[DEMO] Software Engineering Director in Mountain View

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[DEMO] Hugo's US QBO Payroll Elite Attached is seeking a Software Engineering Director to lead high-impact engineering efforts in a hybrid environment in Mountain View.

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Position Summary

As a Software Engineering Director, you will provide strategic technical leadership and operational direction to engineering teams delivering reliable, scalable software products. You will partner closely with cross-functional leaders to set technical direction, drive execution, and elevate engineering practices across the organization.

In this role, you will balance big-picture strategy with hands-on leadership—ensuring teams ship quality work, improve system performance and reliability, and continuously advance development standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage software engineering teams, providing clear priorities, performance guidance, and effective coaching to deliver results.

• Define and communicate technical strategy, architecture direction, and delivery roadmaps aligned with business goals.

• Drive engineering execution across the full lifecycle, ensuring quality, scalability, and maintainability of production systems.

• Collaborate with product, design, and operational stakeholders to translate requirements into technical plans and measurable outcomes.

• Establish and improve engineering standards, including coding practices, reliability approaches, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading software engineering teams, with a demonstrated ability to translate strategy into delivered outcomes.

• Strong technical foundation in designing and operating complex software systems at scale.

• Proven experience driving engineering execution, setting priorities, and managing delivery in dynamic, cross-functional environments.

• Track record of improving engineering processes related to quality, reliability, and maintainability.

• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts and influence decisions across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience guiding architecture and modernization efforts for large, distributed systems.

• Demonstrated leadership in reliability engineering, observability, and incident response practices.

• Familiarity with building secure software and promoting secure development practices.

• Experience partnering with organizations that operate in regulated or compliance-driven environments.

Compensation

Annual salary: $500,000.00