Director of Engineering

Energy Innovation Corp; South Bend (IN); On-site; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Learning stipends

Flexible culture

Job summary

Media Excellence Group in South Bend, IN seeks a Director of Engineering with deep expertise in distributed systems and React-oriented leadership. This senior role commands a salary range and equity, with a flexible culture designed to empower teams and deliver reliable production-grade platforms.

You will own the full lifecycle of technology systems, architect Azure-based solutions, and drive deployments while mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Document work promptly and clearly
• 11+ years of leadership/engineering experience
• Growth mindset with openness to feedback
• South Bend grounding or ability to relocate quickly
• Comfort owning variable project metrics
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and related tooling
• Experience using GitLab CI in a technology setting

Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements
• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Networking and Python
• Resurrect flaky Python tests until the South Bend, IN suite is trustworthy
• Translate technology compliance rules into guardrails baked into the build
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Sketch the Microsoft Azure architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing

Skills

Azure architecture

Python

GitLab CI

Containerization

Architecture review

Tools

GitLab CI

Job description

Ready to work on real distributed systems? Media Excellence Group is adding a Director of Engineering skilled in React to the technology team. The center of gravity here is ownership — $138,000 - $207,000 and a temporary schedule orbit it, and 12 years gets you in the door.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively


• Containerize applications and manage deployments with Networking and Python


• Resurrect flaky Python tests until the South Bend, IN suite is trustworthy again


• Translate technology compliance rules into Empathy guardrails baked into the build


• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production


• Sketch the Microsoft Azure architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing

What You'll Bring

• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten


• 11 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it


• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback


• A South Bend grounding, or the adaptability to plant roots quickly


• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you


• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and related tools or frameworks


• 11+ years putting GitLab CI to work in a technology setting

Media Excellence Group is a quietly-ambitious South Bend, IN company born from the belief that technology tools should respect the people using them. We prize follow-through: when someone here commits to something, the team can count on it.

At Media Excellence Group, $138,000 - $207,000 comes with equity, learning stipends, and a flexible culture built around trust and growth.

This Director of Engineering posting is fresh, active, and open for business right now.

Bring your Microsoft Azure, your questions, and your ambition; we'll bring the rest at Media Excellence Group.