Director of Engineering

At LegitScript , we are passionate about making the internet and payment ecosystems safer and more transparent. We help companies of all sizes keep their services legal and safe for consumers. To do this, LegitScript combines big data with the world’s leading team of experts skilled in highly regulated and complex sectors, including transaction laundering detection, pharmaceuticals, online gambling, and more.

The result? Unmatched accuracy and deep risk analysis that identifies which commercial entities play by the rules, and which do not. Our diverse industry partnerships provide unique insights that keep businesses and governments at the forefront of emerging trends. That’s why LegitScript is trusted by the world's largest search engines, internet platforms, payment companies, and regulatory agencies.

Overview:

A plan is only as good as the team that can build it. At LegitScript , the Director of Engineering owns that team. You will lead through engineering managers, set the standard your squads build to, and make sure the software LegitScript promises actually ships. This is a senior technical leadership role: your judgment shapes architecture, estimates, and technical direction, but your leverage comes from the managers and technical leaders you develop, not the code you write yourself.

You will own the integrity of what engineering promises. Every commitment carries an engineering manager's signature on feasibility, approach, and cost, and that signature has to hold up in delivery. You will reduce the drag of maintenance work, make technical debt visible enough to compete for priority on its own merits, and build a reliability practice that keeps on-call sustainable. You will partner as a peer with product leadership, drawing a clean line between what gets built and how it gets built, so every trade-off is a real decision instead of a surprise.

What You'll Do:

- Own delivery across your squads, including capacity planning, forecasting, and clear visibility into where every commitment stands.

- Stand behind the engineering side of every co-signed bet: feasibility, approach, and cost.

- Sequence technical work, surface delivery risk early, and turn a slipping commitment into a decision rather than a surprise.

- Set and hold the standard for engineering quality, including design review, code review, testing, and documentation.

- Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for the services your squads run, and keep on-call sustainable.

- Partner with staff engineers on architecture direction, and make sure squads build on the shared platform rather than around it.

- Reduce operational toil through automation, replatforming, and retirement, and make technical debt visible enough to get funded.

- Lead, coach, and grow engineering managers, owning hiring, performance, and career development.

- Develop tech leads and senior engineers, building a strong technical bench in every squad.

- Define and track engineering health metrics, including delivery predictability, cycle time, deployment frequency, and time to recovery.

- Report progress, risk, and trade-offs to engineering leadership, product, and the executive team with clarity and a clear point of view.

What You'll Bring:

- 10+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years leading engineers, with demonstrable experience leading through other managers or senior technical leaders.

- A track record of delivering complex B2B software, ideally in SaaS, fintech, regtech, compliance, trust and safety, or another domain where accuracy and defensibility matter as much as speed.

- Experience owning delivery across multiple teams at once, including capacity planning, forecasting, and dependency management.

- Credibility on estimation, with a track record of commitments that held and a clear view of how to fix a system that produces bad estimates.

- Experience partnering with a product counterpart as a peer, with a clean boundary between product inten