Software Engineering Director - Lead Innovation & Growth

FCT; Santa Ana (CA); Remote; USD 197,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

First American, a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For, seeks a Director of Software Engineering in California to lead multiple software teams and drive technical excellence. You will align engineering strategy with business goals, mentor leaders, and deliver scalable solutions across product, design, and QA.

You will oversee architecture, DevOps practices, and hiring while coordinating distributed teams to accelerate delivery and quality in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience, with at least 8 years in a leadership role managing engineering teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to dive into system architecture, design, performance metrics, code, test plans, deployments, and operations.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills, capable of inspiring teams to pursue objectives.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale enterprise products and services.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the software engineering strategy aligned to business goals.
• Partner with Product, Design, and QA to meet customer needs.
• Drive end-to-end engineering delivery with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure architectures are scalable and maintainable; lead architecture reviews.
• Improve engineering processes (Agile, DevOps) and foster continuous improvement.

Skills

Technical leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication

Distributed teams

Tools

C#

.NET Core/.NET Framework

TypeScript

React

Node.js

AWS

Azure

GCP

Security/compliance

Job description

First American, a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For, seeks a Director of Software Engineering in California to lead multiple software teams and drive technical excellence. You will align engineering strategy with business goals, mentor leaders, and deliver scalable solutions across product, design, and QA.

You will oversee architecture, DevOps practices, and hiring while coordinating distributed teams to accelerate delivery and quality in a regulated financial services environment.