Director of Engineering

Filetwigbay; Yakima (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Director of Engineering in Yakima, WA to frame technology direction and trust the 10 years of experience behind a $159,000 - $232,000 base. The role offers growth into leadership and a clear technology mandate, with room to grow within AbbVie.

As a leader, you will guide tool selection, drive best practices in testing, security, and observability, and mentor teams to improve velocity. AbbVie values pragmatic judgment and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 10 years of technology leadership experience.
• Proven expertise in Express.js and modern tooling.
• Ability to set a technology mandate and lead migrations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Nginx libraries
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Pull AbbVie’s Express.js stack out of the WA region before the migration deadline
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput AbbVie workloads
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements

Skills

Express.js

Tool evaluation

Security

Observability

Developer productivity tooling

Tools

Nginx

Job description

The phrase \"it works on my machine\" makes you wince, which is exactly why you'd make a great Director of Engineering here in Yakima. Frame it as AbbVie trusting your 10 years with $159,000 - $232,000, a technology mandate, and the room to grow into leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Nginx libraries


• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability


• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity


• Pull AbbVie's Express.js stack out of the WA region before the migration deadline


• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput AbbVie workloads


• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements

What You'll Bring

• Clear thinking under the kind of pressure Yakima, WA deadlines bring


• Fluency in Express.js earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial


• A point of view on AbbVie's space, sharpened by your own reading


• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written

AbbVie spent 10 years in the trenches of technology so its clients across Yakima, WA wouldn't have to. We keep ego out of code review and let the Communication argument win on its merits.

Expect a $159,000 - $232,000 base, a growth path with milestones, a mentor who shows up, and benefits that make staying at AbbVie easy.

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