Senior Director, Engineering

Octane is unlocking the power of financial products for merchants and consumers. Our cutting-edge technology and innovative financial products empower businesses with more control and flexibility, enabling them to deliver seamless digital experiences, drive customer loyalty, and build long-term value.

Octane supports merchants throughout the sales cycle: connecting dealerships with high-intent buyers, driving transparent, fast, and easy closings with award-winning technology, and providing on-going customer care with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, Octane supports over 60 OEM partner brands and over 4,000 dealer partners, and has a team of over 600. Visit www.octane.co.

As the Senior Director of Engineering, you’ll lead a talented team of engineers and guide them to deliver exceptional results. You’ll bring a balance of technical expertise and strong leadership to inspire and grow your team. In this role, you’ll foster an inclusive and diverse environment that values curiosity, truth-seeking, and thoughtful prioritization. You’ll drive business outcomes through speed, creativity, and a high standard of quality. You’ll also mentor engineers, champion best practices, and work closely with stakeholders to align technical strategy with company goals.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate our company's cultural values by engaging in diversity of people and ideas, seeking the truth and test assumptions, and ruthlessly prioritizing.
• Own business outcomes through a balance of speed, creativity, and relentless high bar for quality.
• Act as the last line of defense for quality control, best practices and effective design strategies.
• Foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Play an active role in hiring and developing our engineering team.
• Bring both technical acuity and leadership skills to build a high-performing team.
• Grow your engineers and keep them motivated, empowered, and happy through effective continuous career development conversations.
• Partnering with stakeholders to help your team understand their mission and how they fit in with the overall business goals; define and execute your team’s long-term strategy and quarterly roadmap.
• Prioritize leadership and team development, while remaining ready to jump into technical work to support critical initiatives.
  
  
  

Requirements

• 15 years experience in software engineering, at least 8 of them in a lead or manager capacity.
• Managed teams of 5 direct reports or more in remote and/or hybrid environments.
• Growth mindset.
• Passionate about building data related products and understand good systems design.
• Experienced interacting with senior management; ability to demonstrate critical thinking and thought leadership.
• Proven track record of effectively developing direct reports through continual feedback, goal-setting, and growing them through the ranks of an engineering organization.
• Advanced understanding of modern software development practices and methodologies, and the ability to roll up your sleeves and contribute when necessary.
• Experience directly working on or managing a team working on production systems and high-volume applications.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, identify, and mentor top engineering talent.
  
  
  

Compensation: In addition to salary, Total Rewards include bonus eligibility, a stock option package, and benefits as outlined below. The role described above offers a base salary of $210,000 to $260,000 bonus incentive eligibility. Your offer will be based on location, the alignment of your qualifications with the requirements of the job and internal equity.

Benefits

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy - Time Off When You Need It
• Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc
• Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit
• Powersports Safety Benefit
  
  
  

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.