Solidcore
Director of Engineering
Arlington, Virginia · Director
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 22 days ago
ReactReact NativeBackend DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementBudgetingLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Technology plays a critical role in how clients discover, book, engage with, and experience the brand.
- The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with exceptional leadership, product intuition, and business judgment.
- This role reports to the Chief Digital Officer.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering organization.
- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
- Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent as the organization scales.
- Create career development paths and succession plans for engineers and future engineering managers.
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for [solidcore]'s digital ecosystem.
- Lead architecture decisions across mobile applications, web platforms, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.
- Develop technology roadmaps that balance business priorities, scalability, speed, and maintainability.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and make recommendations on platform investments and technical debt reduction.
- Own relationships with strategic engineering partners and external development teams.
- Evaluate partner performance, technical recommendations, delivery quality, and overall return on investment.
Requirements
- 10-15 years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for consumer-facing mobile and web products.
- Strong experience with modern cloud architectures, preferably AWS.
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for mobile applications, preferably within React Native environments.
- Strong understanding of APIs, backend services, integrations, and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to balance technical excellence, business priorities, and delivery timelines.
- Experience scaling consumer subscription, membership, marketplace, ecommerce, or other high-growth digital products.
- Experience with serverless and containerized architectures.
- Experience with Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architectures.
- Experience leading organizations through significant platform modernization or digital transformation efforts.
- Required
- Experience managing both internal engineering teams and external development partners.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and technical levels, including architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and critical problem solving when needed.
- Preferred
Compensation
- Competitive starting salary, based on experience
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave and parental pay benefits
- Free telehealth services
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Free drop-in classes at [solidcore]
Equal opportunity
- You can click here to find out more about the actions we are taking to promote a more diverse and inclusive space for both our clients and our internal team. [solidcore] is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
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