Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering

Full-Time, Exempt Employee

At Career Team, our mission is to empower one person, start one career, and serve one family at a time. We do this through innovative software solutions and high-touch services.

As the Director of Engineering, you’ll be the technical leader who turns ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable systems. You’ll own the engineering rhythm of today while architecting the platform of tomorrow: faster, safer, and with only good surprises. We are seeking someone with the proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage managers, and build a high-performance department culture.

• Cloud platform and infrastructure: Architect, operate, and continuously harden our AWS environment; EKS, ECR, Docker, and the full container delivery pipeline, so engineers can ship with confidence and operations can sleep at night.
• People Management: Experience in leading and mentoring talent, resolving conflict, and building inclusive team cultures that drive long-term retention.
• Application architecture: Set technical direction for our Node.js services and MongoDB data layer, balancing speed-to-market with long-term maintainability, performance, and cost.
• Hands-on leadership for large technical projects: Lead delivery of complex, cross-cutting initiatives: in the architecture review, in the pull request, and on the incident bridge when it matters most.
• Hiring and team building: Recruit, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team. Build the bench, raise the bar, and grow the culture as we scale.
• Observability and reliability: Own logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across AWS: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, and related tooling, so we detect and resolve issues before customers feel them.
• Engineering operating cadence: Establish predictable delivery rhythms across planning, releases, on-call rotations, and roadmap reviews; that build trust across the company.
• Security and compliance: Strengthen controls around access, secrets, data, and change management while keeping the team moving fast.
• Strategy and planning: Translate technical tradeoffs into decisions: capacity, architecture, and build-vs-buy recommendations that help us pick the right direction together.
• Cross-functional problem-solving: Work hand in hand with product, operations, and client-facing teams when technical issues arise, before they become escalations.
• Scale the team; build the machine: Help position us for growth and the exciting chapters ahead!

Why Join Us

• We change lives.
• We’re growing quickly and need leaders who want real ownership and real impact.
• We’re serious about the outcomes, but have fun making them happen.
• Big enough to be interesting, small enough that your work changes the company.

Who You Are

• You’re fluent in modern cloud architecture and comfortable with the messy middle of scaling fast.
• You can move from system design to executive conversation without missing a beat.
• You’re hands-on when needed and know when to step back and let the team shine.