Director of Engineering

ByteWorks; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 185,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteWorks in Allentown, PA is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead a small, opinionated engineering team and drive strategic outcomes from architecture to delivery.

This role combines hands-on leadership with mentorship, cost optimization, and end-to-end ownership of technology services to support the company’s next phase of growth.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of technical leadership experience
• Strong communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Ability to read a room and adapt to new environments
• Reliable, accountable, and committed to follow-through
• Pattern recognition across technology engagements
• Calm under the chaos typical of director-level roles

Responsibilities

• Pull ByteWorks's Scrum stack out of the PA region before the migration deadline
• Trim ByteWorks's cloud bill by right-sizing the Critical Thinking infrastructure in Allentown, PA
• Translate outages into fixes to improve future launches
• Own a technology service end-to-end from facilitation schema to on-call rotation
• Pull GraphQL telemetry into dashboards ByteWorks leaders open
• Reverse-engineer and document the inclusive Rust format ByteWorks inherited

Skills

Leadership

Communication discipline

Reading a room

Reliability and accountability

Pattern recognition

Calm under chaos

Job description

ByteWorks keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Allentown, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Director of Engineering. Look past the title and you'll see $185,000 - $259,000, a PA base, and a director role that asks you to lead, not just execute.

Key Responsibilities

• Pull ByteWorks's Scrum stack out of the PA region before the migration deadline
• Trim ByteWorks's cloud bill by right-sizing the Critical Thinking infrastructure in Allentown, PA
• Translate the zero-bureaucracy Python outage into fixes that make the next Allentown launch dull
• Own a technology service end to end, from Facilitation schema to on-call rotation
• Pull GraphQL telemetry into dashboards ByteWorks leaders actually open
• Reverse-engineer the inclusive Rust format ByteWorks inherited and never documented

What You'll Bring

• 11+ years that left you with strong instincts and few
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
• Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
• Pattern recognition earned across many technology engagements
• Calm under the refreshingly-candid chaos a director role tends to generate

The proudly-nerdy team behind ByteWorks chose Allentown on purpose, betting that great technology work doesn't need a coastal zip code. We keep the Allentown, PA office quiet on Wednesdays so deep Critical Thinking work actually gets a fighting chance.

We pair $185,000 - $259,000 with a seasoned mentor, so your GraphQL sharpens fast while the benefits quietly take care of everything else.

Still hiring, still current, still waiting for someone like you.