Remote Director of Engineering — Fintech Growth Leader

stepmobile; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Life insurance

Job summary

Step is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead and grow our engineering organization as we enter our next phase of scale. You'll work closely with the CTO and leaders across Product, Design, Operations, Risk to set technical direction, build high-performing teams, and deliver products that make a meaningful impact for millions of customers.

This is a leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable thinking strategically and getting into the details.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and leadership.
• Proven track record building and scaling customer-facing software.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems as scale.
• Strong technical judgment and pragmatic decision making.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization.
• Define and execute Step's technical strategy and engineering roadmap.
• Own execution across multiple teams with high quality and speed.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Provide leadership on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality.
• Evolve systems and practices to support rapid growth and scale.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Architectural strategy

Distributed systems

Communication

Product sense

Tools

Kubernetes

React Native

TypeScript

gRPC

Postgres

Terraform

BigQuery

Job description

Step is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead and grow our engineering organization as we enter our next phase of scale. You'll work closely with the CTO and leaders across Product, Design, Operations, Risk to set technical direction, build high-performing teams, and deliver products that make a meaningful impact for millions of customers.

This is a leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable thinking strategically and getting into the details.