Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads hands-on development of an ultra-low-latency C++ electronic trading platform for equities and derivatives. Designs core trading, market data, order execution, and market-making systems; optimizes latency, concurrency, networking, and hardware interaction; partners with traders and quantitative researchers; operates production systems; and establishes engineering standards, testing, and performance practices.

Leads multiple software engineering departments and technical areas, setting firmwide strategy for biometric platforms, agentic AI-enabled engineering, SDLC automation, release governance, testing, resilience, and incident response. Oversees cross-channel biometric architecture, fraud and presentation-attack defenses, identity lifecycle management, responsible biometrics, privacy, security, and operational performance. Influences executives and senior stakeholders across a complex organization while driving adoption, governance, reliability, and measurable engineering capacity improvements.

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization, setting strategy for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database reliability, capacity, availability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform standardization. Manages three Engineering Managers, develops technical leaders, oversees hiring and organization design, establishes objectives and KPIs, manages budgets, partners cross-functionally on platform investments, and serves as an escalation point for database incidents and operational processes.

Leads Statara’s Data Products & Engineering department, setting technical direction, managing teams, and overseeing Snowflake-based data infrastructure. Shapes scalable adtech and customer data solutions, supports pre-sales and client discussions, guides architecture and validation, and aligns Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Business Development. The role balances platform reliability, data governance, product roadmaps, commercial opportunities, and the conversion of custom solutions into repeatable data products.

Leads tax technology initiatives by directing software architecture, application design, coding, testing, integration, and client-facing solution delivery. Sets strategic direction, develops roadmaps, drives business growth, evaluates AI and emerging technologies, guides cross-functional teams, coaches leaders, and ensures professional and independence standards. Translates tax requirements into scalable engineering strategies while improving service delivery and business performance.

Leads AWS-native application engineering initiatives across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and modernization. Sets technical direction, oversees multiple delivery workstreams, guides AI-enabled engineering practices, and develops scalable cloud solutions. Builds executive client relationships, shapes transformation roadmaps, supports business development, mentors engineering teams, and drives application performance, security, reliability, and cloud modernization across AWS and other major cloud platforms.

Leads CoreWeave’s multidisciplinary data center engineering organization and sets technical direction for its global portfolio. Governs Basis of Design documents, reference designs, standards, and long-term infrastructure roadmaps. Oversees integrated engineering across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, controls, and life-safety disciplines; leads technical reviews, innovation, reliability, sustainability, supplier engagement, and resource planning. Partners with design, construction, commissioning, operations, technology, and supply chain teams to deliver scalable, high-density AI infrastructure.

Leads multiple software engineering teams and defines enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps. Partners with product and executive leaders to deliver scalable full-stack solutions, improve engineering practices, and ensure system resilience. Responsibilities include talent development, succession planning, architectural governance, Agile delivery, AWS deployments, and innovation involving distributed systems, machine learning, and agentic AI tools.

Lead the Financial Incentives (FIN) engineering function end-to-end (ingestion, eligibility, adjudication, accumulation, payments/treasury). Own correctness, reliability, security, roadmap, hiring and development of managers and senior ICs. Stay hands-on with design, code, and incidents; establish validation standards, event-driven boundaries, AI-native engineering practices, and partner cross-functionally with CTO, Product, Finance, and Operations.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, a single-tenant enterprise SaaS platform. Owns strategy, roadmap, reliability, compliance, infrastructure investments, customer migrations, and enterprise-grade SLAs. Oversees distributed engineering managers and teams across orchestration, resilience, control-plane APIs, public-sector platforms, FedRAMP readiness, AWS GovCloud, and migration tooling. Partners with executives, Product, Security, and Support while scaling the organization, improving operational efficiency, and incorporating AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Leads Deepgram’s GTM Engineering function, owning CRM, CPQ, forecasting, billing, data, integrations, automation, and internal tooling. Translates commercial needs into scalable systems and AI-powered workflows, establishes engineering standards, connects usage and revenue data, and partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data teams. This player-coach role designs, codes, tests, ships production systems, and develops a small team while prioritizing automation and operational leverage.

