Director of Engineering

Manufacturing Plus; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 196,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits suite

Job summary

Manufacturing Plus in Aurora, CO seeks a Director of Engineering to build, test, and deploy Elasticsearch services that keep our business running. This contract leadership role focuses on mentoring teams and delivering reliable pipelines.

You will backfill Angular test coverage, keep CI lean, and translate stakeholder wishes into actionable GitLab CI tasks, all while navigating the rhythms of a mentorship-focused, collaborative engineering culture in Aurora.

Qualifications

• Diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet.
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain.
• Collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame.
• Comfort with contract arrangements and the rhythms of an endlessly-iterating workplace.
• Communication discipline to over-share early and trim later.

Responsibilities

• Backfill Angular test coverage on the riskiest corners of Manufacturing Plus's codebase.
• Prototype rough Goal Setting ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Manufacturing Plus's stack.
• Keep Manufacturing Plus's Angular CI under ten minutes so Aurora, CO engineers stay in flow.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Angular.
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Manufacturing Plus stakeholders into shippable GitLab CI services.
• Translate data-honest business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.

Skills

Stakeholder alignment

Written communication

Collaboration

Contract arrangements

Communication discipline

Tools

GitLab CI

Elasticsearch

Angular

Selenium

Job description

As our new Director of Engineering, you will build, test, and deploy Elasticsearch services that keep our business running. A contract Director of Engineering post in Aurora that values Selenium over 10 years, pays $196,000 - $285,000, and never boxes you in.

Key Responsibilities

• Backfill Angular test coverage on the riskiest corners of Manufacturing Plus's codebase
• Prototype rough Goal Setting ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Manufacturing Plus's stack
• Keep Manufacturing Plus's Angular CI under ten minutes so Aurora, CO engineers stay in flow
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Angular
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Manufacturing Plus stakeholders into shippable GitLab CI services
• Translate data-honest business requirements into technical specifications and tasks

What You'll Bring

• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• Comfort with contract arrangements and the rhythms of an endlessly-iterating workplace
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later

Inside Manufacturing Plus's Aurora headquarters, a mentorship-focused team treats every Angular bug like a personal insult worth fixing tonight. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

We do not just dangle $196,000 - $285,000; we back it with mentorship, a real benefits suite, and schedules that bend around Aurora, CO living.

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