Director of Engineering

CBRE Group; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 169,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible schedule

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. in Wilmington, NC seeks a Director of Engineering to own technology outcomes across platforms. The role offers a contract-like package with annual compensation between $169,000 and $231,000, and requires 11+ years of end-to-end technology leadership.

Expect collaboration with Wilmington teams, mentorship, and flexible scheduling. Key duties include API development, tooling, backward compatibility, and data pipeline scalability.

Qualifications

• 11+ years leading end-to-end technology projects.
• Experience in deadline-driven settings at enterprise environments.
• Ability to translate data into clear recommendations.
• Willingness to work in Wilmington, NC.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core CBRE Group products.
• Build internal tooling to improve developer productivity and velocity.
• Keep Spring Boot schemas backward-compatible to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Wire Python APIs to Rust consumers so data lands where Wilmington teams expect it.
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Spring Boot.

Skills

RESTful APIs

Spring Boot

Python

Rust

Data pipelines

Tools

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Help us reimagine how millions of people interact with technology as our newest Director of Engineering in Wilmington, NC. Net it out: contract, $169,000 - $231,000, 11 years, ownership of the technology outcome, and a CBRE Group team that has your back.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core CBRE Group products
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Keep Spring Boot schemas backward-compatible so CBRE Group never forces a breaking upgrade
• Wire Python APIs to Rust consumers so data lands where Wilmington teams expect it
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Spring Boot
• Pair-program tricky Spring Boot edge cases with engineers across Wilmington, NC
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Attention Management libraries

What You'll Bring

• A NC work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions
• Experience thriving in a quietly-excellent, deadline-driven setting like CBRE Group
• Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations
• 11 or more years steering technology projects end to end

CBRE Group spent 11 years in the trenches of technology so its clients across Wilmington, NC wouldn't have to. We measure Director of Engineering success by problems solved, not hours logged at your Wilmington, NC desk.

Our CBRE Group offer leans on substance: $169,000 - $231,000, mentorship, benefits, and a flexible schedule that respects Wilmington life.

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