Director of Engineering — Remote, Hands-On Leader

SmartCommerce; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Remote stipend

Fully remote US

Annual bonus up to 10%

Job summary

SmartCommerce seeks a Director of Engineering to lead a 10+ person team building a full funnel shoppable commerce platform. You will code ~70% of time, guiding architecture from PHP to Node.js/TypeScript, and participate in on-call production support.

Work with Product, Customer Success and DevOps to drive CI/CD, incident response, scalability and SOC 2 readiness, while advancing AI-enabled automation to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience at director level
• Direct management of 10+ engineers and managers
• Proven experience with enterprise integrations and APIs
• Production systems at scale with on-call and incident management
• Hands-on PHP and Node.js with TS, migration experience
• Strong SQL and performance tuning
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar compliance
• Clear communicator to executives and product/partners

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering team, hiring and coaching managers and engineers
• Deliver predictable software roadmaps, own CI/CD, releases, and incident responses
• Own end-to-end product delivery from roadmap to production support
• Oversee retailer and partner integrations with onboarding and monitoring standards
• Set technical direction, architecture, and migration path from PHP to Node.js
• Collaborate with DevOps and Product to align on SLAs and infrastructure costs
• Explore AI-assisted automation for repetitive tasks

Skills

Team leadership

Software architecture

PHP

Node.js

TypeScript

SQL

SOC 2

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring & incident tooling

Job description

SmartCommerce seeks a Director of Engineering to lead a 10+ person team building a full funnel shoppable commerce platform. You will code ~70% of time, guiding architecture from PHP to Node.js/TypeScript, and participate in on-call production support.

Work with Product, Customer Success and DevOps to drive CI/CD, incident response, scalability and SOC 2 readiness, while advancing AI-enabled automation to improve efficiency.