Director of Software Engineering

Ramsey Solutions; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 117,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance with HSA

401(k) with 4% match

Wellness & grocery reimbursement

On-campus cafe

Dependent care FSA

Cultural activities

Job summary

Ramsey Solutions is seeking an accomplished engineering leader to own the technical vision for Ramsey Connect, an AI-powered pro directory. You’ll lead a small, fast-moving squad, partner with executive leadership, and drive hiring, growth, and technical health.

Hands-on coding remains part of your role as AI augments the workflow. Ideal candidates have prior director-level experience, can communicate strategy to the executive team, and are excited about building scalable systems using

Qualifications

• Led engineering on a consumer-facing web product through growth or scale.
• Experience as a director-level engineering leader owning decisions.
• Able to write code and discuss technical strategy with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Scope epics with product and design, providing the technical answer before commit.
• Translate strategy into architecture decisions for design systems and data models.
• Build and grow the engineering team with clear standards and hiring goals.
• Evolve AI-augmented development workflows and tooling for the team.
• Guard the design system and ensure scalable routing and backend architecture.
• Decide when to build custom components vs. reuse existing ones.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hands-on coding

AI-augmented development

Frontend frameworks

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Job description

Description

Team: Ramsey Connect

Please note that applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Location: Franklin, TN-on-site, relocation assistance available, flexible schedules available

Salary: $116,500- $200,000/year* + profit sharing + benefits

*Range depends on skill level and overall experience.

A Little Bit About Us:

You might know us from our founder and CEO, Dave Ramsey, who's given no-nonsense money advice on the radio since 1992. Three decades later, Ramsey Solutions is a household name in personal finance, with a mission to change the toxic money culture for good.

Our Mission: Ramsey Solutions provides biblically based, commonsense education and empowerment that give HOPE to everyone in every walk of life.

Here’s a Taste of Our Benefits:

• Health insurance (includes plans eligible for an HSA—with a company match up to $500!)
• 401(k) retirement plan with 4% match/company contribution
• Annual wellness, counseling and grocery membership reimbursement
• On-campus cafe with subsidized pricing for breakfast, lunch and coffee bar
• Dependent care FSA
• Tons of cultural activities, like weekly devotional, leadership development courses, Battle of the Bands, and one epic Christmas party!

Where and How You’d Work:

Ramsey Solutions Headquarters is located just outside of Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee. We value our strong, unified company culture because we believe the best work is done together. That’s why all of our team members work on-site under the same roof. But work-life balance is also important to us, so we offer flexible work schedules to take the stress out of appointments, family obligations and other needs that may pop up.

While every team member has a designated workspace (with an electronic sit-stand desk), our campus was designed to house a variety of unique work and play zones (e.g., quiet library space, coffee bar/lounge areas, recreational game zone, and outside/patio work and break areas).

What You'll Do in This Role:

You'll own the technical vision for Ramsey Connect, an AI-powered pro directory that maps Ramsey's principles to vetted pros across the Trusted ecosystem, connecting the millions of people living the Ramsey plan with the professionals who help them execute it. As the engineering leader for a small, high-velocity squad, you'll stand beside the Senior Director of Product as a true partner and work directly with executive leadership to set product direction and the technical strategy to get there. This is a leadership role: you'll own hiring, growth, and the health of the engineering team, and you'll be the person the product leader turns to when something breaks, something’s impossible, or something’s about to ship that shouldn’t. You'll stay hands-on, writing code yourself when it helps, while AI-augmented development, already central to how this team builds, does a real share of the implementation. You'll shape how the team puts that leverage to work, calibrating where AI can move fast and where a careful human hand still matters most.

You're probably a Match If:

• You've led engineering on a consumer-facing web product through a critical growth stage, whether that’s MVP to scale, a platform shift, or both, and you know what it takes to make a fragile product solid.
• You have progressive software engineering experience and have led a team before, operating at the director level or as the de facto engineering leader who owns engineering decisions, not just opinions.
• You're comfortable writing code yourself, even if it’s a modest slice of your week, and just as comfortable presenting technical strategy to executive leadership.
• You're genuinely excited about AI-augmented development as a core productivity multiplier, with real opinions on where tools like Claude Code work well and where they don’t.
• You partner with product leaders as a peer, fluent in both business and engineering, knowing when to push back and when to defer.
• You're a systems thinker who sees how a design system or architecture decision made today shapes what's possible months from now.
• You've built at scale in Vue.js, React, or Angular, as well as you are well versed in backend languages like Kotlin or Java or similar languages when the work calls for it (preferred).

What Winning Looks Like:

• Sitting with product and design to scope every epic, bringing the technical answer, or knowing how to find it quickly, before the team commits.
• Translating product strategy into architecture decisions on design systems, routing, and backend data models.
• Building and growing the engineering team, setting the bar for hiring, code quality, and technical debt through clear standards rather than process overhead.
• Evolving the team’s AI-augmented development workflow and building the tooling and practices that let AI agents handle the micro work while engineers focus on the macro.
• Guarding the design system and making sure the routing, backend, and data architecture scale as the product and team grow.
• Calling the right shot on when to build custom and when existing components are enough.

Other Stuff to Know:

We're looking for people who are passionate about our mission. This isn't just a J-O-B. We experience resistance every day because what we believe is absolutely countercultural. We actually hate debt. We actually cut up our credit cards ... like, for real. Some of us are still fighting our way out of debt, but we aren’t going back. If you don’t know much about Ramsey Solutions and our founder, Dave Ramsey, we encourage you to download the Ramsey Network mobile app and consume our content.

EOE, including disability/vets

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