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Director, Engineering

Applause

Location

Denver, CO

Salary

Not specified

Type

Full-time

Posted

Today

via linkedin

Job Description

We're seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to join our leadership team and report directly to our Co-Founder/CTO, Scott Rogers. This is a critical management-focused role where you'll lead our entire development team, recruit and ramp new engineers, and scale processes in order to help take the department to the next level.

Responsibilities:

  • Team Leadership \& Development

+ Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team across all functions (backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, QA)

+ Recruit, onboard, and retain exceptional engineering talent

+ Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement

+ Conduct regular 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and provide coaching to develop future leaders

  • Product Development \& Execution

+ Partner closely with Product leadership to translate the product roadmap into engineering deliverables

+ Own sprint planning, resource allocation, and delivery timelines across all engineering initiatives

+ Ensure predictable, reliable product releases with minimal bugs and strong quality assurance

+ Drive alignment between engineering capacity and product priorities

  • Engineering Excellence \& Quality

+ Establish and enforce code quality standards, testing practices, and peer review processes

+ Implement CI/CD pipelines and development workflows that enable rapid, safe deployments

+ Build quality assurance processes, including automated testing, code coverage, and monitoring

+ Create technical documentation standards and knowledge-sharing practices

+ Foster engineering best practices around system design, security, and performance optimization

  • Technical Strategy \& Operations

+ Collaborate with Lead Developer on technical vision and long-term technology strategy

+ Make build vs. buy decisions and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools

+ Oversee infrastructure planning, capacity management, and cloud optimization

+ Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance meet SLA commitments

+ Manage engineering budget and resource planning

+ Implement metrics and KPIs to measure team productivity, quality, and velocity

Requirements

Qualifications:

  • 8\+ years in software engineering with 3\+ years in engineering leadership roles (Manager or Director level)
  • Proven track record of scaling engineering teams from 5-10 to 20-50\+ engineers
  • Experience managing managers and building organizational structures
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex SaaS products in fast-paced startup environments
  • Strong background in modern web app development and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience implementing engineering processes, standards, and best practices from the ground up
  • Track record of successful collaboration with Product teams to execute roadmaps
  • Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities
  • Very effective in a remote work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous experience at a Series A or Series B SaaS company during hypergrowth (2-5x growth)
  • Hands-on technical background with the ability to review architecture and code when needed
  • Experience with modern tech stacks (React, Node.js, Python, Go, microservices, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed teams or remote-first engineering cultures
  • History of successful technical hiring and building talent pipelines

Benefits

Benefits:

100% remote w/ no office mandate \| Unlimited PTO \| 22 official company holidays \| Health care \| Life insurance \| Stock options \| Amazing colleagues \| Energetic culture that is positive and celebrates together \| Inspiring mission \& software product \| Ability to grow your career by being early in a fast-growing tech startup

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