Senior Director, Engineering

Job Title:                              Senior Director, Engineering

Reports To:                         CTO

FLSA Status:                       Exempt

Department:                      Engineering

 

JOB SUMMARY:  Responsible for leading and managing the engineering organization, ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions that support business objectives. This role provides strategic direction, oversees engineering execution and technical standards, develops engineering talent, and partners with cross-functional leaders to align technology initiatives with organizational goals.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Engineering Leadership and Strategy:
  • Define and own the engineering vision, technical strategy, and multi-year roadmap in partnership with executive leadership
  • Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering teams, including engineering managers and senior individual contributors
  • Build and scale a high-performing organization through hiring, and talent development
  • Establish engineering standards, best practices, and a culture of technical and operational excellence
• Execution and Delivery:
  • Drive predictable, high-quality delivery of software across teams, balancing speed, quality, and technical debt
  • Oversee architecture and technical decision-making to ensure scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems
  • Own platform reliability, performance, and availability across AWS and GCP environments
  • Establish metrics and operating cadences to measure team health, delivery velocity, and system performance
• Cross-Functional Partnership:
  • Partner closely with Product, Security, and business stakeholders to align engineering with company goals
  • Communicate technical strategy, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership
  • Represent engineering in company-wide planning, prioritization, and resourcing decisions
• Operational and Financial Stewardship:
  • Ensure systems meet the security, compliance, and regulatory requirements relevant to fintech (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, etc.)
  • Manage key vendor relationships and lead build-versus-buy decisions

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

 

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or platform roles
• 5+ years in engineering leadership, including experience managing engineering managers and leading teams of 20+ engineers
• Proven track record building, scaling, and retaining high-performing engineering organizations
• Demonstrated success setting technical strategy and delivering complex software at scale
• Strong technical foundation across cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP), distributed systems, and modern software architecture
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure as code, and event-driven/streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka)
• Experience owning reliability, security, and operational excellence for production systems
• Strong understanding of security and compliance best practices in cloud-native environments

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of FinOps practices, frameworks, and cloud cost-governance tooling
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
• Fintech Domain Experience:
  • Familiarity with loan origination systems (LOS)
  • Experience working with loan servicing platforms (e.g., LoanPro)
  • Understanding of end-to-end lending workflows including application intake, underwriting, decisioning, funding, and post-close processes
  • Knowledge of consumer lending products such as personal loans, auto loans, mortgages, or lines of credit
  • Awareness of regulatory and compliance requirements in lending (e.g., TILA, ECOA, FCRA, FDCPA, GLBA, UDAAP)
  • Experience integrating with credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion) or third-party data providers for identity verification and risk decisioning

 

COMPETENCIES:

• Customer Service: Exceptional attitude and a passion for providing outstanding service to internal customers.
• Strategic Leadership: Develops and communicates a clear technology vision that aligns engineering initiatives with organizational goals and long-term business