Director, Software Engineering

• Lead a multi-team organization: You’ll run a logistics engineering group with five engineering managers and a principal engineer reporting to you.
• Software tied to real operations: Your teams build the systems behind warehouse, transportation, labor, and billing operations, so your results show up in cost and delivery performance.
• Set the standard: You’ll define what strong management, architecture, and execution look like across the group.
• Lead AI-enabled engineering: You’ll drive adoption of AI coding tools and workflows and show the productivity gains.
• Backing to invest: The company is growing quickly and is well capitalized to keep investing in engineering., * Lead through managers: Set clear performance expectations, coach managers with direct feedback, and develop the next generation of engineering leaders.
• Address performance: Handle underperformance decisively and build a high-performing organization.
• Guide architecture: Review system design decisions across teams and challenge technical plans that don’t align with business priorities.
• Own production quality: Maintain strong production ownership, reliability, and engineering quality for systems that run daily operations.
• Balance speed and sustainability: Keep teams shipping quickly while making technical decisions that hold up over time.
• Hold teams accountable: Delegate outcomes to your managers and hold them accountable for delivery.
• Partner with the business: Work with operations and finance stakeholders to connect engineering priorities to measurable business results.

• You’ve led managers: You bring 5+ years of engineering leadership, including leading engineering managers and senior individual contributors.
• You’re an engineer at heart: You have a strong software engineering foundation and know how to build and operate production software.
• You make technical calls: You evaluate system design and tradeoffs, challenge plans, and make decisions quickly.
• You’ve improved an engineering org: You can point to measurable gains in delivery, quality, or team performance that you drove.
• You can get to Atlanta: You’re based in the US and can travel to the Atlanta area as needed; Atlanta-based leaders may be onsite about two days per week in the future.
• Bonus points: Experience with logistics, warehouse, transportation, or fulfillment software is a plus.

Compensation: $200,000 to $235,000 + Bonus + Equity package

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision / L&STD Insurance / 401(k) + match / HSA / Flexible PTO / paid parental leave

Coda Search is proud to partner with a high-growth commerce and logistics technology company on a Director, Software Engineering hire.