Director of Engineering

As a Director of Engineering at Melio, you will provide strategic technical leadership and oversight for multiple engineering teams, driving the vision and execution of key product areas within our B2B payments platform. You will be instrumental in shaping our engineering culture, fostering innovation, and scaling our technical organization to meet ambitious business goals.

You will guide teams leveraging technologies such as React, Node.js, AWS Serverless, and scalable databases to build unique and impactful experiences in the world of B2B payments.

This role requires a leader who is passionate about building high-performing engineering organizations, capable of balancing deep technical expertise with strategic business acumen. You will empower and mentor engineering managers, ensuring technical excellence, operational efficiency, and alignment with overall company objectives.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant expertise in both frontend and backend development.
• 6+ years experience managing and leading multiple teams of engineers, including managing other engineering managers.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with NodeJS.
• Extensive experience in continuous delivery, including advanced automated testing and deployment strategies.
• A profound understanding of complex distributed production systems, scalable web product architecture, and cloud-native environments.
• Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy, influence product roadmaps, and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a strong track record of mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Strategic thinker with an eye for innovation, user experience, and operational excellence.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with large-scale AWS serverless architectures and infrastructure.
• Experience in the FinTech or B2B payments industry.
• Familiarity with TypeScript in a production environment.

How your day is going to look, How you will make an Impact:

• Provide strategic leadership and mentorship to multiple engineering teams and their respective Engineering Managers.
• Define, communicate, and execute the technical vision and roadmap for critical product domains, ensuring alignment with Melio's overall business strategy.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical solutions and deliver high-quality, user-facing features.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle across your domain, from ideation and design to coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Lead talent acquisition efforts for engineering, attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier engineering and leadership talent.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation within your teams.
• Manage budgets, resources, and project prioritization across multiple initiatives.

About Melio:

Melio builds business-to-business (B2B) payment tools so small business owners can spend less time in the back office and more time on their craft. As the fastest-growing B2B payment platform in the US, Melio is working hard to find new and better ways to help small businesses succeed in the ways that work best for them.

About the Hiring Department:

The Engineering department is the backbone of Melio. We design, deliver and monitor technical solutions supporting our customers and the entire organization. We get involved from the early stage of a project, making the connection between customer needs, our product design, and then translating these into solutions.

What's our stack?

In Melio, we are all in with AWS Serverless. Meaning all our services are managed by AWS and our infrastructure is deployed using SAM CLI built over CloudFormation.

Serverless gives us the freedom to build, scale and deploy applications faster than ever. We combine the usage of relational and document DBs, write mainly in TypeScript and Python for consistency and ability to share resources.

As part of an engineering team within a fintech company, you'll have a unique opportunity to make a real impact on Melio, its product, our users and help the company scale.

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