Senior Engineering Manager (Director of Engineering Title)
Location: Tempe/Phoenix, AZ (Remote initially with future hybrid flexibility)
Compensation: Up to $210,000 base salary + significant equity
This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage technology company as its first senior software engineering leader. You will have the autonomy to shape architecture, define engineering standards, build a high-performing team, and influence the future direction of a platform that operates at the intersection of software, automation, real-time systems, and physical-world operations.
The Company
They are an innovative technology business developing software that supports remote operations, automation, and real-time decision-making in complex environments. Their platform combines live data, video, operational workflows, and intelligent automation to solve challenging real-world problems.
With a strong product vision and ambitious growth plans, they are investing heavily in engineering and looking for a technical leader who can turn that vision into a scalable, secure, and reliable platform. The environment is collaborative, mission-driven, and focused on delivering meaningful impact through technology.
The Role
As Director of Engineering, you will act as a hands-on technical leader and strategic people manager. This is a player-coach position suited to someone who enjoys building software while also developing teams and engineering culture.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architect and evolve the software platform across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and integrations
- Write, review, test, and deploy production code
- Evaluate existing systems and determine what should be retained, improved, or rebuilt
- Establish engineering best practices, development workflows, and technical standards
- Own platform reliability, monitoring, security, incident response, and operational excellence
- Partner closely with product, operations, and end users to translate requirements into solutions
- Drive technical decision-making across architecture, tooling, and build-versus-buy considerations
- Recruit and mentor engineers while building a scalable engineering organisation
- Collaborate with AI and automation specialists to integrate modern development approaches and intelligent capabilities
- Lead the transition from early-stage product development to a robust production environment
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on software engineering capability and current coding experience
- Expertise in system architecture and end-to-end platform design
- Full-stack technical understanding across user interfaces, services, data, cloud infrastructure, and integrations
- Commercial experience building and operating real-time applications
- Strong knowledge of reliability, monitoring, debugging, uptime management, and incident response
- Experience taking new products from concept to production
- Ability to establish engineering processes and technical standards from the ground up
- Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools while maintaining high engineering quality standards
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth environments where ambiguity and ownership are key
Highly desirable experience includes autonomous systems, robotics, aerospace, connected devices, geospatial platforms, security technology, live video systems, gaming, simulation environments, AI-enabled products, or operationally critical software.
What They Offer
- Remote working initially with future hybrid flexibility in the Phoenix area
- Opportunity to define technology strategy, architecture, and engineering culture
- Direct influence on product direction and business growth
- Exposure to real-time systems, automation, AI, cloud technologies, video, and hardware integrations
- Clear opportunity to build and lead the engineering function as the company scales
- Collaborative leadership team and high degree of autonomy
How to Apply
If you are a hands-on engineering leader who enjoys building products, shaping technical strategy, and developing high-performing teams, apply today to learn more about this Director of Engineering opportunity.