Sr. Director - Software Engineering (Java, GenAI, Payment Risk, Cloud, NoSQL - 18+ years' exp)

About the role

This is a deeply technical role for an AI-forward engineering leader who combines organizational leadership with strong hands-on software engineering, architecture and delivery ownership. You will lead a high-performing team of engineers and AI agents responsible for building and operating high-scale, mission-critical, distributed systems that power customer-facing risk and security products.

What you'll do

• Own the technical architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of customer-facing Risk & Security products and platform capabilities
• Translate product strategy into scalable, secure, resilient, and operable distributed systems
• Actively participate in code, design and architecture reviews, root-cause analysis, and contribute code when needed to unblock teams or accelerate critical initiatives
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for agentic development lifecycle, context engineering, code quality evals, performance, scalability, availability
• Partner with Product Management, Cybersecurity, SRE/Operations to deliver solutions that maximize customer value, platform health, and execution predictability

What you need

• 18–30 yrs of experience
• Java
• NoSQL
• LLMs
• CI/CD
• Test automation
• Product strategy
• Any graduate

Good to have

• JavaScript
• Go
• Microservices
• gRPC
• Agile
• Rust