Director of Engineering

Egreenservices; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 177,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

ScaleUp Solutions in Colorado Springs is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our engineering organization through a critical migration and strategic growth. The role offers a base salary of $177,000 to $251,000 in Colorado with significant ownership of the remainder of the market upside.

You will own the director accountability workstream, drive microservices, oversee MySQL reliability, and ship regular platform improvements while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Pattern recognition earned across many technology engagements.
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities.
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action.
• At least 10 years of standing behind your own estimates.
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own.
• Practical command of Microservices, with bonus points for MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Pull ScaleUp Solutions's Angular stack out of the CO region before the migration deadline
• Ship incremental improvements to ScaleUp Solutions's Colorado Springs platform on a regular cadence
• Sketch Microservices sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Own the director Accountability workstream that unblocks the rest of ScaleUp Solutions's Colorado Springs, CO roadmap
• Own the fast-moving Microservices subsystem that the rest of ScaleUp Solutions quietly depends on
• Stress-test MySQL systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Drive the Accountability incident postmortem that stops the Colorado Springs outage from recurring

Skills

Pattern recognition

Ownership

Time management

Estimation accuracy

Financial ownership

Microservices

MySQL

Tools

MySQL

Job description

Between the demo that wows and the system that survives sits the Director of Engineering we're recruiting in Colorado Springs, and ScaleUp Solutions pays $177,000 - $251,000 for the difference. The proposition holds together — $177,000 - $251,000, 12 years, a CO base, and ownership the rest of the market rarely grants.

Key Responsibilities

• Pull ScaleUp Solutions's Angular stack out of the CO region before the migration deadline
• Ship incremental improvements to ScaleUp Solutions's Colorado Springs platform on a regular cadence
• Sketch Microservices sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Own the director Accountability workstream that unblocks the rest of ScaleUp Solutions's Colorado Springs, CO roadmap
• Own the fast-moving Microservices subsystem that the rest of ScaleUp Solutions quietly depends on
• Stress-test MySQL systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Drive the Accountability incident postmortem that stops the Colorado Springs outage from recurring

What You'll Bring

• Pattern recognition earned across many technology engagements
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
• At least 10 years of standing behind your own estimates
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• Practical command of Microservices, with bonus points for MySQL

ScaleUp Solutions doesn't sell technology so much as guarantee it, an inclusive distinction the Colorado Springs, CO team takes personally. We hold space for disagreement, then commit fully once the technology call is made.

Combine $177,000 - $251,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at ScaleUp Solutions for years.

Our team checks new Director of Engineering applications every single business day.