Owns Accenture’s Code Archaeology discipline, including evidence-first discovery methodology, knowledge graph and analysis tooling, language coverage, and architecture handoffs. Leads the technical point of view through client architecture councils, conference presentations, and thought leadership. Requires extensive enterprise software engineering and brownfield modernization experience, knowledge graphs, ontology modeling, static and dependency analysis, Git mining, LLM-assisted code analysis, and productized offering ownership.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Leads the strategy, architecture, development, delivery, modernization, and support of enterprise quality engineering platforms, AI-enabled tools, developer enablement solutions, and shared services. Oversees multiple software engineering teams, cloud-native application development, platform reliability, CI/CD, AI integration, security, and operational excellence. Partners with product, architecture, security, DevOps, and business leaders while managing delivery, technical direction, resource allocation, talent development, and organizational growth.

Leads the Merchant & Pay engineering organization, overseeing managers and teams responsible for merchant, partner, payment, and internal tooling systems. Owns technical strategy, multi-year roadmaps, reliability, scalability, security, engineering standards, and generative AI adoption. Partners with Product, Data, Security, and company leadership while recruiting, developing, and retaining engineering talent. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience, AWS expertise, marketplace or payments experience, and experience scaling business-critical platforms.

Leads global developer platform and AI infrastructure capabilities supporting approximately 300 software and data engineers. Responsibilities include platform strategy, high-availability infrastructure, internal IT operations, AI tooling and governance, cost and security controls, enterprise AI adoption, and development of high-performing engineering leadership teams.

Directs multiple application development engineering teams responsible for enterprise software design, development, modernization, maintenance, and delivery. Provides technical strategy, architecture guidance, development best practices, risk management, and cross-functional coordination with infrastructure, security, and SRE teams. Oversees project quality, schedules, costs, and operational stability while recruiting, coaching, and developing engineering talent. The role is remote within the United States and requires business travel 2–3 times per quarter.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of high-performance, real-time equities trading interfaces. Builds reusable UI components and application services, partners with traders and engineering teams, establishes frontend standards, modernizes legacy systems, and mentors engineers. The role requires deep expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and data-intensive user experiences, plus experience with testing, CI/CD, observability, and streaming APIs.

Leads Oura’s Women’s Health software engineering organization, overseeing managers and technical leaders while partnering across Product, Design, Science, Clinical, Regulatory, and Data Science. Drives high-impact consumer software delivery, organizational transformation, engineering strategy, talent development, and AI-native development workflows. The role requires strong technical and product judgment across architecture, data, quality, reliability, privacy, and speed, with responsibility for building a high-performing organization and trusted health experiences.

Leads large-scale building operating systems and IoT engineering programs, including BMS connectivity, controls, security compliance, fault detection, predictive maintenance, and asset management. Serves as a trusted client advisor, oversees project delivery and reporting, presents technical solutions, and manages a team of engineering subject matter experts. Develops resource plans, succession strategies, and professional growth programs while supporting facilities, sustainability, business continuity, and lifecycle asset initiatives.

Leads a global engineering portfolio for BNY’s Enterprise Custody Services Platform. Responsibilities include platform modernization, scalable and resilient technology delivery, engineering excellence, AI and automation adoption, risk and operational governance, budgeting, workforce planning, and talent development. The role partners with product, architecture, operations, risk, and senior business leaders to align engineering investments with strategic priorities and improve delivery, quality, efficiency, and client outcomes.

Leads approximately 35 engineers across data engineering, integration engineering, and integration support. Owns delivery predictability, manager development, operational reliability, SLA performance, data platform modernization, integration scalability, and organizational clarity. Partners with product, data science, commercial, and delivery teams while overseeing healthcare integrations with EHR systems, enterprise data infrastructure, incident management, and client-facing reliability commitments.

Lead multiple technology areas and departments for Equity Derivatives Technology, define firmwide AI-enabled engineering and SDLC automation strategy, establish governance and guardrails for AI use, drive cloud-native practices, oversee cross-product delivery, and influence senior stakeholders to improve speed, scalability, reliability, and cost-to-serve.

Leads multiple platform and infrastructure engineering teams responsible for backend services, APIs, developer platforms, reliability, scalability, and AI enablement. Owns technical strategy, capacity planning, operational excellence, incident response, and platform roadmaps. Partners with product and engineering leaders, communicates risks and investments to executives, and hires and develops senior engineering managers. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience scaling high-availability consumer, UGC, or marketplace platforms.

Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for Fetch’s advertiser experience and Ad Manager platform. Set technical strategy, guide architecture, modernize and migrate established tooling, and deliver scalable advertiser workflows for campaign planning, buying, budgeting, and reporting. Partner with Product, Design, Sales, GTM, and AdOps to align priorities and outcomes. Develop engineering leaders, improve delivery effectiveness, and shape AI-assisted advertiser experiences while maintaining reliability, security, transparency, and user control.