Senior Director of Engineering

3 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Interpro People Full time
Job Title: Senior Director of Engineering

This is a pivotal leadership role at Interpro People, where you will lead our engineering team through a period of rapid growth. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in scaling platforms and teams, coupled with deep expertise in distributed systems architecture.

About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Director of Engineering to join our team. This individual will be responsible for leading our engineering efforts, driving innovation, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our platform.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the scaling of platforms and engineering teams during rapid growth, managing increasing complexity and ensuring platform stability as the user base and workload expand.
• Recruit, develop, and lead engineering teams across diverse geographical locations, including Australia, India, Sri Lanka, and beyond.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture, driving team development and managing performance across multiple regions.
• Design and implement distributed systems that handle large-scale data and high availability.
• Architect microservices solutions, data partitioning, service orchestration, and event-driven architectures.
• Ensure system scalability and reliability, with a focus on performance tuning, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
• Familiarity with technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, and cloud-native solutions is essential.
• Manage asynchronous communication and data processing through message brokers such as Azure Service Bus, Kafka, and Rabbit MQ.

Outcome and Impact-Focused Leadership:
• Drive strategies to enhance developer productivity and efficiency through optimized workflows, automation, and streamlined CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce best practices in code quality, testing, and release management.
• Lead initiatives that improve software quality metrics and team performance.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the engineering teams, aligning them with business goals, and continuously drive improvements based on insights.

Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have:
• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including scaling platforms and teams.
• Strong understanding of both scale-up dynamics and the processes of larger organizations.
• Expertise in recruiting, developing, and leading diverse teams across global locations.
• Deep technical knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working with global stakeholders, including evening meetings with UK/US teams.
• Strong focus on outcomes and delivering impact by improving developer productivity, enforcing best practices, and driving measurable improvements across the engineering organization.

What We Offer:
We offer a competitive compensation package, with a salary range of $180,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience. Additionally, we provide opportunities for professional growth and development, a dynamic work environment, and a chance to make a significant impact in a high-growth industry.

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