Director of Engineering - Hunt

onXmaps, Inc. is a high-growth tech company focused on helping people explore the outdoors through innovative technology. They are seeking an experienced engineering leader to lead the Hunt Vertical, providing leadership across multiple platforms and ensuring the reliability and scalability of their core systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own and Lead the Hunt Engineering Vertical
• Provide technical and people leadership across Core Hunt, HRT, and Land Intelligence, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability
• Balance the needs of multiple customer personas, from casual hunters to power users and professionals
• Act as a steward of high-trust, business-critical systems, particularly where data accuracy, performance, and availability directly impact customer confidence
• Partner at the Highest Level with Product and Design
• Operate as a true peer to Product leadership, jointly owning domain strategy, investment sequencing, and roadmap outcomes
• Translate customer insights, product strategy, and business priorities into clear engineering direction
• Challenge and influence product direction when needed to protect long-term velocity, system integrity, and customer trust
• Build and Grow High-Performing Teams
• Make great engineers better through coaching, feedback, career development, and mentoring
• Build and scale balanced, multi-disciplinary teams across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend
• Hire exceptional engineers and contribute to broader engineering and leadership hiring efforts, including interviewing manager-level candidates
• Drive Technical Strategy and Execution
• Guide architectural direction and long-term technical strategy for Hunt’s core systems
• Lead teams through ambiguous problem spaces, bringing clarity without slowing momentum
• Ensure strong engineering fundamentals: quality, observability, operational excellence, and sustainable delivery
• Improve engineering velocity and effectiveness through thoughtful processes, metrics, and tooling (including responsible use of AI-assisted development tools)
• Communicate and Align Across the Organization
• Manage dependencies and collaboration across multiple teams and domains
• Communicate clearly and proactively with engineering, product, design, and executive stakeholders
• Help teams understand the “why” behind the work and how it connects to onX’s broader mission and business goals

Requirements:

• At least five (5) years of experience where you directly managed software engineers
• Proven ability to lead multi-platform teams (iOS, Android, Web, Backend), building customer-facing products at scale
• Proven track record of delivering solutions to help enable product and engineering teams
• Improved engineering velocity, quality, and observability across teams, and are comfortable introducing or maturing workflows, processes, and metrics
• Experience thoughtfully adopting AI-assisted development tools to improve team productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity, and helping teams build strong judgment around when and how to use them effectively
• Ability to connect engineering work to business goals, making decisions that balance customer value, quality, and impact
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and velocity, and can help your team adopt them effectively
• Ability to communicate well with executives and non-technical leaders
• Strong computer science foundation
• Desire to work with other happy, talented engineers
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments and different stages of a product lifecycle
• Familiarity with mapping or navigation technologies
• Experience designing or leading complex client or server-side architectures for high-volume consumer-facing products
• Experience working with distributed systems, APIs, or platform components that support large-scale B2C applications
• Experience working both with startups and larger growth companies
• Understanding how product, growth, and revenue metrics influence technical priorities in a fast-growing business
• B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related field or experience