Director of Engineering — Scale C# & Cloud Infra

Energy Innovation Corp; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 187,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

VentureLab seeks a Director of Engineering to accelerate its C# infrastructure in Saint Paul, MN. You will bring candor-rich critical thinking and 12+ years of experience to lead a fast-moving team while shaping architecture and code quality.

The role offers an internship cadence in a Saint Paul-based operation with a salary between $187,000 and $277,000, plus coaching for gRPC and growth opportunities to move at your own pace.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience mentoring engineers and code reviews.
• Ability to negotiate tradeoffs with product teams.
• Experience migrating on-prem services to cloud-native architectures.
• Strong ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate Spring Boot tradeoffs with product when timelines collide.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture.
• Lead REST API design reviews that catch costly mistakes before development.
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Replace brittle REST API with scalable solutions.
• Build Docker dashboards for visibility of metrics.
• Map data flow across Spring Boot services and identify leaks.

Skills

Critical thinking

Team player

Mentor engineers

Ownership

REST API design

Spring Boot

C#

gRPC

Docker

Cloud migration

Tools

REST API

Docker

Spring Boot

gRPC

Job description

VentureLab seeks a Director of Engineering to accelerate its C# infrastructure in Saint Paul, MN. You will bring candor-rich critical thinking and 12+ years of experience to lead a fast-moving team while shaping architecture and code quality.

The role offers an internship cadence in a Saint Paul-based operation with a salary between $187,000 and $277,000, plus coaching for gRPC and growth opportunities to move at your own pace.