Director, Software Engineering
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Software engineering director leading architecture, teams, and AI-enabled delivery for KinderCare’s nationwide child care platforms. Driving digital transformation across family- and center-facing products.
Responsibilities:
- Create a vision and strategy for KinderCare’s Software Engineering capability, covering people, process, and technology
- Lead development and delivery of high-quality software solutions across multiple platforms
- Develop managers, software engineers, architects, and cross-functional technical leaders across distributed teams
- Build organizational capability through workforce planning, succession planning, talent development, and leadership coaching
- Improve team throughput and developer productivity through AI development tooling, modern engineering practices, and process improvement
- Establish and govern architectural direction and technical roadmaps for software products
- Balance contract workers and full-time employees to optimize delivery capacity, cost, and knowledge continuity
- Partner with Product Management, Quality Engineering, Portfolio, and Infrastructure/Operations to align and deliver software products
- Set quarterly team objectives and key results aligned with business priorities and technology strategy
- Ensure software development and architecture processes are efficient, effective, and scalable
- Evangelize KinderCare’s Discovery to Delivery framework
- Communicate progress, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership and stakeholders
- Participate in cross-functional technology leadership activities and strategic initiatives
- Provide customer-focused responsiveness for problem solving and incident management
- Cultivate an MVP-delivery mindset across teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in software development
- 5+ years in a leadership role managing and developing onshore and offshore software engineering teams
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality software products
- Experience managing software architects and developing architectural talent
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows
- Track record of improving team throughput through AI tooling and process improvement
- Experience delivering customer websites, applications, and services, including payment solutions and financial transactional systems
- Strong technical background in software architecture, design patterns, and development methodologies
- Experience optimizing Agile software engineering delivery across multiple platforms and product teams
- Experience balancing contract and full-time employees
- Experience managing vendor relationships for contract engineers and managed software engineering services
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex projects in a fast-paced environment
Benefits:
- Discounted child care benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees’ families and pets
- Employee assistance programs
- Mental health and personal growth support
- Health and wellness programs
- Paid time off
- Discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones
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