Director of Engineering: Mentoring & Platform Architect

Filetwigbay; Rock Hill (SC); On-site; USD 155,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Industrial Excellence Corp in Rock Hill, SC is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead technology initiatives with Next.js, Kafka, and Redis. You will mentor teams, own the technology outcome, and scale the Rock Hill, SC roadmap while guiding incident resolution and design reviews.

The role offers mentorship and growth opportunities as you transition from director into ownership, with a compensation range of $155,000–$247,000 per year, plus comprehensive benefits in a fast-growing tech

Qualifications

• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating technology expertise.
• Integrity to flag your own mistakes first.
• Curiosity that reads the docs before asking.
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one.
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision.
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Creativity-based applications.
• Lead technical design reviews for director technology initiatives.
• Catch the playfully-serious .NET Core regression in staging before it ever reaches Rock Hill customers.
• Re-architect the technology flow so Customer Service handles ten times Rock Hill's current load.
• Translate a napkin idea from Industrial Excellence Corp founders into a Mentoring team-oriented prototype.
• Carry the Kafka platform work that makes Industrial Excellence Corp's next SC expansion boring.
• Own the director Redis workstream that unblocks the rest of Industrial Excellence Corp's Rock Hill, SC roadmap.
• Lead Kafka design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Rock Hill, SC builds them.

Skills

Portfolio samples

Integrity

Curiosity

Prioritization

Decision making

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Next.js

.NET Core

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Industrial Excellence Corp in Rock Hill, SC is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead technology initiatives with Next.js, Kafka, and Redis. You will mentor teams, own the technology outcome, and scale the Rock Hill, SC roadmap while guiding incident resolution and design reviews.

The role offers mentorship and growth opportunities as you transition from director into ownership, with a compensation range of $155,000–$247,000 per year, plus comprehensive benefits in a fast-growing tech