Role description
Director of Engineering
StepWho you are
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience leading engineering teams and organizations
- Proven experience managing and developing engineering managers and senior engineers
- Strong Computer Science and software engineering fundamentals
- A track record of building and scaling reliable, customer-facing software products
- Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and engineering organizations as products and companies scale
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong product sense and an ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes
- A hands-on, low-ego leadership style with a strong bias toward ownership and execution
- Passion for software quality, engineering excellence, and building teams that move quickly without compromising reliability
- Experience working in fintech, banking, payments, lending, or other highly regulated financial systems
- Experience building products at significant consumer scale
- Experience leading engineering teams through a period of rapid growth or organizational change
- Experience with mobile-first consumer products
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and modern distributed systems
- Experience balancing the demands of security, risk, compliance, reliability, and product velocity
What the job involves
- Step is looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead and grow our engineering organization as we enter our next phase of scale
- You'll work closely with the CTO and leaders across Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and other functions to set technical direction, build high-performing teams, and deliver products that make a meaningful impact for millions of customers
- This is a leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable thinking strategically and getting into the details. You'll help shape our engineering roadmap, architecture, development practices, and organization while maintaining a strong bias toward execution and customer impact
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization, creating an environment where engineers can do their best work
- Partner with the CTO and other company leaders to define and execute Step's technical strategy and engineering roadmap
- Own engineering execution across multiple teams, ensuring we deliver high-quality products with speed and predictability
- Work closely with Product and Design to translate customer and business needs into effective technical strategies and solutions
- Provide technical leadership on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering quality
- Help evolve our systems and development practices to support Step's rapid growth and increasing scale
- Establish and improve engineering processes, standards, and practices without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Build a strong culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent, including hiring and developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Identify and remove technical and organizational bottlenecks that prevent teams from moving quickly
- Balance near-term product delivery with long-term investments in platform, infrastructure, architecture, and technical quality
- Help ensure Step's engineering organization can operate reliably and securely as a financial services company serving millions of customers
- Stay close enough to the technology and product to make informed decisions, challenge assumptions, and contribute when the team needs technical leadership
Benefits
- Competitive Medical, Dental, Mental Health & Wellbeing benefits
- 12 weeks paid parental leave, baby bonus to support unexpected expenses and flexible return to work
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Flexible Work From Home and Time Off Policy
- Stock Options