Director of Engineering

Wealth Partners; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 189,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freelance arrangement

On-site role in Frederick, MD

Competitive salary

Job summary

Wealth Partners Corp in Frederick, MD seeks a freelance Director of Engineering fluent in RabbitMQ to own hands-on architecture and drive high-throughput systems. You will lead critical infra work across Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible, guiding teams and stakeholders while delivering reliable, scalable platforms for our business.

This role offers a competitive annual salary between $189,000 and $255,000, with direct impact on performance, reliability, and cross-functional project

Qualifications

• Ability to handle complex infra with minimal surprises.
• Hands-on engineering experience with strong debugging skills.
• Proactive mentoring and teamwork mindset.

Responsibilities

• Decode the undocumented Docker service nobody at Wealth Partners remembers writing.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Wealth Partners workloads.
• Design RabbitMQ APIs other Frederick, MD teams will still thank you for next year.
• Replace the brittle Emotional Intelligence hack with a Kubernetes solution that survives Frederick scale.
• Apply Terraform and Kubernetes to solve hands-dirty engineering challenges.
• Map data flow across Wealth Partners’s Ansible services and spot the leaks.
• Walk technology stakeholders through Docker tradeoffs in language Wealth Partners execs grasp.
• Stand up observability so Wealth Partners sees failures before customers in MD do.

Skills

Reliability

Hands-on engineering

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Freelance adeptness

Tools

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

SQL databases

Job description

We’re opening a freelance Director of Engineering role for an engineer fluent in RabbitMQ and allergic to undocumented surprises. This director role pairs a $189,000 - $255,000 salary with hands‑on ownership, a collaborative team, and clear opportunities to level up.

Key Responsibilities

• Decode the undocumented Docker service nobody at Wealth Partners remembers writing
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Wealth Partners workloads
• Design RabbitMQ APIs other Frederick, MD teams will still thank you for next year
• Replace the brittle Emotional Intelligence hack with a Kubernetes solution that survives Frederick scale
• Apply Terraform and Kubernetes to solve hands-dirty engineering challenges
• Map data flow across Wealth Partners’s Ansible services and spot the leaks
• Walk technology stakeholders through Docker tradeoffs in language Wealth Partners execs grasp
• Stand up observability so Wealth Partners sees failures before customers in MD do

What You’ll Bring

• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• Hands‑on technology experience that holds up to follow‑up questions
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Comfort with freelance arrangements and the rhythms of a detail‑focused workplace
• A teammate’s instinct to unblock others before yourself
• Equal parts Webpack depth and RabbitMQ curiosity

The candidly‑kind culture at Wealth Partners is what keeps our Frederick, MD team building remarkable things together. Feedback flows in every direction at Wealth Partners, from the newest hire to the people signing the $189,000 - $255,000 checks.

The Director of Engineering role earns $189,000 - $255,000 and opens doors to cross‑functional projects that accelerate your Webpack and RabbitMQ growth.

We are filling this Director of Engineering seat now, with onboarding planned for the near term.