architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and third-party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong background leading teams developing consumer-facing digital products in collaboration with product and design leaders. This individual must be creative, client focused, team player, organized, and can thrive in a dynamic environment.
Duties & Responsibilities: - As a member of the Research and Development / Product Leadership team, will provide design services, resource planning, work estimation and coordination for multiple delivery teams
- Lead a team of software engineers and quality engineers to design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards.
- Collaborate with Product and Design Leaders to lead product delivery teams.
- Set short to medium term technical direction, creating plans to help achieve goals
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
- Package and support deployment of releases.
- Foster an environment where different backgrounds, cultures, industry and life experiences are embraced and valued.
- Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization's scaling business needs
- Collaborate with other software developers, product managers and software architects to plan, design and deliver applications.
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
- Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget.
- Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
- Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
- Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
- Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards
- Full code ownership mandatory - Must understand, explain, and support all AI-assisted code as if written from scratch
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities: - Provide direction, guidance, and support to a team of employees. Set clear expectations, delegate tasks, and ensure effective communication within the team.
- Evaluate employee performance, provide feedback, and conduct performance reviews. Identify areas for development and create plans to enhance team members' skills.
- Uniformly identify high performers who consistently produce quality work.
- Remove barriers for the team, ensuring team members have all the tools, resources, and context to execute.
- Active coaching of the team and developing individual development plans for all team members.
- Overcome challenges and conflicts that arise within the team or projects.
- Make decisions that balance various factors and contribute to the overall success of the organization.
- Cultivate relationships with clients, partners, and other departments to facilitate collaboration and achieve common goals.
- Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new team members.
Education & Experience: - 10 or more years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Practical AI experience - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Technical Proficiency and Skills:
- Git Version Control System
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms, preferably GCP
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Great attention to detail and organizational skills
- Experience delivering individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
- Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault-tolerant, and high availability solutions
- Experience with DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, SecDevOps, Containers, Serverless
Other Requirements: - Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
