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# Director, Software Engineering

- **Company:** Coda Search
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, AI Coding Agents
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_f8c9b4b519ce384ad6cef2d81b89a7f8

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.