Engineering Director

Your missions 🔥

Define and execute a technical strategy aligned with company goals, and translate it into a clear, actionable roadmap with your teams.
Drive large-scale architectural decisions that balance innovation with scalability, and ensure engineering best practices are known and enforced.
Lead, coach and grow your engineering managers, supporting them in building high-performing, well-organized teams.
Actively participate in recruiting top engineering talent, and foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and high performance.
Develop a strong understanding of customer and user needs, and maintain a close partnership with the Product Director to align technology decisions with business impact.
Manage multiple complex and strategic projects simultaneously, ensuring risk management, timeline adherence, and effective resource allocation.
Work cross-functionally to solve problems across teams and tribes, remove organizational bottlenecks, and drive alignment at company level.
Champion sustainable and responsible tech practices, and represent engineering teams across departments to support the company's transformation into a tech-led organization.

Minimum Qualifications

We welcome individuals with entrepreneurial backgrounds as well as those from established organizations. At Swile, we believe that delivering impactful products requires engineers to understand the needs of users and clients as well as the code itself.

Strong background in software engineering, with a significant portion in senior engineering leadership role

Proven ability to define and execute a technical strategy at scale, translating business goals into clear engineering roadmaps and architectural directions.

Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations: hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent, including engineering managers.

Strong cross-functional leadership: comfortable working at the intersection of product, design, data and business teams, and influencing without authority at executive level.

Deep understanding of engineering culture and best practices — you know how to raise the bar while keeping teams engaged, autonomous and moving fast.

You are a future responsible Swiler: you share our commitment to the environment, diversity, fairness and inclusion, and are prepared to work every day to improve individual and collective performance.

Our tech stack

You do not need to be familiar with our technical stack or any specific functional area, but we have a strong willingness to learn and adapt quickly.

Ruby/Rails, Typescript/React/Node.js, Android(Kotlin), iOS(Swift), AWS/Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Snowflake

💡What’s in it for you ?

An opportunity to lead a dynamic team of talented engineers.
A collaborative work environment that values innovation and creativity.
Competitive salary and benefits package.
Professional development and career growth opportunities.