Director of Software Engineering

Altura, LLC; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Altura, LLC is seeking a Director of Software Engineering in Irvine, CA to lead and mentor a software team building analytics and building-performance solutions. You will shape strategy, drive AI-enabled development, and oversee platform architecture, data workflows, and secure integrations with systems like SkySpark and Procore.

You will partner with product, cybersecurity, and leadership to deliver scalable, high-quality software that improves energy and financial performance for clients

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• 15+ years in full-stack software engineering with modern tech.
• Proven ability to translate stakeholder vision into engineering execution.
• Strong data architecture skills (relational, time-series, NoSQL, graph).
• Experience leading teams through AI-driven development transformations.
• Experience integrating diverse software systems via APIs.

Responsibilities

• Act as dedicated people manager and player-coach to maximize team potential and outcomes.
• Champion Product Engineering mindset and AI tooling to boost velocity and quality.
• Translate product vision into multi-year technical architecture roadmaps.
• Oversee Altura's software platform and analytics applications.
• Direct the evolution of Altura's core data layer and tooling with emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and share innovations.
• Ensure secure, reliable integrations with key third-party systems (e.g., SkySpark, Procore, BIM tools).
• Contribute technically in pre-sales and client engagements and help market positioning.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Full-stack development

AI-driven development

Platform integrations

Data architectures

Internal partnerships

Tools

TypeScript/Javascript

ReactJS

Python

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Playwright

SkySpark

Procore REST APIs

Primavera P6

Autodesk Revit

Job description

About Altura Altura, LLC is a technology-driven engineering services firm focused on improving energy, environmental, and financial performance across our clients’ organizations. Altura is not your typical software company. We are an innovative consulting subsidiary of one of the country’s most respected construction companies with deep expertise in deriving value from building analytics software. Our solutions scale from highly complex individual buildings to national real estate portfolios, leveraging core skills in software engineering, building systems and controls engineering, IT/OT, project implementation, data analytics, and financial analysis to provide major impact for our clients.

About the Role

As the Director of Software Engineering at Altura, you will be operating with close connections to our customers and users; you will be a strategist and a doer; you will make tangible impacts on how buildings are built and operated across the country. If you are seeking stability over startup chaos and love owning the entire development stack, this is your place. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with dedicated people management skills to drive software engineering excellence. Working in close collaboration with product, cybersecurity and business leadership, you will translate strategic roadmaps into scalable technical solutions, relying on internal domain experts and trusted clients to define software needs. Crucially, this leader serves as a mentor and player-coach, actively managing our software team to maximize their potential, performance, and outcomes while directly contributing to the product. We are seeking an innovative leader who is fully adapted to AI-driven development and is ready to transform how technology shapes building performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Execution: Act as a dedicated people manager and player-coach, fostering a high-retention culture of collaborative problem-solving and technical excellence. Lead by example by actively contributing to development work while maximizing individual potential and driving high-quality team outcomes.
• Product Engineering Mindset & Innovation: Champion the adoption of a Product Engineering mindset, mentoring developers to think holistically about the end-user experience and broader product strategy. Lead the integration of modern AI development tools to boost team velocity, automate routine coding tasks, and enhance overall engineering quality.
• Strategic Technical Leadership & Product Alignment: Partner closely with Product leadership to translate product vision, strategy and market needs into a multi-year technical architecture roadmap. Ensure the platform's scalability, reliability, and maintainability directly support the company's strategic goals.
• Software Platform & Integration Management: Oversee the development of Altura's software platform, and suite of Altura Analytics applications and development environments. Partner with Information Technology & Cybersecurity leadership to ensure secure infrastructure, optimal deployment strategies, and robust maintenance of the platform and data analytics environments.
• Data Architecture & Innovation: Direct the architectural evolution of Altura's core data layer. Drive software architecture and tooling to integrate emerging technologies (AI/ML, IoT, advanced analytics) that transform how building performance consulting is delivered.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Analytics Solutions/Delivery and other Altura Service Directors, relying on their domain expertise to define technical requirements and harvest project-level innovations into organization-wide capabilities.
• System Interoperability: Ensure seamless technical integration between custom Altura applications and key third-party systems and data models (e.g., SkySpark, Procore REST APIs, Primavera P6, Autodesk Construction Cloud/Revit, FacilityGrid).
• Executive Communication: Serve as a high-level technical consultant during select pre-sales and client engagements, demonstrating Altura's competitive technology advantage. Collaborate with the Director of Marketing to translate technical capabilities into compelling market positioning.

Required Qualifications

• Proven Engineering Leadership: 5+ years of experience directly managing software teams, with a demonstrated track record of building high-retention, collaborative cultures
• Technical Ecosystem Mastery: 15+ years of experience in full stack software engineering with demonstrable expertise in modern development, languages, infrastructure/DevOps and quality (e.g. TypeScript/Javascript, ReactJS, Python, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Playwright, etc.).
• Internal Partnership: Proven ability to build deep trust with internal stakeholders, relying on domain experts to define product strategy and successfully translating their vision into engineering execution.
• Advanced Data Architectures: Strong competency in designing and scaling diverse data architectures for highly technical software (e.g., relational, time-series, NoSQL, graph-based), to model complex system relationships and engineering processes.
• AI-Driven Development: Fully adapted to modern AI-driven development methods, utilizing cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate engineering velocity and elevate code quality. Experience leading teams through this transformation to maximize impact
• Platform Integrations: Proven ability to architect cohesive workflows by integrating diverse software systems, utilizing RESTful APIs.

Desired Qualifications

• Product Launch & Scaling: Proven track record of leading the technical strategy to bring a major new software product to market, successfully navigating the zero-to-one lifecycle, and architecting the platform to support rapid commercial scaling and long-term growth.
• Domain Adaptability & Experience: Working knowledge of SkySpark or other commercial building analytics tools and data science techniques.
• Note: If you do not have direct past experience with SkySpark or related tools, a proven track record of quickly adapting to new, complex technical domains is required.
• Industry Workflows: Experience with construction management (Procore), scheduling (Primavera P6), BIM (Revit), and commissioning tools.
• Vendor Management: Experience managing relationships with key software technology vendors and evaluating new development tools or platforms.

Location: Irvine, CA (preferred) or Oakland, CA

About Altura

Altura is proud to offer a generous total compensation package that includes base salary, incentive compensation plan, and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health benefits (medical and dental plans), paid time off (vacation, sick and holiday), financial benefits (retirement plan with both match and annual company contribution, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and commuter benefits). Additional benefits for regular full-time employees include fitness reimbursement, healthcare and dependent care pre-tax spending plans, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare and family support benefits, EAP, work life assistance and a holiday contribution program. The base salary range for this position is $190,000-$220,000 annually. Placement within the range is determined by business factors including specialized skills, years of relevant experience, and specific technical evaluations. #LI-Hybrid Altura, LLC is a professional services firm with a mission to improve energy, environmental, and financial performance for clients using a data-driven, people-centric approach that delivers immediate and lasting value. Altura has deep expertise in deriving value from data systems, scaling from individual buildings to real estate portfolios. We leverage core skills in engineering, energy analysis, and building automation system design & commissioning to make smart building performance a reality for our clients. We have offices in California and Washington state and we support remote employees working across the country. Altura is an affiliate of Clark Construction Group.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Clark Construction Group, LLC (and its subsidiaries and affiliates) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Clark promotes a drug-free workplace. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA). Clark is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please [e-mail] call [phone] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Authorization to Work

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis in order to be considered.