[Hiring] Engineering Director @Pathstream

Role Description

Pathstream is seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead one or more engineering teams and drive the next chapter of our technical growth. This is a senior member of the engineering leadership team reporting to the SVP of Engineering.

We are looking for someone who has already built a strong foundation in engineering management and technical delivery, and who now brings the maturity, range, and ambition to operate across teams while influencing strategy, engineering culture, and developer productivity.

A core expectation of this role is the ability to advance Pathstream’s AI-native engineering practices. AI adoption is already deeply embedded in how we build software at Pathstream. We are looking for a leader who not only embraces this approach but actively pushes the organization forward in adopting AI-enabled development tools and agentic engineering workflows.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 4 years of hands-on technical work.
• 3–5 years in engineering leadership.
• 3+ years directly managing engineers.
• Proven track record of successfully leading people, teams, or projects across multiple contexts.
• Familiarity with modern web application stacks including Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

Requirements

• Comfortably own the full scope of people management responsibilities.
• Experience managing or influencing across multiple teams.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled development tools and agentic engineering approaches.
• Strong understanding of scalability and system design.
• Curiosity about the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape.

Benefits

• Transparent and social culture, challenging work, fast learning cycles, practical training, and meaningful feedback.
• Strong sense of ownership and strategic work that impacts our product, users, colleagues, business, and world.
• Competitive salary (plus equity) commensurate with experience and location:
• Tier 1 Geo (SF/NYC): $180k - $210k
• Tier 2 Geo: $160k - $190k
• Tier 3 Geo: $143k - $170k
• Comprehensive benefits package:
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and 50% for your partner/spouse and dependents.
• Health, commuter, and parking flexible spending accounts.
• Employee Assistance Program (mental health, financial health, legal support, and more).
• Free access to wellbeing apps like Ginger and Headspace.
• Flexible paid time off and paid holidays.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability insurance.
• Annual professional development budget.
• Company-provided laptop.
• Remote-first culture.
• Life insurance (100% company paid).
• 401(k).