Key skills
AIAWSAgileLeadershipProduct ManagementCommunicationCritical ThinkingTime Management
About this role
A Day in the Life:
The Director of Software Engineering is a hands-on, strategic technology leader in the Product Engineering organization responsible for building, scaling, and modernizing the platforms and services that power Hertz’s pricing and rate management capabilities across all brands (Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty), countries, and partners.
This role blends deep technical leadership, people development, and platform ownership. You will lead globally distributed engineering teams while remaining close to the code, architecture decisions, and delivery outcomes. You will partner closely with Product, Revenue Management, and downstream consuming teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems that support the end-to-end rates lifecycle: from price definition and rule management to distribution and auditability.
You will help define how Hertz builds software: modern architectures, engineering culture, delivery excellence, and platform reliability on a global scale.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the design, build, and modernization of rates systems supporting multi-brand, multi-country, and franchise operations
- Own the future-state architecture for pricing and rates platforms, ensuring scalability, configurability, performance, and regulatory compliance across regions
- Be adaptive across modern and legacy technologies; define and execute migration approaches (e.g., surround/strangle, incremental refactoring) that safely move critical pricing capabilities to target-state architectures
- Collaborate with cross functional leaders on your product teams (product management, design) to develop and execute backlogs & roadmaps
- Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, technical design, and selective pairing with senior engineers
- Build and lead high-performing global engineering teams (onshore, nearshore, offshore)
- Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent; drive career paths, rotations, and learning plans
- Establish and evolve engineering standards: cloud-native patterns, APIs, event-driven systems, resiliency, and observability
- Drive a culture of ownership, quality, speed, and empathy
- Ensure platforms are secure, compliant, highly available, and operationally excellent
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align on shared services and technology strategy
- Stay current with new technology trends in the platform, AI, streaming and IoT space
- Ensure high quality, consistent, easy to use and compliance software solutions
What We’re Looking For:
We are looking for a leader who can operate at the intersection of people, product, and technology. Ideal candidates bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience,
- 10+ years of Software Engineering experience designing and implementing solutions using cloud native technologies and Agile methodologies
- Strong track record with modern development practices including AWS technolgies.
- Strong foundational understanding in Computer Science fundamentals and design patterns.
- Strong communication skills in articulating technical details to both technical and non-technical audience.
- Experience implementing enterprise integration and modernization patterns (abstract, surround, strangle) to integrate cloud-native solutions with legacy enterprise systems and data sources, including leading migrations of critical domains with minimal business disruption.
- A pattern of success on teams using Agile Methodologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Results driven, ability to make decisions and help solve problems
- Ability to build and lead a diverse, high-performing, results-oriented, and highly-engaged team.
- Ability to drive process and organizational change.
- Ability to motivate teams and keep a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision with a goal-oriented mindset.
- Ability to see the big picture and leverage critical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Excellent organization, time management, delegation, and prioritization skills.
- Courageous leadership and accountability.
We expect the starting salary to be around $175,000. The actual salary will be commensurate with experience.
What You’ll Get:
- Up to 40% off the base rate of any standard Hertz Rental
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
- Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
- Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
- Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
- Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
- Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more