Director, Engineering Management

Serious Development; Rondônia; Remote; BRL 757,000 - 1,060,000; Full time

Job summary

Serious Development seeks a Director of Engineering Management to lead a distributed team of 15+ senior engineers across NA and Europe. You will shape architectural standards, drive secure, scalable product platforms, and partner with CEO, Product, and Project teams to meet strategic goals.

You will oversee security, compliance with HIPAA, and SDLC governance while maintaining hands-on architectural influence and strong people management.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership.
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones (NA & Europe).
• Background with CI/CD pipelines, shared component frameworks, and engineering-wide quality metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed team of 15+ senior engineers.
• Establish KPIs on velocity, deployment predictability, stability, and release quality.
• Standardize internal docs, technical design reviews, and cross-team knowledge sharing.
• Oversee estimation to ensure scoping includes automated testing and unit coverage.
• Own high-level architectural decisions and roadmaps for multi-product platforms.

Skills

PHP

Python

.NET

React

Angular

PostgreSQL

MS SQL

MySQL

AWS

Azure

OWASP

HIPAA

Education

CS degree or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Job description

Director, Engineering Management

Job ID: 26DIRENG501 Department: Engineering Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Collaborators: Product Management, Project Management, Client Stakeholders Type: Fully Remote Location: Accepting candidates residing in the United States or Europe only Core Hour Overlap: Required daily alignment to ensure strong morning overlap with European engineering teams (e.g., US Eastern/Central mornings or European late afternoons/evenings) Travel Requirements: Quarterly executive meetings in the United States; final interview stage conducted in person within the United States.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Director, Engineering Management to serve as our primary software engineering lead. This role bridges high-level technical strategy with disciplined execution, directly overseeing a distributed team of 15+ senior engineers across North America and Europe. Reporting directly to the CEO and partnering with Product and Project Management, you will establish modern engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, ensure high-fidelity delivery, and foster a culture of accountability and transparency. The ideal candidate brings strong architectural acumen alongside pragmatic people management. While this is not a day-to-day coding position, it demands recent, hands‑on architectural experience with modern web, cloud, and mobile architectures. You must be comfortable conducting code reviews, establishing shared component libraries for multi-product scalability, and maintaining security and compliance as core tenets of system design.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed organization of 15+ senior engineers, setting performance benchmarks, managing talent growth, and handling resource planning and escalations.
• Establish clear key performance indicators (KPIs) focused on sprint velocity, deployment predictability, software stability, and release quality.
• Eliminate 'black box' engineering practices by standardizing internal documentation, technical design reviews, and cross‑team knowledge sharing.
• Oversee team estimation processes to ensure predictable scoping that incorporates automated testing and unit coverage as mandatory baseline standards.

System Architecture & Technical Rigor

• Own high-level architectural decisions, system design, and technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
• Drive modular architecture and shared component libraries to optimize code reuse, consistency, and performance across all platforms.
• Validate technical proposals, data models, and architectural patterns prior to sprint implementation.
• Actively participate in high-stakes code reviews to enforce security, performance, and maintainability standards.

Security & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure absolute adherence to US Healthcare law, including HIPAA, alongside strict compliance with internal company operating rules and all client-specific compliance policies.
• Champion a security-first engineering mindset across the organization, ensuring strict adherence to secure software development lifecycles (SDLC) and secure Protected Health Information (PHI) handling.
• Identify, audit, and systematically remediate technical debt and infrastructure vulnerabilities.

Strategic Alignment & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner closely with Product and Project Management to translate commercial roadmaps into reliable engineering releases.
• Serve as the principal technical voice for executive stakeholders and client leadership, effectively communicating complex technical strategies, architectures, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with the CEO to set company-wide technical strategy, technology stack evaluations, and organizational scaling plans.

CANDIDATE PROFILE & REQUIREMENTS

Required Experience

• 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a dedicated engineering management or technical leadership role (Director, Head of Engineering, or Senior Engineering Manager).
• Demonstrated success directly managing distributed development teams of 10–15+ engineers across international time zones (North America and Europe).
• Proven background working within either a high‑growth product company or a high‑caliber custom enterprise software consultancy
• Prior experience establishing shared component frameworks, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and engineering‑wide quality metrics.

Technical Proficiencies

• Core Languages: Strong architectural mastery of PHP (Required), paired with proficiency or exposure to Python and/or .NET.
• Frontend Frameworks: Strong familiarity with modern JavaScript architectures, specifically React or Angular.
• Databases: Advanced experience designing and optimizing relational database systems (PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, or MySQL).
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands‑on architectural experience with AWS or Azure, containerization, and modern DevOps/Git workflows.
• Security & Compliance: Working knowledge of secure coding frameworks (OWASP) and regulatory standards; direct experience with HIPAA and PHI data management is strongly preferred.

Leadership & Communication

• Transparent & Decisive: Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills, capable of providing candid feedback, resolving blockers, and articulating technical risk to non-technical partners.
• Operational Discipline: Ability to implement centralized standards without stifling developer autonomy.
• Client-Facing Presence: Poise and credibility when presenting architecture and technical roadmaps to enterprise client executives.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent).

Work Environment, Schedule & Travel

• Remote Footprint: Candidates must be legally authorized to work and reside in either the United States or Europe.
• Core Hours: Must align core daily working hours to provide solid morning overlap with our European engineering teams.
• Executive Travel: Following onboarding, the Director will travel to the United States on a quarterly basis for executive strategy sessions, engineering offsites, and roadmapping summits.