Director of Engineering

Egreenservices; Fairbanks (AK); On-site; USD 209,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

CloudWave Technologies in Fairbanks, AK is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead a small, high-impact team. The role emphasizes REST API leadership and a path to GraphQL, with a strong focus on observability, code quality, and delivering reliable software for customers in Alaska.

The position offers a competitive salary and a trajectory that grows with experience and impact, plus career development support and flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership experience (10+ years)
• Strong design and API skills (REST/GraphQL)
• Proven ability to reduce technical debt and lead refactors

Responsibilities

• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Stand up observability so CloudWave Technologies sees failures before customers in AK
• Ship Empathy fixes to CloudWave Technologies customers in Fairbanks, AK the same day they report them
• Bridge Empathy and Jenkins so the two halves of CloudWave Technologies's platform finally talk
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Own the Unit Testing release that Fairbanks leadership has circled on the calendar
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with CloudWave Technologies's growing user base

Skills

REST API

GraphQL

Jenkins

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

CloudWave Technologies keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Fairbanks, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Director of Engineering. The Director of Engineering role rewards range — REST API, Initiative, 10 years — with $209,000 - $278,000 and a seat that grows beyond it.

Key Responsibilities

• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Stand up observability so CloudWave Technologies sees failures before customers in AK do
• Ship Empathy fixes to CloudWave Technologies customers in Fairbanks, AK the same day they report them
• Bridge Empathy and Jenkins so the two halves of CloudWave Technologies's platform finally talk
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Own the Unit Testing release that Fairbanks leadership has circled on the calendar
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with CloudWave Technologies's growing user base

What You'll Bring

• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• Real curiosity about why CloudWave Technologies customers do what they do
• Director fluency in REST API, with GraphQL on your roadmap
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one

There's a reason technology leaders keep calling CloudWave Technologies: this trust-the-team Fairbanks, AK team simply refuses to ship anything mediocre. We default to writing things down so the whole technology team stays in the loop without endless meetings.

We reward customer-centric contributors with $209,000 - $278,000, flexible hours, wellness perks, and meaningful career development support.

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