Director of Engineering - Remote

Overview

We are seeking a highly accomplished Director of Engineering to lead our global engineering organization in driving organizational transformation, platform modernization, and large-scale ERP and core services migrations.

In Short

• Lead modernization and migration of legacy systems to cloud-native architectures and microservices.
• Define and drive the architectural vision for scalable, event-driven distributed systems on AWS.
• Oversee engineering teams building microservices, serverless applications, relational and NoSQL databases.
• Champion adoption of AI-first approaches to improve productivity, monitoring, testing, and automation.
• Drive platform consolidation and core services migration to reduce complexity and operational costs.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering organization across time zones.
• Establish a culture of excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
• Ensure teams are aligned with business priorities and deliver on time with high quality.
• Implement world-class monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for real-time visibility.
• Anticipate industry trends and position the company to leverage emerging AI and cloud-native technologies.

Requirements

• 12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles managing distributed teams.
• Strong background in organizational transformation, platform modernization, and ERP/core services migrations.
• Proven expertise in AWS cloud services, event-driven systems, and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with relational (Postgres, MySQL) and non-relational databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.).
• Demonstrated success in building AI-enabled systems, automation frameworks, or ML/AI integrations.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills to guide global teams.
• Strong background in observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• Deep understanding of enterprise data pipelines, real-time dashboards, and data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).

Benefits

• Work with a diverse, remote-first engineering team.
• Opportunity to drive innovation and excellence in enterprise integration.
• Be part of a company with a rich history in online professional education.