Director of Software Engineering

Director of Software Engineering

The Role You'll Play

As Director of Software Engineering, you'll lead several engineering squads and manage a team of engineering managers responsible for high-impact product and platform initiatives. This is a pivotal role requiring strategic vision, operational excellence, and the ability to scale engineering organizations during a critical growth phase. You'll balance the execution of near-term product initiatives with the architectural decisions that support long-term platform vision and reliability.

You'll also help shape how AI advances both our product experience and the way our engineering organization operates by identifying high-value opportunities, guiding responsible adoption, and enabling teams to experiment and build with emerging technologies effectively.

You'll partner closely with our VP of Engineering, product leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to unblock teams and drive measurable impact. Your engineering managers will oversee strong individual contributor teams, so you'll focus on providing strategic direction, coaching your manager-level reports, removing organizational friction, and ensuring your leadership creates an environment where your best engineers do their best work.

You'll Spend Time working on:

• Setting vision and strategy for the supply engineering organization, including roadmap prioritization, technical architecture decisions, and resource allocation across four engineering teams
• Building and developing engineering leaders
• Owning the reliability and scalability of the systems at the center of the marketplace — inventory accuracy, reservation throughput, and the integrity of our integrations with external partner platforms
• Balancing velocity with code quality, operational maturity, and long-term maintainability
• Managing upward effectively with your VP of Engineering and broader leadership team, surfacing risks and opportunities while advocating for your teams' needs
• Owning cross-team collaboration across backend services, APIs, and adjacent engineering organizations, driving alignment on shared technical decisions
• Championing engineerin