Engineering Director

Hostinger; United States; Remote; USD 114,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

360 Growth

Freedom & responsibility

Wellness

Work hard – play hard

Job summary

Hostinger is seeking an Engineering Director who will report to the VP of Engineering and oversee the Shared Services / Platform area of the product department. You will own teams focused on Websites, Billing, Payments, Platform, and Internal Tools, leveraging PHP (Laravel/Symfony) and Vue.js stacks.

You will drive accountability, mentor leaders, and partner across business units to deliver meaningful platform capabilities and AI-driven improvements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in scalable products.
• Track record of building and owning production-ready services over the long run.
• Comfort with PHP (Laravel/Symfony), Python, Node.js, Go and/or Vue.js; openness to AI-assisted tooling.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI-enabled engineering and driving adoption across teams.
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and evolving processes.
• Senior, largely independent role with strong stakeholder management.
• Experience in consumer/digital products is a plus.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and grow Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to raise their ambitions.
• Take ownership of underperforming teams and resolve issues directly.
• Champion a build-it, own-it culture with end-to-end accountability.
• Partner with product, other engineering leaders, and cross-functional teams to address meaningful problems.
• Bring clarity and structure to fast-moving environments without slowing delivery.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering across teams and close AI adoption gaps.
• Define how impact is measured and communicated for platform and internal teams.

Skills

7+ years hands-on

Product ownership

PHP Laravel/Symfony

Python

Node.js

Go

Vue.js

AI tooling adoption

English communication

Tools

PHP Laravel/Symfony stack

Python

Node.js

Go

Vue.js

Job description

Join the team building an AI-first company.

Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries, but we're still excited about what we're creating next.

AI is changing how we build products, support customers, work together, and solve problems. It helps us move faster, spend less time on repetitive work, and focus on bigger ideas.

If you want your work to influence both what we build and how we build it, we'd like to meet you.

Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles https://www.hostinger.com/principles

YOUR ROLE AT HOSTINGER

As Engineering Director, you'll report directly to our VP of Engineering and work closely with our Head of Delivery, owning an important “Shared Services / Platform” area of our product department. You will be expected to raise the bar for how teams are run, and take direct ownership of teams and problems as they're handed to you. The “Shared Services / Platform” area consists of PHP (Laravel/Symfony) and Vue.js-heavy teams such as: Websites, Billing, Payments, Platform, and Internal Tools.

The teams ensure we deliver shared capabilities once, enable and unblock our colleagues and commercial product teams to move faster.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY

• Hire, coach, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, helping them raise their own ambitions rather than settle for "business as usual"
• Take direct ownership of underperforming teams or unresolved problems - roll up your sleeves and fix them yourself when needed.
• Champion a "you build it, you own it" culture: full accountability from writing code through production - observability, incident response, postmortems, and learning from failure.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business - product, other engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners - to make sure the right problems get addressed, not just the loudest ones.
• Bring clarity and structure to a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment, without slowing it down.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering across your teams, and help close any gaps in AI adoption.
• Help define how outcome and impact - not just output - gets measured and communicated for platform and internal-facing teams, where the connection to revenue isn't always obvious.

YOUR EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• A track record of building and owning products and services in production over the long run.
• Real comfort with, or strong openness to, PHP (Laravel/Symfony), Python, Node.JS http://node.js, GO, and/or Vue.js - true generalists who can pick up any stack, with the help of AI tools, tend to thrive here.
• Genuine, active enthusiasm for AI-assisted engineering; you're expected to pull your teams forward on adoption, not catch up to them.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, evolving processes, and fast-changing priorities.
• A resilient, self-directed way of working - this is a senior, largely independent role without a large peer group at the same level.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to give and take direct feedback.
• Experience scaling up from a smaller company or startup is a plus, as is a background in digital, consumer-facing (B2C) product companies.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

BENEFITS YOU'LL LOVE

360 Growth: We provide limitless learning opportunities: access to platforms like Reforge and CoachHub, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, feedback culture, and mentoring through TesoXchange. Advance your career with internal mobility and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success.

Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms: from modern offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, the comfort of home, or anywhere in the world. Enjoy flexibility in managing your schedule and bring your ideas to life in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Wellness simplified: Your health comes first with insurance from Day 1, gym memberships, recharge leave, Headspace subscriptions, and regular health checks. Join our wellbeing-dedicated events, sports, arts, and hobby clubs, or simply enjoy the balance of a lifestyle that prioritizes wellness.

Work hard – play hard: Celebrate your achievements with company events like Summerfest & Winterfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-buildings, and workations. Enjoy access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge and celebrate life's big moments with milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations.

COMPENSATION

Competitive salary starting from €9,000 gross/month, depending on your experience and skills.

We're always looking for experienced talent to raise the bar. If you're excited about the role but the listed salary range doesn't align with your expectations, we still encourage you to apply - we're open to adjusting compensation based on the impact and value you bring.

Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger …