Head of Engineering, Consumer Tech & Platforms

CANDID8.AI; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

solidcore seeks a Director of Engineering to lead its consumer-facing engineering ecosystem, including mobile apps, web platforms, backend services, integrations, and digital product capabilities. This leader will oversee internal engineers, external partners, and QA, partnering with Product, Digital, Marketing, Lifecycle, CX, and Operations to deliver scalable technology, driving business outcomes.

Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, the role requires deep technical depth combined with

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership.
• Experience leading consumer-facing mobile and web products.
• Experience managing internal teams and external development partners.
• Strong experience with modern cloud architectures, preferably AWS.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering organization
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
• Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent as the organization scales
• Establish engineering standards, development processes, documentation practices, and quality expectations
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the digital ecosystem
• Define and evolve the long-term strategy for mobile, web, backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform architecture
• Lead architecture decisions across mobile applications, web platforms, backend services, and cloud infrastructure
• Develop technology roadmaps balancing business priorities, scalability, speed, and maintainability
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and technology debt reduction
• Improve engineering velocity, quality, reliability, and operational performance
• Ensure platforms remain scalable, resilient, and secure as the business grows
• Own relationships with strategic engineering partners and external teams
• Evaluate partner performance and ROI
• Balance internal capabilities vs external partnerships over time
• Drive platform evolution across consumer apps, backend services, and integrations
• Partner with Business Systems and IT on platform strategy and long-term planning
• Ensure documentation and knowledge transfer of critical systems
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Digital leadership
• Translate complex tech concepts into clear business recommendations
• Collaborate with Product to deliver client and business outcomes
• Participate in annual planning, budgeting, and resource allocation
• Present technical strategies and tradeoffs to leadership
• Leverage modern engineering tools and AI-enabled practices to boost productivity

Skills

Engineering management

Team building

Technology strategy

Solution architecture

Cloud architecture

AWS

React Native

Distributed systems

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Job description

solidcore seeks a Director of Engineering to lead its consumer-facing engineering ecosystem, including mobile apps, web platforms, backend services, integrations, and digital product capabilities. This leader will oversee internal engineers, external partners, and QA, partnering with Product, Digital, Marketing, Lifecycle, CX, and Operations to deliver scalable technology, driving business outcomes.

Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, the role requires deep technical depth combined with