The Acceptance Solutions (AS) team is undergoing a transformation to uphold its leading market position and strong brand reputation in both the enterprise and small business sectors. The Director of Software Engineering will provide hands-on leadership to guide the team in achieving this mission by defining, executing, and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale swiftly, while fostering a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.
Requirements
- Expertise with the Java platform or higher
- Expertise with Spring, Vertx, framework or similar
- Experience building microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML.
- Experience with Messaging systems like Kafka, IBM MQ
- Experience with relationship and NoSQL database
- Experience with AI modelling and tooling
- Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the entire development lifecycle of solutions and manage complex projects with significant financial impact.
- Lead several teams composed of both full-time employees and contractors.
- Ensure product delivery despite complex technical interdependencies with teams across different regions.
- Adopt a GenAI-first mindset to enable faster development and bring in innovations
- Offer technical leadership to the development team through design participation, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, focusing on quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience, etc.
- Manage the prioritization and delivery of platform enhancements and bug fixes.
Other
- This position is based in Austin and reports to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
- 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
- Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation skills.
- Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
