Director, Engineering – Data & Insights

Role Overview

• Oversee and manage multiple software engineering teams, ensuring they are working efficiently and are aligned with organizational objectives.
• Provide mentorship and career development opportunities to engineering managers and senior engineers, helping them grow as leaders.
• Lead efforts to recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent – to ensure we build high-performing, diverse teams that collaborate effectively.
• Foster an environment where teams feel pride and ownership in their product and Rithum as a whole. Create and nurture a positive, inclusive, and innovative engineering culture that aligns with company values and promotes teamwork, diversity, and collaboration.
• Encourage an attitude of proactive responsibility (finding problems before the client does), and a sense of ownership and urgency in resolving client-facing production problems quickly. Create a culture where people don't just point out problems but also become a part of the solution.
• Develop and communicate the long-term technical vision and strategy that aligns with the company’s business goals. Work with C-level executives to translate business needs into actionable engineering plans.
• Collaborate with product management to develop and prioritize the engineering roadmap, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to meet project deadlines and business priorities.
• Plan and manage the engineering budget, ensuring efficient use of resources while balancing project needs and cost constraints.
• Assure education, awareness, and adherence of your team to Rithum software development processes and standards, including Scrum agile development, automated testing, internationalization, usability, scalability, and service-oriented architecture initiatives.
• Continuously assess and refine development processes to increase efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and improve collaboration between engineering and other teams.
• Oversee the design and development of advanced software solutions that scale across hundreds of servers and meet aggressive fault tolerance standards.
• Regularly communicate progress, technical challenges, and project outcomes to the executive team, providing insights that guide broader business strategy.
• Ensure that all stakeholders, including product, operations, and business leaders, are aligned on technical initiatives and that expectations are managed effectively.
• Interface with key clients, partners, and external stakeholders when necessary, providing technical insight and ensuring smooth delivery of software products.

Requirements

• 10+ years' experience in software development within SaaS industry
• AWS data services experience
• Strong SQL skills at scale with columnar/analytical query engines (Redshift, BigQuery, or equivalent)
• Data warehouse design and ETL/ELT pipeline architecture
• Experience with data lake patterns
• Familiarity with streaming or near-real-time data patterns (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
• Demonstrated ownership of data quality, governance, and schema management
• Proven capabilities in building and retaining engaged, high-performing software development teams.
• Experience managing the entire software development lifecycle of SaaS applications at scale.
• Evidence of navigating a fast-paced, dynamic industry (like e-commerce) and delivering products that gain market share.
• Experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, etc.) to accelerate and elevate your outcomes; including but not limited to communication drafting, data analysis, prompt engineering, and/or documentation
• Exceptional written and spoken English
• Must be able to work US Eastern Time core business hours

Tech Stack

• Amazon Redshift
• AWS
• BigQuery
• ETL
• Kafka
• SQL

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1
• A 6% 401(k) match
• Competitive time off package with 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day; at 3 years of service PTO increases to 22 days, and at 5 years it increases to 25 days
• 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Pet insurance
• Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans
• Life insurance 2x salary
• Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program
• $65/month Remote work stipend for internet
• Culture and team-building activities
• Tuition assistance
• Career development opportunities
• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year