Assistant Director, Software Engineering (React/Node.js)

Location: Milwaukee, WI Corporate; hybrid

Salary: $176,000–$264,000 USD annually; geographic-specific structures may apply, including $193,600–$290,400 and $202,400–$303,600.

Company

hirify.global is a financial services company focused on client interests and enterprise investment services.

What you will do

• Define technical direction and delivery plans for Real Estate engineering teams across React applications, Node.js services, REST APIs, data platforms, pipelines, and warehouse models.
• Lead frontend architecture and implementation, including component design, state management, API integration, application structure, and performance optimization.
• Design and build secure, scalable, maintainable backend services and REST APIs using Node.js.
• Guide dimensional warehouse modeling and dbt/Snowflake transformations, including slowly changing dimensions, data lineage, and integration boundaries.
• Establish standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, operational readiness, and technical risk management.
• Lead engineers directly through coaching, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, succession planning, incident response, and cross-functional delivery.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software and data engineering experience, including strong full-stack and data platform expertise.
• Experience leading engineers directly or demonstrated readiness for people leadership, with technical leadership across multiple teams or complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Current hands-on experience architecting and building production React applications, including component architecture, state management, API integration, and frontend performance optimization.
• Current hands-on experience designing and building backend services and REST APIs with Node.js; experience must extend beyond consuming APIs or overseeing service development.
• Strong understanding of dimensional data warehousing, transformation design, slowly changing dimension types, historical data management, database performance tuning, and warehouse cost optimization.
• Experience guiding dbt and Snowflake transformation and warehouse workload troubleshooting, with cost-aware design and data governance controls.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, and observable enterprise systems, modernizing legacy applications and data pipelines, and executing platform migrations with phased cutovers.
• Experience in investment services, defining shared engineering standards across multiple teams, and mentoring engineers to improve engineering maturity.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement based in the Milwaukee corporate location.
• Direct people leadership centered on ownership, quality, learning, constructive feedback, coaching, pairing, and skills development.
• Collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Management, business stakeholders, and other technical leads.
• Focus on secure, scalable, supportable solutions, operational readiness, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Equal opportunity employment and an environment supporting creative ideas, challenges, leadership, and professional development.