Director of Engineering — Lead Scalable Networking & APIs

Startupforge; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Generous benefits

Local flexibility

Job summary

StartupForge, based in Shreveport, LA, is seeking a Director of Engineering to translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable software. The role offers a salary range of $131,000–$193,000 with a technology mandate and a culture that treats ownership as the default.

You will build networking tooling, mentor teams, and own architectural decisions in a temporary leadership position that shapes product delivery for the Shreveport market.

Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on engineering leadership experience.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity with incomplete briefs.
• Practical CI/CD skills from real-world projects.
• Confident in making and defending technology decisions.
• Ability to analyze data and translate findings into recommendations.
• Comfort owning tech decisions in the LA market.

Responsibilities

• Build the Networking tooling that makes every other Shreveport engineer faster.
• Translate a napkin idea into a Tailwind CSS prototype.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the StartupForge stack.
• Untangle networking dependency knots that have slowed releases.
• Carry features from whiteboard sketches to Shreveport production.
• Build Networking self-service tools to reduce ticketing.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core StartupForge products.

Skills

Leadership

CI/CD

Data interpretation

Decision making

Ambiguity navigation

LA market knowledge

Job description

StartupForge, based in Shreveport, LA, is seeking a Director of Engineering to translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable software. The role offers a salary range of $131,000–$193,000 with a technology mandate and a culture that treats ownership as the default.

You will build networking tooling, mentor teams, and own architectural decisions in a temporary leadership position that shapes product delivery for the Shreveport market.