Director of Software Engineering

L.V. Enterprises; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Job summary

L.V. Enterprises in Sioux Falls, SD seeks a Software Engineering Director to shape the team, technology, and engineering culture behind mission-critical systems. You’ll lead the software department, hire and mentor engineers, set roadmaps, and drive scalable processes.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years building complex software, 2+ years leading engineers, and a relevant technical degree. You’ll evaluate architectures, manage tradeoffs, and collaborate with product and operations leaders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing complex software.
• 2+ years leading engineers or technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field.
• Ability to evaluate complex architectures and guide tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a software department including hiring, staffing, roadmaps, strategic planning, and engineering processes.
• Develop technical leaders and align with product and operations.
• Partner with engineering, product, and operations leaders to drive delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture evaluation

Team building

Roadmap planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Lead the engineers. Challenge the architecture. Build software that has to work.

Relocation provided!

We’re hiring a Software Engineering Director in Sioux Falls, SD for a role with real technical depth and the opportunity to shape the team, technology, and engineering culture behind complex, mission-critical systems.

We’re looking for an engineer who moved into leadership and still wants to understand how the system works—someone who asks thoughtful questions in design reviews, recognizes risk early, and gives technical leads room to own their decisions.

The scope includes leading a software department: hiring and developing people, staffing, resource allocation, roadmaps, strategic planning, and engineering processes. Experience leading multiple teams or a smaller department is relevant; you don’t need to have run a large organization.

Technical credibility matters. You won’t need to be the primary architect, but you should be able to evaluate complex architectures, challenge assumptions, and guide tradeoffs around reliability, performance, delivery, and maintainability.

Your impact would include:

• Building the team and developing technical leaders.
• Turning priorities into realistic plans and removing obstacles.
• Strengthening automation, testing, CI/CD, tooling, and software reuse.
• Partnering with engineering, product, and operations leaders.

The strongest fit brings:

• Experience delivering software as part of a larger engineered system, including integration, reliability, verification, and long-term product development.
• Embedded, distributed, networked, hardware-integrated, aerospace, or defense experience would be especially relevant.
• We’re looking for 8+ years developing complex software, 2+ years leading engineers or technical teams, and a relevant technical bachelor’s degree—along with curiosity, accountability, and sound judgment.