Director of Engineering

Kohls; Saint Petersburg (FL); Remote; USD 188,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Kohls is seeking a remote Director of Engineering to drive REST API strategy and ensure high-quality backend systems. The role emphasizes mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and ownership of data integrity across PostgreSQL stores, with flexibility for remote work and periodic commuting to St.

Petersburg, FL. The ideal candidate brings deep Laravel experience, strong accountability, and a track record of shaping coding standards while guiding teams through complex migrations and on-call

Qualifications

• Experience with REST APIs and modern backend systems.
• Proven Laravel results, ideally in St. Petersburg, FL.
• Strong data integrity and PostgreSQL experience.
• Willingness to commute to St. Petersburg, FL or work flexibly.

Responsibilities

• Pull Kohls's Initiative stack out of the FL region before the migration deadline.
• Drive the Express.js incident postmortem that stops the St. Petersburg outage from recurring.
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements.
• Mentor the director cohort through their first real Google Cloud on-call at Kohls.
• Own data integrity across Kohls's PostgreSQL stores so St. Petersburg numbers never lie.
• Read the Initiative stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root.
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects.
• Set the Initiative coding standards the rest of Kohls engineering follows.

Skills

REST API

Laravel

Accountability

Reliability

Tools

PostgreSQL

Google Cloud

Express.js

Job description

At Kohls, the best Director of Engineering isn't the one who writes the most code but the one whose REST API decisions age the gracefully. Lay it bare: remote Director of Engineering, $188,000 - $264,000, 10 years of Webpack, and a seat where Kohls decisions get shaped.

Key Responsibilities

• Pull Kohls's Initiative stack out of the FL region before the migration deadline
• Drive the Express.js incident postmortem that stops the St. Petersburg outage from recurring
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements
• Mentor the director cohort through their first real Google Cloud on-call at Kohls
• Own data integrity across Kohls's PostgreSQL stores so St. Petersburg numbers never lie
• Read the Initiative stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects
• Set the Initiative coding standards the rest of Kohls engineering follows

What You'll Bring

• The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating
• A point of view on Kohls's space, sharpened by your own reading
• Proven Laravel results, ideally seasoned in St. Petersburg, FL
• Real REST API chops, plus the Accountability curiosity to keep growing
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• Willingness to commute to St. Petersburg, FL or work flexibly as needed

Long before technology was fashionable, Kohls was already solving it for businesses scattered across FL. Respect for your craft and your life outside it sits at the core of how Kohls operates.

With $188,000 - $264,000 as the anchor, expect mentorship, a benefits package worth bragging about, and the latitude to work remote-first.

Pulled forward to the top of the queue today, so your timing is good.