Director, Software Engineering - Full Stack and Process Automation

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for one or more product offerings under Payment Platform Development, Cardholder Applications Development group.
• Manage resources in Austin, ensuring delivery and operational excellence of services built on full-stack and process automation technologies.
• Coach and guide team members to achieve project goals.
• Participate in application architecture, feature design, network topology, and application scalability planning.
• Own the process of bringing applications from whiteboard concept to live deployment.
• Support agile end-to-end development processes within DevOps practices, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide technical insights for release planning, including user story breakdown, task assignment, and backlog grooming.
• Design and develop scalable, resilient, secure, and decoupled services.
• Implement alerting for production errors and gather behavioral and performance metrics.
• Collaborate with business teams, architects, and senior technologists to ensure product vision and quality delivery.
• Design and improve internal development methodologies utilizing .NET and supporting technologies.
• Ensure operational excellence for full-stack services.
• Identify and utilize industry best practices to maximize solution efficiency and minimize costs.
• Collaborate with global IT teams and business users across time zones.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 years with an Advanced degree, or 4 years with a PhD, or 13+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience managing onsite and virtual teams of 6 or more members.
• Hands-on experience with full stack technologies such as .NET, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Angular/React, JavaScript, SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and Design Patterns.
• Experience in process and desktop automation technologies.
• Experience with RESTful API development and standards like OAuth and SAML.
• Proficiency with NoSQL and SQL datastores including MySQL and MongoDB.
• Experience with agile development, CI/CD tools like GIT, Maven, Jenkins.
• Experience in designing and developing large-scale, high-availability distributed systems.
• Ability to drive deep application and system architecture discussions.
• Strong research skills and a passion for understanding and improving products.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to navigate ambiguity.

Nice to Have

• Java technologies hands-on experience.
• Experience with Hadoop large data processing systems.

Qualifications

• Educational qualifications as specified in the requirements (Bachelor's, Advanced degree, or PhD).

Benefits & Perks

• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Salary range: $160,600 - $232,900 USD per year
• Potential for bonus and equity
• Comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Wellness Program