Director, Software Engineering (Fintech)

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Company

hirify.global is a commercial bank developing digital banking experiences for business clients.

What you will do

• Own the engineering strategy and multi-year modernization roadmap for Fifth Third Direct.
• Lead the decomposition of legacy applications into modular front-end, back-end, API, event-driven, and shared-service components.
• Define cloud, container, data, integration, migration, and production-readiness strategies while maintaining existing platform reliability.
• Coordinate dependencies across Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Security, Data, engineering teams, and external partners.
• Establish engineering standards, metrics, operational controls, and delivery priorities for high-volume commercial digital channels.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and individual contributors while building succession and workforce plans.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant people leadership and accountability for complex technology delivery.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience modernizing large customer-facing legacy platforms while maintaining critical production services and business commitments.
• Deep experience decomposing monolithic applications into modular front-end, back-end, API, event-driven, and shared-service components.
• Strong knowledge of containerized and cloud-native engineering, orchestration, platform engineering, automated infrastructure, CI/CD, secure development, observability, resilience, and production operations.
• Experience defining hosting and migration strategies across interfaces, services, integrations, and data, including hybrid environments.
• Experience leading high-volume digital platforms and multi-team programs with demanding availability, performance, security, scalability, and cross-functional dependency requirements.
• Working knowledge of authentication, authorization, entitlements, privacy, fraud, risk, controls, agile, and product operating principles in regulated digital experiences.
• Ability to shape roadmaps, manage technical debt, make tradeoffs, coach leaders, grow talent, and lead change across organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Leadership experience in commercial banking, treasury management, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience with commercial digital banking capabilities such as payments, transaction approvals, entitlements, reporting, administration, or client servicing.
• Experience with Kubernetes or comparable orchestration technologies and public or private cloud platforms.
• Experience with API-first, event-driven, micro-frontend, or domain-oriented architectures at enterprise scale.
• Experience delivering platform conversions, incremental migrations, parallel operations, client pilots, and legacy decommissioning.
• Experience partnering with third-party technology providers, payment networks, or processors.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with comprehensive benefits and differentiated compensation offerings.
• Benefits support employees’ physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being.
• Inclusive culture and equal employment opportunity across employment decisions.
• Role is eligible for incentive compensation based on company, business-line, and individual performance.

Hiring process

• Applications from staffing agencies without an active agreement with Fifth Third are not accepted.