Director of Engineering - Growth-Minded Tech Refactor Lead

InnovateNow; Harrisonburg (VA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

InnovateNow in Harrisonburg, VA seeks a Director of Engineering to lead refactoring efforts, define testing and quality standards, and drive critical incident postmortems. You will own the technical roadmap, partner with teams, and ship timely AWS fixes for local customers.

Ideal candidates show ownership, strategic judgment, and a collaborative approach to scaling a growing platform from its Harrisonburg base.

Qualifications

• Growth mindset and openness to feedback.
• Director-caliber judgment about when to escape and when to absorb.
• Scrappy problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission.
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities.
• Collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame.

Responsibilities

• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early.
• Drive the Change Management incident postmortem to stop outages from recurring.
• Ship AWS fixes to customers in Harrisonburg, VA the same day they report them.
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions.

Skills

Growth mindset

Judgment

Problem solving

Ownership

Collaboration

Job description

InnovateNow in Harrisonburg, VA seeks a Director of Engineering to lead refactoring efforts, define testing and quality standards, and drive critical incident postmortems. You will own the technical roadmap, partner with teams, and ship timely AWS fixes for local customers.

Ideal candidates show ownership, strategic judgment, and a collaborative approach to scaling a growing platform from its Harrisonburg base.