Director of Engineering - Part-Time with Full Ownership

Media Innovation Corp; Saint Cloud (MN); On-site; USD 171,000 - 252,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy over schedule

Growth budget

Professional development support

Job summary

Media Innovation Corp in St. Cloud, MN is seeking a Director of Engineering to own end-to-end tech initiatives. The role emphasizes ownership, autonomy to set your schedule, and driving critical platform improvements in a part-time capacity.

You will lead architectural decisions, coordinate with product/design, and ensure stable deployments using modern tools. The position highlights a strong focus on performance metrics, rapid learning, and building a high-trust team culture while delivering

Qualifications

• Owns projects from concept to delivery.
• Thrives in a high-trust, deadline-driven setting.
• Learns new tech quickly and applies it effectively.
• Able to build rapport and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Drive the Negotiation incident postmortem to prevent outages
• Containerize apps and manage deployments with Redis and Swift
• Keep the Critical Thinking build pipeline green for reliable deployments
• Carry an oddball-friendly Critical Thinking feature through code freeze without destabilizing systems
• Track and report on KPIs for technology services
• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production

Skills

Ownership mindset

Bias toward action

High-trust environment

Relationship building

Quick learner

Tools

Vue.js

Redis

Kafka

Swift

Docker

Job description

Media Innovation Corp in St. Cloud, MN is seeking a Director of Engineering to own end-to-end tech initiatives. The role emphasizes ownership, autonomy to set your schedule, and driving critical platform improvements in a part-time capacity.

You will lead architectural decisions, coordinate with product/design, and ensure stable deployments using modern tools. The position highlights a strong focus on performance metrics, rapid learning, and building a high-trust team culture while delivering