Hybrid Director of Engineering

at PetScreening

• Job title: Director of Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Charlotte, United States

About the role

• Director of Engineering responsible for leading PetScreening’s distributed product engineering organization and managing a global team of 20+ engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team: Manage, mentor, and hire software engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the technical strategy: Partner with product management and other business stakeholders to develop and implement a robust technical roadmap that supports our business, technology, and product growth goals.
• Drive engineering excellence: Establish and enforce best practices for software engineering including code quality, testing, deployment, and security.
• Scale the organization: Development and optimize processes to support rapid team growth, ensuring we can grow our engineering headcount while effectively delivering product portfolio growth at scale.
• Oversee the product development lifecycle: Guide the team from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery of high quality, scalable, reliable and secure software.
• Manage technical debt and architectural decisions: Make strategic choices to balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural needs for our products.
• Foster a culture of ownership and innovation: Develop a culture of accountability and technical ownership including willingness to exceed product and quality expectations without sacrifices velocity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• At least 5 years in progressive people leadership roles (e.g., Engineering Manager → Senior Manager → Director).
• Must demonstrate proven success in performance management, talent development, difficult conversations, and organizational design.
• Strong background with hands-on experience in a modern tech stack building and designing scalable enterprise systems.
• Preferred experience with cloud-native architecture (AWS), API development, microservices, relational and non-relational data, and CI/CD environments.
• Ability to translate business goals into a clear and actionable technical strategy with a proven track record of success in product delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Leadership: A servant leader mindset who empowers their team.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/HSA benefits offered after 30 days of employment.
• Company sponsored Life Insurance and Short Term Disability.
• Optional Life Insurance and Long Term Disability Plans.
• 401(k) with 3% match regardless of employee contribution.
• Quarterly open enrollment.
• Paid time off accrual beginning first day of employment.
• Paid holidays.
• Optional remote work days.
• Paid Family/Military/Bereavement leave.
• Pet friendly office.