Director of Engineering, Core Experience

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 215,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity opportunities

Health benefits

Remote-first

Unlimited PTO

Annual team offsites

Uber Eats credits

Parental leave

Wellness funds

Career growth

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the Core Experience platform, guiding strategy, architecture, and delivery across multiple product areas. You will mentor Engineering Managers, remove blockers, and drive high-impact initiatives that connect discovery, benefits, and engagement at scale.

You will oversee production systems powering memberships, rewards, and subscriptions, shaping homepages and discovery experiences while fostering AI-enabled practices and strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering leadership including managers and senior ICs, with at least 2 years at Director level or equivalent.
• Proven success leading multi-team orgs for consumer-facing products and shared platforms.
• 3+ years as Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead with strong architectural judgment.
• Experience building or scaling membership platforms and related systems.
• Ownership of platform infrastructure supporting multiple product areas.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Core Experience engineering.
• Mentor Engineering Managers, remove blockers, drive execution.
• Oversee systems powering membership benefits, rewards, and credits.
• Shape homepage, discovery, and engagement experiences for product exploration.
• Build and scale membership management capabilities and subscriptions.
• Develop shared platform services to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
• Support customer operations and cross-functional workflows.
• Partner with Product, Design, Growth, Data, Operations, and Finance on personalized discovery and cross-selling.
• Drive AI-enabled engineering practices across design, implementation, testing, and development workflows.
• Guide architectural decisions for scalable, secure, observable, reliable services.
• Shape org design, hiring, and team structures to meet evolving needs.
• Improve SDLC balancing speed, experimentation, quality, and sustainability.
• Contribute to cross-organizational engineering initiatives and standards.
• Engage directly in hands-on technical discussions when necessary.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Platform architecture

Microservices design

JavaScript/Python

Team mentoring

Tools

React

Node.js

Python

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

RDS

GitLab

Datadog

Amplitude

Snowflake

Material UI

Job description

Accountabilities

- Own the technical strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the Core Experience engineering organization, ensuring members can discover, access, and benefit from shared platform capabilities.

- Lead, mentor, and develop Engineering Managers and their teams, establishing clear priorities, removing organizational and technical blockers, and driving strong execution.

- Oversee the systems that power membership benefits, rewards, credits, and other mechanisms that deliver value across multiple product areas.

- Guide the development of homepage, discovery, and engagement experiences that help members explore products and find relevant offerings.

- Build and scale membership management capabilities, enabling members to manage their subscriptions, benefits, and value across the platform.

- Develop shared platform services that improve consistency across product teams, reduce duplicated effort, and accelerate delivery.

- Support customer operations and service workflows that enable internal teams to provide an effective and seamless member experience.

- Partner with Product, Design, Growth, Data, Operations, and Finance to deliver personalized discovery, cross-selling, and engagement initiatives.

- Drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across design, implementation, testing, and development workflows, identifying opportunities to improve productivity and unlock new product capabilities.

- Guide architectural decisions and system design, ensuring services remain scalable, secure, observable, reliable, and maintainable as the business grows.

- Shape organizational design, hiring plans, talent development, and team structures to support the evolving needs of the engineering organization.

- Continuously improve the software development lifecycle, balancing delivery speed and experimentation with technical quality and long-term sustainability.

- Contribute to cross-organizational engineering initiatives, including architecture standards, technical guilds, and engineering best practices.

- Engage directly in technical discussions or code when hands-on involvement is the most effective way to resolve challenges or drive progress.

Requirements

- At least five years of engineering people leadership experience, including managing managers and senior individual contributors, with at least two years at Director level or equivalent.

- Demonstrated success leading multi-team engineering organizations responsible for consumer-facing products, shared platforms, or both.

- At least three years of prior experience as a Senior Software Engineer or Technical Lead, with strong architectural judgment and the ability to guide senior engineers through complex technical decisions.

- Experience building or scaling membership platforms, rewards programs, credit systems, loyalty mechanisms, or other shared capabilities used across multiple product teams.

- Experience owning or contributing to platform infrastructure and services that support multiple product areas or business units.

- A strong track record of delivering significant product and platform initiatives while balancing speed, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

- Strong understanding of modern web architectures, distributed systems, and microservices, with deep expertise in either backend or frontend system design and working knowledge across the full stack.

- Comfort reviewing and guiding implementations within JavaScript and Python ecosystems, with familiarity with technologies such as React, Node.js, and Python.

- Experience designing, scaling, and operating production services, including performance optimization, reliability engineering, monitoring, and observability.

- Proven ability to drive strategic engineering initiatives, including organizational design, OKR planning, cross-team alignment, and execution in fast-moving environments.

- Experience partnering effectively with Product, Design, Growth, Data, Operations, and Finance teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes.

- Strong interest in AI-assisted software development and the ability to help teams adopt AI tools and workflows thoughtfully, effectively, and responsibly.

- Experience working in a startup or scale-up environment where ambiguity, rapid iteration, and evolving priorities are part of everyday work.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, develop talent, and translate business objectives into clear engineering strategies.

Additional experience that would be an advantage:

- Building membership, loyalty, rewards, subscription, or credit-based systems.

- Developing personalization, recommendation engines, or AI-driven product experiences that improve discovery, cross-selling, and engagement.

- Creating consumer-facing homepages, discovery interfaces, or engagement features.

- Building shared platforms that serve multiple product teams or business areas.

- Developing systems that support customer service and operational workflows.

- Integrating payment providers such as Braintree, Adyen, or similar platforms, particularly for subscriptions, memberships, and checkout experiences.

- Working on consumer platforms with multiple product verticals connected through common experiences.

- Familiarity with Python, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, RDS, GitLab, Datadog, Amplitude, Snowflake, Material UI, and related technologies.

Benefits

- Competitive compensation: For US-based candidates, the advertised annual salary range is $215,000–$316,000, depending on experience, level, and location.

- Equity opportunities: Access to equity options as part of the overall compensation package.

- Comprehensive benefits: Health and other employee benefits available from the first day of employment, subject to the applicable plan terms.

- Remote-first flexibility: Work remotely with flexibility to organize your working hours around your needs and responsibilities.

- Unlimited paid time off: Flexible vacation arrangements, complemented by company-wide recharge days.

- Team connection: Annual team offsites to encourage collaboration, relationship-building, and shared learning.

- Everyday perks: Weekly Uber Eats credits and discounts on travel-related products.

- Family support: Generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan for growing families.

- Wellness and development: Access to wellness budgets, personal development funds, and team-level learning resources.

- Career growth: Opportunities to develop leadership capabilities, influence engineering strategy, and drive meaningful technical and organizational improvements.