[Hiring] Director of Engineering @MANSON WESTERN LLC

Role Description

Clinicians, schools, and hospitals rely on WPS assessments to evaluate autism, learning differences, and developmental needs. WPS is looking for an engineering leader to build and run the organization behind the software those professionals depend on — including WPS Hub, our digital assessment platform.

As Director of Engineering, you’ll lead WPS’s engineering strategy, structure, talent, budget, and delivery within the technology direction set by the Head of Technology. You’ll move WPS from partner-delivered to in-house engineering, build a nearshore team from the ground up, and shape an AI-first engineering organization that WPS owns and that efficiently ships high-impact products. You’re a people leader and organization builder first, and a player-coach: hands-on in architecture, code review, and releases in your first year, then shifting toward coaching and developing leaders as the team scales.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers or team leads.
• Earlier career experience as a hands-on senior software engineer (full stack or back-end preferred), with strong foundations in system design and data architecture.
• Track record of designing and building an engineering organization, including adding management layers as it scaled.
• Experience leading an engineering organization through a major transition, such as moving from vendor-delivered to in-house or nearshore delivery.
• Experience building or managing distributed or nearshore teams, including partner selection and contract terms.
• Experience owning an engineering budget, including external partner spend.
• Demonstrated experience building shared AI workflows and tooling that an engineering team adopted, with measurable results.
• Sound judgment with AI tools: knowing when to use them, how to evaluate their output, and how to ship responsibly in a high-trust domain.
• Experience shipping production software in a high-accuracy, high-trust, or regulated environment, and modernizing an existing platform while continuing to ship.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), modern CI/CD, and automated testing.
• A people leadership track record that former direct reports will vouch for, including building performance management and career development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years in a high-rigor engineering environment, such as a fast-scaling technology company.
• Experience in healthcare, education, assessment, publishing, or other expert-content domains.

Benefits

• $230,000 – $250,000 annually

Core Competencies

• Organization Building: Designs, hires, and develops engineering teams and leaders; adds structure and management layers as the organization scales.
• AI-First Engineering: Builds shared AI workflows and standards that measurably improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
• Delivery Leadership: Owns the SDLC end to end and leads major delivery-model transitions without disrupting customer value.
• Technical Depth: Reviews code, challenges architecture decisions, and earns credibility with senior engineers.
• Executive Communication: Communicates clearly with non-technical leaders and partners; makes sound decisions quickly in ambiguous environments.