Director of Engineering

Energy Innovation Corp; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 187,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

VentureLab seeks a Director of Engineering to accelerate its C# infrastructure in Saint Paul, MN. You will bring candor-rich critical thinking and 12+ years of experience to lead a fast-moving team while shaping architecture and code quality.

The role offers an internship cadence in a Saint Paul-based operation with a salary between $187,000 and $277,000, plus coaching for gRPC and growth opportunities to move at your own pace.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience mentoring engineers and code reviews.
• Ability to negotiate tradeoffs with product teams.
• Experience migrating on-prem services to cloud-native architectures.
• Strong ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate Spring Boot tradeoffs with product when timelines collide.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture.
• Lead REST API design reviews that catch costly mistakes before development.
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Replace brittle REST API with scalable solutions.
• Build Docker dashboards for visibility of metrics.
• Map data flow across Spring Boot services and identify leaks.

Skills

Critical thinking

Team player

Mentor engineers

Ownership

REST API design

Spring Boot

C#

gRPC

Docker

Cloud migration

Tools

REST API

Docker

Spring Boot

gRPC

Job description

Think of this Director of Engineering job as a standing invitation to make VentureLab's C# infrastructure faster, simpler, and less scary. Bring candor-rich Critical Thinking and 10 years to Saint Paul, and the return is $187,000 - $277,000, an internship schedule, and influence that grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Negotiate Spring Boot tradeoffs with product when VentureLab timelines and reality collide
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Lead REST API design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Saint Paul, MN builds them
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Replace the brittle REST API hack with a Persuasion solution that survives Saint Paul scale
• Build Docker dashboards so VentureLab's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers
• Map data flow across VentureLab's Spring Boot services and spot the leaks

What You'll Bring

• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit
• Comfort with the internship cadence of a Saint Paul-based operation
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• 12+ years that left you with strong instincts and few ilus
• The judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time

Half the technology platforms in MN quietly depend on something VentureLab built in Saint Paul with impact-driven care. Disagreement is welcome here, but once we decide, the whole VentureLab team rows in the same direction.

What we put on the table: $187,000 - $277,000, coaching for your gRPC, benefits worth having, and freedom to grow at your own pace.

Demand on the technology team has us moving fast to fill this seat.

Come find out why people stay at VentureLab once they get here; the Director of Engineering door is open.