Director of Engineering - Marketplace and Auctions

<div class="p-rich_text_section"> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Engineering to lead engineering excellence across our high-impact product vertical of Marketplace and Auctions products at a fast-growing, AI-first SaaS company. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of people, technology, and delivery — responsible for shaping how we build, who builds it, and how fast we move.</p> <p>You will own the full technical lifecycle of your vertical: from architecture and system design to team performance and delivery cadence. You will be a champion for modern AI Engineering Development Methodology, embedding AI-assisted workflows, tooling, and thinking into the DNA of your teams.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <p><strong>Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end technical strategy for your product vertical, aligning architecture decisions with business and product goals</li> <li>Drive system design, scalability planning, and architectural governance across your engineering teams</li> <li>Establish and evolve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices for a cloud-native, SaaS environment</li> <li>Lead technical design reviews, ensuring quality, security, and performance considerations are embedded from inception</li> <li>Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies — particularly AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, and AI-enabled developer tooling</li> </ul> <p><strong>People Leadership &amp; Organizational Development</strong></p> <ul> <li>Hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent across multiple squads or pods within your vertical</li> <li>Build a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and engineering craft</li> <li>Provide coaching, career development, and growth paths for engineers at all levels (IC to Staff/Principal)</li> <li>Foster an inclusive team environment that values diverse perspectives and ways of working</li> <li>Manage engineering managers and/or senior technical leads, investing in their development as leaders</li> </ul> <p><strong>Delivery Excellence &amp; Operational Rigor</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own delivery outcomes for your vertical — velocity, quality, reliability, and predictability</li> <li>Partner with Product Management to translate roadmaps into technical plans with clear milestones and risk identification</li> <li>Drive agile or continuous delivery practices, continuously improving team flow and cycle times</li> <li>Define and track engineering KPIs (DORA metrics, defect rates, on-call burden, etc.)