Director of Engineering (Platform & Scale)

Requirements

• We’re looking for passionate, talented people who want to be part of a winning team
• Proven Management Scale: Experience leading multiple engineering teams (including managing other managers) in a fast-paced, product-led environment
• Deep Technical Roots: A strong background in backend or platform engineering, with the demonstrable ability to design and critique distributed systems at scale
• Architectural Mastery: Experience with event-driven architecture, real-time data processing, and making clear technical decisions under ambiguity
• Strategic Partnership: A track record of working effectively with Product and stakeholders at all levels to balance performance, reliability, and cost
• Pragmatic Problem Solving: The ability to move comfortably between high-level organizational strategy and low-level technical detail
• Clear Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex trade-offs clearly without relying on others to define the direction
• (Desirable) Scaling Experience: You’ve personally designed systems that needed to scale—and you have seen exactly where they break
• (Desirable) Conflict Resolution: You have challenged engineers or stakeholders when necessary and can articulate the technical or business reasoning behind it
• (Desirable) Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred)
• (Desirable) Agile & Lean Mastery: Practical experience driving efficiency using Agile principles and modern engineering practices (TDD, CI/CD, DDD)

What the job involves

• The Director of Engineering is a key leadership role at the intersection of technical depth, people management, and product partnership
• At Partnerize, we operate a high-scale platform processing over a billion daily events
• You will be responsible for overseeing multiple cross‑functional engineering teams through Engineering Managers, driving the development and execution of strategies that ensure high throughput, resilience, and observability
• This is not a purely strategic role; you are a technical authority who leads through judgment, guiding architectural decisions and working closely with engineers on complex distributed systems
• At the heart of our platform, we track performance marketing data and build a number of solutions to turn this data into useful information for our customers. We work with a lot of data, generating over a billion events across our infrastructure daily. We aim to make as much of this data available in real‑time as possible, which is no mean feat at this scale! Our platform is powered by our REST APIs and everything is developed with an API‑first approach
• The primary technologies we use are PHP, Python, JavaScript (React), and Kafka. Data is stored in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Druid, and Redis. We are constantly evolving our platform and tools to take advantage of the ever‑changing tech landscape. We deploy to production several times a day
• Lead through Managers: Manage Engineering Managers and Agile Delivery Leads of cross‑functional teams, owning delivery, quality, and system reliability
• Act as Technical Authority: Guide architecture across backend and platform systems—not just reviewing it, but actively shaping the design of high‑concurrency, event‑driven systems
• Partner with Product: Collaborate closely with Product leaders to shape roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and balance speed against scalability and technical debt
• Drive Engineering Standards: Develop and maintain processes and best practices for distributed systems and APIs to enable high‑quality software delivery at scale
• Manage Outcomes: Take ownership of technical outcomes and system health, ensuring infrastructure is designed for resilience and observability
• Nurture Talent: Act as a mentor and role model for Engineering Managers and senior engineers, strengthening both technical and leadership capability across the tribe
• Foster Culture: Drive a culture of high ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring engineering efforts align with organizational goals

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