Director of Engineering

Description

Description About the Role

Como is looking for an experienced and driven Director of Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams and play a critical role in shaping the technology and culture of our growing R&D organization. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role where you’ll be responsible for people, process, and technical excellence across your teams.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow several cross-functional engineering teams.
• Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and deliver technical roadmaps and business outcomes.
• Set and maintain high engineering standards for quality, performance, and scalability.
• Drive operational excellence, including agile processes, on-call reliability, SDLC metrics, and technical debt management.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and retention of top engineering talent.
• Champion a positive engineering culture rooted in ownership, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Own the technical and organizational evolution as Como scales its products and infrastructure.
  
  

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Experience managing multiple teams or engineering managers in a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Strong technical background – ideally in modern backend technologies, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and system design.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of building high-performing teams and delivering business-critical products.
• Experience working in Kubernetes-based environments – a plus.
  
  

• Experience in the retail, payments, or customer engagement space.
• Experience building and scaling cloud-based SaaS platforms in a modern infrastructure environment