Director of Engineering

Media Innovation Corp; Saint Cloud (MN); On-site; USD 171,000 - 252,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy over schedule

Growth budget

Professional development support

Job summary

Media Innovation Corp in St. Cloud, MN is seeking a Director of Engineering to own end-to-end tech initiatives. The role emphasizes ownership, autonomy to set your schedule, and driving critical platform improvements in a part-time capacity.

You will lead architectural decisions, coordinate with product/design, and ensure stable deployments using modern tools. The position highlights a strong focus on performance metrics, rapid learning, and building a high-trust team culture while delivering

Qualifications

• Owns projects from concept to delivery.
• Thrives in a high-trust, deadline-driven setting.
• Learns new tech quickly and applies it effectively.
• Able to build rapport and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Drive the Negotiation incident postmortem to prevent outages
• Containerize apps and manage deployments with Redis and Swift
• Keep the Critical Thinking build pipeline green for reliable deployments
• Carry an oddball-friendly Critical Thinking feature through code freeze without destabilizing systems
• Track and report on KPIs for technology services
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production

Skills

Ownership mindset

Bias toward action

High-trust environment

Relationship building

Quick learner

Tools

Vue.js

Redis

Kafka

Swift

Docker

Job description

12 years of wrestling with PostgreSQL taught you what good code feels like, and we want that instinct on our Director of Engineering team. What makes this Media Innovation Corp role different is the ownership; the $171,000 - $252,000 and part-time hours are just the entry fee.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Drive the Negotiation incident postmortem that stops the St. Cloud outage from recurring
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Redis and Swift
• Keep the Critical Thinking build pipeline green so St. Cloud deploys never wait on a red light
• Carry an oddball-friendly Critical Thinking feature through code freeze without breaking Media Innovation Corp stability
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production

What You'll Bring

• Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery
• A quietly-relentless bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• Experience thriving in a high-trust, deadline-driven setting like Media Innovation Corp
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively

At Media Innovation Corp, a gently-demanding team in St. Cloud, MN has spent years proving that Vue.js and Redis belong in the same conversation. Growth budgets at Media Innovation Corp are generous because a sharper Kafka you means a stronger team.

Media Innovation Corp offers $171,000 - $252,000 plus the autonomy to set your own schedule and the support to keep growing.

The listing went live again hours ago for the part-time position.

Bring 11 of grit or a fresh perspective; either way, this Director of Engineering role wants you.