Director of Engineering

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://prismatic.io/">Prismatic</a> is the integration platform that helps B2B software companies build integrations fast and deliver them at scale. We're turning integrations from a bottleneck into a growth driver for hundreds of companies, from high-growth startups to Fortune 500s.</p> <p>Our platform handles everything that breaks at scale, so teams can ship integrations, not infrastructure. It provides flexible, AI-enabled build experiences through code-native, low-code, and an embedded workflow builder, plus self-service configuration and an embedded marketplace.</p> <p>Prismatic is well-funded with strong product-market fit and a high-agency, driven, collaborative culture.</p></div><p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>We're hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the Engineering organization. This role reports directly to the CTO and is the single engineering leader across two teams currently totaling 8 engineers, with a plan towards ~12. This is not a manager-of-managers role today, you’ll be directly managing the team. The ideal candidate is someone excited to directly lead a team of high performing Senior+ Engineers. Beyond the people management side, you'll own the full scope of execution: process, feature delivery, quality, while maintaining a highly engaged group of people.</p> <p>Prismatic is built primarily in TypeScript (both frontend and backend), with some Python and Django on the backend and React on the frontend. We build a sophisticated low-code integration builder, an SDK and tools for building integrations fully in TypeScript, and features powering our customers' AI agent functionality. All of this on top of a high-scale, performance critical platform. While this is not a hands-on building role, being confident in the technology, and the challenges of a scaling a developer facing SaaS platform will be crucial to high quality decision making.</p> <p><strong>What will you do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Partner with Product to drive execution across all initiatives; on-time delivery, quality and consistency.</li> <li>Manage, coach, and grow all engineers directly, regular 1:1s, high-quality feedback, and growth conversations.</li> <li>Staff each initiative and pair it with the right Tech Lead; develop the Tech Lead bench so ownership keeps spreading.</li> <li>Surface and resolve cross-initiative risks: staffing gaps, priority collisions, delivery delays.</li> <li>Contribute to hiring: help us find, close, and ramp the next several engineers.</li> <li>Contribute technically where it helps, this isn't day-to-day code, but helping with architecture review, tech-debt analysis, scaling challenges, etc.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About you:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Demonstrated progression from a technical role to a leadership role, with demonstrated experience managing multiple teams of Engineers in a fully remote environment.</li> <li>You've operated as the senior-most engineering leader in a group, or close to it; comfortable being the only manager, without a layer beneath you.</li> <li>Significant technical experience in at least one area of our stack; able to speak credibly in architecture and scoping conversations.</li> <li>Proven partner to Product on scope, estimation, and delivery commitments.</li> <li>Experience managing remote teams; excellent written communication</li> <li>Thrives on accountability, bias to action, strong desire to empower individuals and win as a team.</li> <li>Experience at a scaling SaaS startup in varying roles.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus if you have experience with/in:</strong></p> <ul> <li>AI-enabled software development</li> <li>Developer-facing products</li> <li>High scale SaaS platforms</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our tech stack:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Cloud - AWS</li> <li>Databases - Postgres, Redis</li> <li>Backend API - Python &amp; Django</li> <li>Backend Integration Platform - Typescript</li> <li>Frontend - Typescript &amp; React</li> <li>SDKs - Typescript</li> </ul> <p><strong>Pay range:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The pay range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000/yr, plus equity&nbsp;</li> <li>Most new hires start near the midpoint based on their relevant experience, skills, and qualifications, with room to grow within the range over time.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h3>Life at Prismatic</h3> <h4>Our Values</h4> <p>Our values shape everything we do—how we make decisions, collaborate, and operate day to day.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Give a Shit</strong> – We bring passion and drive to our work. We believe what we're doing matters and we treat it that way.</li> <li><strong>Progress Over Perfection</strong> – We value daily progress, moving fast, and iterating. We prefer a good solution now over a perfect one later.</li> <li><strong>Same Team</strong> – We recognize that we succeed or fail as a group and help each other out. We don't tolerate assholes.</li> </ul> <h4>What to expect at Prismatic</h4> <p class="whitespace-normal break-words">We operate with urgency, ownership, and high standards. You'll be joining a team that's highly engaged, customer-obsessed, and constantly solving new problems that help B2B software companies scale their integration strategies.</p> <p class="whitespace-normal break-words">To support this pace, we're also intentional about sustainability. We offer comprehensive benefits, unlimited PTO, and top-tier equipment for remote work.&nbsp;</p> <h4>Benefits</h4> <p>🏡 <strong>Remote work:</strong> Our team works remotely across the US; we travel together 2x times a year for company kick-offs and mid-year meetings.<br>🏖️ <strong>Unlimited PTO:</strong> We have an unlimited &amp; flexible paid time off (PTO) policy that encourages our team to recharge when they need to.<br>🏥 <strong>Medical, dental &amp; vision:</strong> Prismatic offers high-quality medical (Cigna Medical), dental (Guardian Dental) and vision (Guardian VSP) care for full-time employees and their dependents.<