Director of Software Engineering
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Engineering Director scaling GenLogs’ nationwide truck-sensing and freight-intelligence platform. Leading multidisciplinary teams across hardware, software, cloud systems, and machine learning applications.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team spanning software engineering, product development, machine learning applications, and agentic development
- Build a high-performing engineering culture centered on ownership, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Establish expectations, goals, career development paths, and performance standards
- Recruit and retain engineering talent and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Define and evolve technical strategy and architecture for user-facing applications and services
- Guide architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs across the product lifecycle
- Balance product delivery with reliability, scalability, maintainability, and cost
- Establish engineering standards and practices and drive technical risks and dependencies to resolution
- Partner with Product and Deployment to translate requirements into engineering plans
- Own engineering execution against product and technology roadmaps
- Create planning and development processes providing visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and resources
- Remove organizational and technical blockers
- Coordinate hardware and software development across design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Incorporate field deployment feedback into product and engineering decisions
- Improve system availability, performance, observability, security, and operational resilience
- Establish testing and validation practices across hardware, embedded software, and cloud systems
- Partner with Deployment and Operations on installation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
- Develop processes for diagnosing and resolving complex production and field issues
- Ensure systems scale to a national-level sensing network
- Collaborate with Product, Deployment, Data Science, Data Engineering, company leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Communicate technical strategy, roadmaps, tradeoffs, and risks clearly
Requirements:
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience leading engineering teams and organizations
- 5+ years of people management experience, including managing senior engineers and/or engineering managers
- Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across two or more of: hardware, embedded systems, edge computing, backend software, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems
- Experience building and operating products combining physical hardware with software systems
- Proven experience scaling engineering teams, processes, and technical infrastructure as a company or product grows
- Strong technical understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and production systems
- Experience establishing engineering standards, development processes, testing practices, and operational excellence
- Demonstrated ability to make sound technical and organizational decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- High effectiveness and communication working in a remote and distributed team
- English proficiency is required
Benefits:
- Opportunity to build technology at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds
- Direct impact on the technology, people, and systems required to scale a nationwide sensor network
- Opportunity to build an engineering organization supporting an ambitious sensing and intelligence platform in freight
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