Director of Engineering

Egreenservices; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 187,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor program

Benefits suite

Job summary

Civic Engagement Corp in Arvada, CO seeks a Director of Engineering to transform vague tech requests into precise, metrics-driven systems. You will lead a small, collaborative team and own critical cloud and backend tooling.

Bring 10 years of experience, a track record with Express.js, Spring Boot, and Linux, and a bias for scalable solutions. The role offers growth potential and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Ability to translate vague tech requests into concrete, metrics-driven systems.
• Hands-on expertise with Express.js and Spring Boot in production environments.
• Strong Linux skills and cloud tooling familiarity.
• Data-driven thinking and willingness to take ownership.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Build Express.js tooling to accelerate Arvada engineers.
• Translate compliance rules into Linux guardrails in the build.
• Backfill REST API test coverage in risky areas.
• Stand up observability to surface failures before customers see them.
• Tune AWS queries to reduce database timeouts under load.
• Drive best practices in testing, security, and observability.
• Develop self-service decision tools to reduce ticket volume.

Skills

Express.js

Cultural Awareness

Spring Boot

Linux

Observability

AWS

Tools

AWS

REST API testing

Job description

We need a Director of Engineering who can take a vague technology request and return a metrics-driven system that does exactly, and only, what was asked. Bring 10 years to this CO Director of Engineering job and Civic Engagement Corp answers with $187,000 - $283,000 and a runway that keeps unrolling.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Build the Express.js tooling that makes every other Arvada engineer faster
• Translate technology compliance rules into Linux guardrails baked into the build
• Backfill REST API test coverage on the riskiest corners of Civic Engagement Corp's codebase
• Stand up observability so Civic Engagement Corp sees failures before customers in CO do
• Tune AWS queries until the CO database stops timing out under load
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Build Decision Making self-service tools so Arvada teams stop filing tickets for everything

What You'll Bring

• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Hands-on command of Cultural Awareness, with Express.js as a close second
• A Civic Engagement Corp mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Fluency across Spring Boot and Linux, with strong opinions on both

The team at Civic Engagement Corp is small, team-oriented, and entirely convinced that Arvada is the best place to reinvent technology. The team trusts each other to do the right thing without constant oversight or micromanagement.

Our offer to you: $187,000 - $283,000, a mentor, a benefits suite, and the latitude to grow your Spring Boot into something senior.

This one is current, freshly dated, and very much hiring.