About the opportunity
Our client, an established and growing technology-driven organization in Central Pennsylvania, is hiring a Director of Software Engineering to build and lead an engineering team delivering modern digital products.
This is a hands-on leadership role with real ownership. You will lead four feature teams, and shape how engineering is structured, hired and developed. You'll partner closely with Product and a dedicated architecture leader.
What you'll do
- Own engineering delivery from roadmap through release
- Lead, coach and grow feature teams
- Hire and develop talent and set the engineering practices and standards
- Partner with Product, Architecture and business leaders on priorities and technical direction
- Drive practical adoption of AI across the product and the engineering lifecycle
What you bring
- Experience leading product engineering teams within a SaaS environment
- Proven people leadership: hiring, developing leaders and managing performance
- Strong technical credibility across cloud-native architecture, APIs and event-driven systems
- Comfort with a modern stack: Java and Spring Boot, TypeScript and React, Kafka, AWS and Kubernetes (adjacent backends welcome)
- Clear, concise communication with both technical and executive audiences
- Senior Engineering Managers ready for their first Director role are encouraged to apply
Details
- On-site four days per week in Central Pennsylvania
- Relocation support available
- Competitive base salary, annual bonus and a full benefits package
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