Suvoda
Director, Software Engineering
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 89 days ago
PythonAngularDjangoExpressDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitPostgreSQLRedisDynamoDBAWSTerraformCI/CDRESTLLMsProduct ManagementAgileLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- The role demands a blend of technical and business acumen, strategic and tactical focus, and an ability to balance architectural best practice and innovation pragmatism.
- In a typical business day, the Director, Engineering may find themselves pair-programming with developers on a priority feature or defect and briefing the C-suite on roadmap direction and key technical decisions.
- Suvoda will never request personal information such as your bank account number, credit card number, drivers license or social security number - or request payment from you - during the job application or interview process.
Responsibilities
- Explores new technologies for future planning and potential implementation and evaluates and identifies appropriate technology to deliver business objectives.
- Ensures engineering best practices are defined and met across teams and develops and governs technical standards to ensure adherence.
- Collaborates with architects and principal engineers in the technical design of initiatives and business priorities.
- Provides leadership and professional growth with the goal to build our next generation of engineering leaders.
- Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns, microservices, and distributed systems design
- Supports teams in the discovery and design of product backlog items and identifies and manages cross organization dependencies.
- Develop Proof of Concept solutions to demonstrate technical design and can dive into the code and pair program with engineers as necessary.
- Initiates and drives continuous improvement initiatives, challenges self and teams to continuously grow and achieve new levels of success.
- Will be held accountable for the design, development, and delivery of Suvoda product and solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent relevant work experience and/or training.
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in the software industry, including at least 5 years in a leadership position.
- Proven experience delivering cloud-native applications on AWS, including IaC tooling (Terraform), container orchestration (EKS), and cloud cost optimization
- Strong experience with software development best practices and tooling, agile testing, developer operations, continuous integration and delivery, and site reliability engineering.
- Relevant technical knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud services, cloud development, containerization, business domain modelling, data warehouses and analytical platforms.
- Proven experience in Agile Software Development methodology.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS architecture and development in a product-driven environment, including multi-tenancy, scalability, and platform reliability at scale
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Anthropic's Claude API or Claude Code for agentic developer workflows, including task automation, code generation pipelines, and AI-assisted code review
- Experience integrating LLM-powered tooling into the SDLC - such as AI-assisted test generation, documentation automation, or intelligent PR summarization
- Familiarity with prompt engineering principles and the ability to coach engineers on effective human-AI collaboration patterns
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Benefits
- Works with the S VP of Engineering to build a technical vision for the product line.
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