Director of Engineering

Energy Innovation Corp; Carlsbad (CA); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 332,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Generous PTO

Mentorship

Job summary

Energy Innovation Corp in Carlsbad, CA seeks a Director of Engineering who prioritizes ownership and rapid iteration. You will lead a learning-driven engineering team, improve the Honda Carlsbad platform, profile performance, and guide tool choices while maintaining a healthy CI/CD pipeline.

The role emphasizes reliability, mentorship from day one, and a hybrid work model with strong focus on delivering impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering leadership.
• Experience with hybrid work environments.
• Experience debugging and profiling high-throughput systems.

Responsibilities

• Reverse-engineer and improve learning-focused features.
• Ship incremental improvements to the Carlsbad platform on a regular cadence.
• Profile memory usage and diagnose leaks in critical paths.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Node.js libraries.
• Read and trace Cypress stack traces to root causes.
• Diagnose and fix user-reported issues and monitor systems.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Keep the unit test/build pipeline green for deployments.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Reliability

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Tools

Node.js

Cypress

Databases

Job description

We're a client-centric technology shop in CA hunting for a Director of Engineering who'd rather delete code than add it. The offer reads simply — hybrid, $214,000 - $332,000, 12 years, and a director role where ownership is not a perk but the point.

Key Responsibilities

• Reverse-engineer the learning-obsessed Interpersonal Skills format Honda inherited and never documented
• Ship incremental improvements to Honda's Carlsbad platform on a regular cadence
• Profile Interpersonal Skills memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Carlsbad nodes
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Node.js libraries
• Read the Cypress stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Honda workloads
• Keep the Unit Testing build pipeline green so Carlsbad deploys never wait on a red light

What You'll Bring

• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Professionalism, integrity, and discretion with sensitive information
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• A solid foundation in Interpersonal Skills, refined over 12+ years
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• A problem-solving bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait

Honda was founded in Carlsbad, CA on the idea that technology should be powerful yet refreshingly ego-light. Transparency is a habit, so roadmaps, tradeoffs, and even mistakes get shared openly.

Expect $214,000 - $332,000 plus

• full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• generous paid time off
• real mentorship from day one