Director of Engineering

dynamism; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

dynamism in New York is looking for a Director of Engineering, Product to lead a small but high-impact team building our city infrastructure platform. You will stay hands-on in code while guiding priorities with the founder and connecting delivery to real-world outcomes.

You will own incidents, tech debt decisions, hiring standards, and collaborate with customer success to turn deployment lessons into better software.

Qualifications

• Led engineers in a small or scaling product company.
• Continue writing, reviewing, testing, and debugging production code.
• Built structure that helps while keeping a team close to users.
• Willing to work in New York in person 4 days per week.
• Able to align product delivery with customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and release standards.
• Build and review frontend, backend, and data changes.
• Own incidents and technical debt decisions.
• Collaborate with customer success to turn deployment lessons into improvements.
• Decide when to experiment and how to validate outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Production code

Frontend development

Backend development

Geospatial data

Tools

React

TypeScript

Mapbox

Express

GIS

Job description

Director of Engineering, Product

Base salary: $200K to $300K plus equity
Location: New York, 4 days in person | Full time

The work you lead here can show up in a city budget and on a repaired street. Port Lavaca, Texas, has used the platform for capital improvement planning, while Covington, Kentucky, is bringing it into pavement planning. This is a Director role for someone who still wants to build and whose decisions will be visible in the product, the team, and the communities it serves.

We are hiring for a company building the operating layer for the infrastructure cities maintain. Roads are the starting point: imagery, vehicle data, GIS records, engineering documents, and local knowledge become a living map of assets and their condition. Public works teams can use that evidence to plan capital, explain priorities, and manage work. The longer ambition reaches sidewalks, drainage, signs, bridges, and other public assets.

The product has customers, revenue, and funding, while the engineering choices that define the next phase are still open. You would join a world-class engineering team that includes a founding software engineer formerly at Brex and a machine learning engineer formerly at X, Google's moonshot factory.

What you'll own

Lead a small engineering group while staying in the code. Partner with the founder on priorities, help engineers make good trade-offs, and connect product delivery to how local governments actually plan and complete work.

• Set technical direction and release standards without slowing customer learning.
• Build and review important frontend, backend, and data changes yourself.
• Own incidents, technical debt decisions, hiring standards, and team development.
• Work with customer success to turn deployment lessons into better software.

Problems you'll solve

Cities need software that is fast enough for daily work and dependable enough for public spending decisions. You will decide when to experiment, when to add validation, and how to make the team accountable for outcomes after a release.

Candidate fit

• You have led engineers in a small or scaling product company.
• You still write, review, test, and debug production code.
• You have built structure where it helps while keeping a team close to users.
• You can work in New York in person 4 days per week.
• Base salary: $200K to $300K, plus founding team equity.
• Full time, New York, 4 days in person.
• Work directly with the founder and a small engineering team.
• Core stack: React, TypeScript, Mapbox, Express, geospatial data, and practical infrastructure.
• Visa sponsorship has not been confirmed; please ask if this affects your search.