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Director, Software Engineering at Twenty | LAYIQ

Own engineering execution across the product: delivery, quality, and technical accountability across all teams.
Lead, develop, and hold accountable a set of engineering managers; build their capacity to run their teams independently.
Drive org design decisions: team scope, composition, sequencing of team splits, and addition of new management capacity as the org grows.
Balance engineering capacity across teams; make explicit prioritization calls when demand exceeds supply.
Own the technical roadmap in partnership with the product manager, who owns the product and feature roadmap.
Engage at the architecture level with senior ICs—reviewing designs, providing guidance, and ensuring technical coherence across the platform.
Supervise hiring across engineering teams: set the bar, calibrate across managers, and close strong candidates.
Partner with the VP of Engineering on org strategy, headcount planning, and cross-product engineering initiatives.
Communicate clearly to senior leadership on progress, risks, and tradeoffs across the roadmap.
Ensure engineering practices—security, quality, reliability, and operational discipline—meet the standards required for mission-critical deployments.
Who You Are
You lead through managers: you develop them, hold them accountable, and build the systems that let them succeed independently.
You have the technical depth to engage meaningfully on architecture and design with senior ICs—you don't need to write the code, but you need to understand it.
You think at the org level: headcount, team structure, scope boundaries, and sequencing are as natural to you as roadmap and delivery.
You execute with rigor and communicate with clarity—up to VP and across to peers, without losing the technical truth.
You thrive in hybrid deployment environments: you understand the operational complexity of software that lives both in cloud and on customer-controlled infrastructure.
You hold a high bar and create the conditions for others to meet it—through clarity, coaching, and accountability.
You bring calm, structured decision-making to ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces.
Must Have
You have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
You have 5+ years of engineering management experience, including at least 3 years managing other engineering managers.
You have a track record of owning engineering execution across multiple teams simultaneously, with high quality and clear accountability.
You have the architectural judgment to engage credibly with senior ICs: reviewing designs, identifying risks, and providing technical guidance across a complex, multi-layer stack.
You've owned org design decisions: team structure, scope boundaries, and how to sequence growth as headcount scales.
You've managed engineering organizations serving both cloud-hosted and on-premises or customer-controlled deployment environments.
You've partnered with product managers to translate operational requirements into technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
You've supervised hiring across multiple teams: setting the bar, calibrating across managers, and running a structured, high-signal process.
You must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Nice to Have
You have experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments.
You've led engineering organizations building operational platforms for government or mission-critical customers.
You've worked with graph databases or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems.
You've led teams shipping enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.
You have experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.
You've scaled an engineering organization through a rapid growth phase, including adding management layers.
Tech Environment (You Might Work With)
React + TypeScript for user-facing applications and shared UI components
Go (and sometimes Python) for backend services and integrations
Neo4j and graph-based data modeling for core platform capabilities
PostgreSQL, Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling
Customer private cloud deployment and on-site operational environments

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