Director of Engineering

We are looking for a leader who knows how to get great engineers to do their best work, remove what gets in their way, and drive outcomes that matter to customers.

- Engineering teams under your leadership ship reliably, predictably, and at high quality - without constant re-prioritization or rework

- You reduce delivery friction through clear ownership, smart process, and tight feedback loops

- Principal and Senior Engineers are unblocked, growing, and doing the best work of their careers

- You maintain a close enough pulse on the technical work to identify risk early and course-correct before it compounds

- You translate product and business priorities into clear engineering roadmaps with realistic commitments

- Incident response is coordinated, post-mortems lead to real change, and reliability improves over time

- You are a trusted partner to the CTO, Leadership team, and Customer Success - communicating clearly and proactively

- You build a team culture of accountability, craftsmanship, and speed without sacrificing durability

- Engineering execution across backend platform, infrastructure, and AI-powered systems

- Direct management of Principal Engineers and Senior Engineers across platform teams

- Engineering roadmap planning, sprint execution, and delivery forecasting in close partnership with Leadership

- Hiring, onboarding, and leveling decisions for the engineering organization

- Engineering culture: code review standards, incident response, technical documentation, and team rituals

- Cross-functional communication: translating engineering status, risk, and tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders

- Operational reliability: uptime, SLA adherence, and production incident coordination across teams

- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including direct management of senior or principal-level engineers

- Prior experience as a hands-on engineer with deep backend expertise - you can read and reason about production code

- Demonstrated track record of shipping complex software products on time and at scale

- Experience leading engineering teams building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems in production

- Backend: Python (primary), microservices, REST and gRPC APIs

- Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP,, AWS or Azure; Kubernetes; Terraform

- Databases: PostgreSQL, NoSQL systems; vector and graph databases a plus

- AI/LLM Systems: familiarity with LLM-powered product development and evaluation pipelines

- Experience hiring, leveling, and developing engineers in a fast-moving startup or high-growth company

- Ability to engage credibly in technical design discussions and challenge decisions constructively

- You've led delivery of a platform or infrastructure modernization initiative that measurably improved reliability or velocity

- You have direct experience leading engineering in an AI-native or LLM-powered product company

- You've built and scaled engineering teams from early stage through enterprise-grade production environments

- You use data and instrumentation to diagnose delivery problems - not instinct alone

- You've successfully navigated the tension between product speed and technical sustainability, and have a clear point of view on how to do it

- You will manage some of the most technically capable engineers in the market - your credibility must be earned, not assumed

- You are working at the frontier of AI-powered enterprise software development, with a platform that has over 27 patents and counting

- Your teams build and improve Blitzy using Blitzy itself - holding the platform to the highest real-world production standards

- This is a small, senior organization - your decisions have direct company-wide impact and are felt immediately

- You operate with a high degree of autonomy and executive trust in a fast-moving, low-ego, high-output environment

"We move Blitzy Fast": Time is both our company's and our clients' most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.