Engineering Director

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead independently across ambiguous business and technology domains at a pivotal moment for Dezerv. This is a Business Partner level role: you'll own the strategic direction of an entire business or multiple businesses irrespective of product boundaries, managing multiple teams — or a significantly large single team — of senior engineers and the managers who lead them.

What You'll Own

• Team Leadership & People Growth
• Technical & Business Direction
• Execution & Influence

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of total software engineering experience, with 5+ years managing teams of 20+ engineers spanning multiple teams led by multiple engineering managers.
• A track record of leading independently in ambiguous business and technology domains, owning strategic direction across an entire business not a single product.
• Demonstrated ability to grow senior engineers into principal-level talent and to develop other engineering managers.
• Strong technical depth in one or more of: distributed systems, backend architectures, API design, data infrastructure with the ability to simplify and evolve architecture across multiple systems for scale, performance, and reduced maintenance
• Proven high judgement on high-cost, high-risk decisions, including buy vs. build vs. outsource trade-offs and decisions on the future of products and architectures.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/LLM-based tools into engineering workflows or product surfaces you understand both the potential and the limits
• Experience shipping products at scale in fast-paced, high-growth tech organizations (fintech preferred).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align and influence cross- functional stakeholders including founders, department heads, and external partners.
• A builder's mindset pragmatic, comfortable with complete ambiguity, and genuinely curious about where new - age tech is headed in software engineering.