Engineering Director — Ownership, Architecture & Impact

Consulting Edge; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible hours

Job summary

Consulting Edge in Metairie, LA is seeking a Director of Engineering with deep Python and frontend experience to lead a fast-moving team focused on Vue.js and Express.js workloads. The role emphasizes ownership, architecture decisions, and mentoring a mix of junior and senior engineers in a high-velocity environment.

You will drive performance, make Jenkins tradeoffs, document APIs and architectures, and guide the tech stack while aligning with business goals and life in LA.

Qualifications

• Must have strong Python capability and curiosity about solving hard problems.
• Ability to communicate clearly both written and verbally.
• Ten years of real-world engineering experience.
• Strong Vue.js and Express.js backgrounds; capable of diagramming architecture.

Responsibilities

• Hunt down latency spikes and performance issues.
• Explain Jenkins tradeoffs to tech stakeholders and execs.
• Document decisions, architecture, and APIs for the org.
• Sketch Vue.js sequence diagrams to clarify data flows.
• Keep CI fast so Metairie engineers stay in flow.
• Decide when to buy Jenkins versus build it for the stack in Metairie, LA.
• Own end-to-end technology service from Vue.js schemas to on-call rotation.
• Integrate Vue.js APIs with Express.js consumers.

Skills

Python

Vue.js

Express.js

Jenkins

Communication

10+ years experience

Teamwork

Tools

Jenkins

Vue.js

Express.js

Job description

Consulting Edge in Metairie, LA is seeking a Director of Engineering with deep Python and frontend experience to lead a fast-moving team focused on Vue.js and Express.js workloads. The role emphasizes ownership, architecture decisions, and mentoring a mix of junior and senior engineers in a high-velocity environment.

You will drive performance, make Jenkins tradeoffs, document APIs and architectures, and guide the tech stack while aligning with business goals and life in LA.