Director, Software Engineering & Integration

Exol is bringing industry-leading automation to businesses of all sizes through an innovative warehouse-as-a-service model. They are seeking a Director of Software Engineering & Integration to lead the development and evolution of their digital platform, providing technical and organizational leadership across platform engineering, service architecture, integration frameworks, and application development.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of scalable digital applications, including:
• Backend microservices and APIs
• Event-driven service components
• User-facing web applications and operational interfaces
• Ensure cohesive design between service layers and application layers
• Promote clean API contracts and separation of concerns between systems
• Drive consistent engineering standards across application and service codebases
• Guide architecture for:
• Microservices and API-first platforms
• Event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows
• Multi-tenant, scalable service environments
• Provide technical leadership for messaging and middleware solutions, including:
• Google Pub/Sub (preferred)
• Kafka and related ecosystems
• JMS-based messaging platforms
• Define standards for event contracts, schema versioning, retry logic, and failure handling
• Own engineering direction for:
• Internal service integrations
• External partner APIs
• EDI and system-to-system exchanges
• Establish reusable integration frameworks and shared service components
• Ensure secure, monitored, and version-controlled integration endpoints
• Oversee development of modern web applications and platform interfaces
• Ensure applications are:
• Role-based and multi-tenant aware
• Performance-optimized and scalable
• Consistent in user interaction patterns
• Encourage engineering best practices around frontend architecture, testing, and maintainability
• Drive performance engineering practices across service and application layers
• Promote profiling, diagnostics, and runtime monitoring standards
• Partner with Cloud and DevOps teams to ensure observability is embedded into the software lifecycle
• Translate product roadmaps into structured engineering plans
• Ensure sprint discipline, backlog alignment, and predictable release cycles
• Conduct architecture and production-readiness reviews
• Maintain strong coordination between US leadership and GCC execution teams
• Manage contractor and partner engineering performance

Requirements:

• Minimum 12 years in software engineering, with 6+ years in leadership roles
• Experience scaling enterprise-grade digital platforms
• Strong expertise in: Microservices and API-first design, Event-driven architectures, Messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent), Modern Java-based backend frameworks (Spring preferred), Modern web application development frameworks
• Experience leading distributed engineering organizations (US + offshore/GCC)
• Strong balance of architectural depth and delivery accountability
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive structured decisions in evolving environments
• Collaborative mindset with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively
• Bias toward scalable, long-term solutions over short-term fixes
• Comfortable operating across time zones and cultures (US + GCC)
• High accountability for outcomes, not just activity
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Background in supply chain, logistics, or operational platforms
• Experience working with or building around Order Management Systems (OMS)
• Exposure to warehouse, transportation, or fulfillment systems
• Experience in cloud-native environments (GCP preferred)
• Google Pub/Sub
• Spring