Director of Engineering – Hands-On Architect

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About the role

  • Engineering director leading architecture, managers, and delivery for Space Dinosaurs’ high-performance ecommerce platforms. Shaping Next.js, Shopify Plus, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud solutions for global retail brands.

Responsibilities

  • Own delivery outcomes and velocity across delivery teams
  • Diagnose systemic bottlenecks and remove architectural or process blockers
  • Hire, develop, and performance-manage engineering managers, leads, and architects
  • Build the engineering leadership layer
  • Define frontend architecture patterns, rendering strategies, and performance standards for multiple delivery teams
  • Drive story refinement and documentation standards
  • Establish standards and workflow patterns that enable effective AI-agent execution across squads
  • Partner with PMs and stakeholders across time zones
  • Manage competing priorities across client engagements while maintaining delivery quality
  • Coach managers on cross-cultural communication and proactive async collaboration
  • Develop managers' ability to represent technical tradeoffs to non-technical audiences
  • Own people, architecture, and delivery across multiple squads and client engagements
  • Represent Engineering in senior client conversations
  • Shape engineering standards across the organization
  • Remain hands-on on key initiatives, contributing approximately 20–30% of the time

Requirements

  • 5+ years in engineering management
  • Experience managing managers, leads, or architects, not just individual contributors
  • Architectural judgment in modern frontend systems
  • Experience defining Next.js architecture patterns, state management, and performance standards
  • Delivery ownership in agency or professional services environments
  • Experience running client engagements across competing priorities while maintaining quality
  • Strong written and verbal English
  • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across the US, Europe, and LATAM
  • Experience developing managers' communication skills across cultures
  • Evidence of establishing standards and workflow patterns for effective AI-agent use across a squad
  • Experience with spec-driven development, code review for AI-generated output, and coaching engineers to decompose work for reliable agent execution
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud or Shopify Plus/Hydrogen
  • Preferred: familiarity with composable commerce patterns, MACH architecture, or headless CMS platforms
  • Proficiency with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Shopify Plus, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, SCAYLE, Vercel, CI/CD pipelines, Cursor and/or Claude Code, ChatGPT, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Slack, Jira, and Confluence

Benefits

  • Market-aligned pay
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Bonus structures where applicable
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 100% remote work
  • Growth and development opportunities
  • Premium AI tooling licenses (Cursor and/or Claude Code) for the entire team
  • Organizational support for building AI-first delivery practices

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudCypressJavaScriptJestNext.jsReactTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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