Director, Web Engineering

A financial firm is looking for a Director of Web Engineering to join their team in Phoenix, AZ.

Compensation: $220-240K

Not looking for architect - must have management experience leading/building teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of highly talented web engineers to build and deliver the web roadmap.
• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering teams focused on building high-scale, high-performance web applications.
• Drive a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and evolving ways of working to strengthen engineering capabilities, platforms, and team growth.
• Work with stakeholders across Product, Design, Business, and Technology to drive change required for product execution.
• Establish strong working relationships with Product Owners and technical teams across the organization.
• Hire, retain, and mentor engineers while promoting strong engineering culture and best practices.
• Conduct performance assessments, provide feedback, and maintain a consistent feedback loop with engineering teams.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Drive roadmap execution and strategic direction within your area of responsibility.
• Use engineering metrics to drive quality, predictability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure alignment of architecture, standards, tools, and delivery methods across engineering and architecture teams.
• Provide thought leadership around engineering best practices and emerging technology trends.
• Act as a change agent, challenging the status quo and driving improvements to how teams build and deliver software.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 10 years of experience building customer-facing software products at scale.
• 5 years of direct people management experience leading engineering teams.
• 5 years of hands-on experience building customer-facing web applications using modern web frameworks and technologies, including React, Redux, Flux, Angular, Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, Java, Couchbase, MongoDB, Akamai, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, and cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
• Proven success engineering and deploying large-scale web products in an agile product development environment.
• Strong hands-on proficiency with JavaScript, Java, and modern web frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable APIs consumed by web and mobile clients.
• Understanding of high-availability, high-performance, and scalable web architectures.
• Ability to dive into technical details, make informed trade-offs, and guide architectural decisions.
• Demonstrated technical competencies including:

– Web architecture & system design

– Modern JavaScript frameworks

– Microservices and API gateway patterns

– Observability, data orchestration, and backend performance tuning

– CI/CD pipelines

– Cloud infrastructure

– Automation frameworks and testing strategies

– Performance and reliability engineering

• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, design, and business teams.
• Strong ability to influence, align stakeholders, and drive clarity in complex delivery environments.
• Ability to build strong working relationship with product, business, design and technical teams across various organization.
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals.
• Ability to lead engineering teams and negotiate or influence across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to shape solutions that meet broader portfolio needs.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn, adopt, and champion new technologies.