Director of Engineering, Core - AI-Driven SaaS Platform

M3; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

M3 is a leading provider of hospitality software delivering cloud-based tools for hotel accounting, financial reporting, labor management, payroll, and business intelligence. Built by hoteliers for hoteliers, M3 empowers operators to streamline back‑office operations, reduce costs, and gain real‑time insights across North America and beyond.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering, Core, to lead the engineering organization, define the technology roadmap, and oversee scalable, secure software

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering organizations in SaaS or cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to define and execute technology roadmaps.
• Strong governance, security, and compliance capabilities.
• Excellent communication with executives and stakeholders.
• Mentor and grow engineering managers and individual contributors.

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary leadership and strategic direction for the engineering organization, developing and implementing the engineering roadmap in alignment with company goals.
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable, secure, and high‑quality .NET-based applications and services.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, collaboration, and technical excellence within the engineering team.
• Build and mentor a high‑performing engineering team, including engineering managers, leads, and individual contributors; promote professional growth and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with Product, Design, QA, and Data Engineering teams to deliver features on time and on budget that meet customer needs and drive business outcomes.
• Govern the SDLC processes, agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and technical standards across teams.
• Champion best practices in software engineering, including agentic workflows, code reviews, automated testing, observability, and cloud‑native development.
• Drive innovation through the adoption of AI technologies, cloud platforms (preferably Azure), PaaS, IaaS and modern engineering approaches.
• Lead a phased agentic development roadmap, from AI‑assisted research and IDE copilots to prompt‑based code generation, AI pair programming, and workflow‑aware agents.
• Establish governance, enablement, prompt/playbook standards, human review practices, and productivity and quality metrics for responsible AI‑assisted development.
• Evaluate, introduce, and implement new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance platform performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, including security and regulatory requirements for accounting software within hospitality.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure cloud

CI/CD

DevOps practices

AI development tools

Job description

M3 is a leading provider of hospitality software delivering cloud-based tools for hotel accounting, financial reporting, labor management, payroll, and business intelligence. Built by hoteliers for hoteliers, M3 empowers operators to streamline back‑office operations, reduce costs, and gain real‑time insights across North America and beyond.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering, Core, to lead the engineering organization, define the technology roadmap, and oversee scalable, secure software