Engineering Director: Delivery, Architecture & Reliability

LegitScript; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work options

Job summary

LegitScript seeks a Director of Engineering to own delivery across multiple squads, mentor managers, and shape technical direction. You will partner with product leadership to balance speed with reliability, define standards for architecture, testing, and on-call practices, and ensure commitments are feasible.

You bring 10+ years in software, 4+ years leading managers, and a track record delivering complex B2B SaaS. This is a senior leadership role based in the United States.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership of other managers.
• Experience delivering complex B2B SaaS, fintech, or regtech systems.
• Proven ability to own delivery across multiple teams and manage dependencies.
• Strong estimation discipline and ability to fix systems with poor estimates.
• Experience partnering with product as a peer with clear boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across squads, including capacity planning and forecasting.
• Define engineering standards for design reviews, code quality, testing, and docs.
• Own reliability, incident response, and on-call sustainability.
• Partner with staff engineers on architecture and shared platform.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Define and track engineering health metrics for delivery predictability and time to recover.
• Report risk, progress, and trade-offs to leadership with clarity.

Skills

Team leadership

Software architecture

Delivery forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Communication

B2B SaaS domain

Capacity planning

Estimations

Vendor/consultancy management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Salesforce platform

Job description

LegitScript seeks a Director of Engineering to own delivery across multiple squads, mentor managers, and shape technical direction. You will partner with product leadership to balance speed with reliability, define standards for architecture, testing, and on-call practices, and ensure commitments are feasible.

You bring 10+ years in software, 4+ years leading managers, and a track record delivering complex B2B SaaS. This is a senior leadership role based in the United States.