Director of Software Engineering

This is a remote position.

Director of Software Engineering - Financial Intelligence Platform

About Us

Were a Puerto Rico-based company building a B2B SaaS financial intelligence platform for mid-market US hedge funds. Our platform serves as an AI-powered institutional memory system enabling hedge funds to aggregate analyze and leverage both internal research and external market intelligence.

After two years of focused development were entering our commercial launch phase with a production-ready platform and customers lined up for onboarding. We operate as a fully remote distributed team spanning US Puerto Rico and international locations.

The Role

Were seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead our technical team through commercial launch and scale. This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture decisions code contribution and team management. As we grow this role has a clear path to CTO.

Youll lead a team of 6 engineers building a multi-module Spring Boot application with AI / ML capabilities managing everything from database design to cloud infrastructure to LLM integration.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own technical architecture decisions and system design
• Establish and enforce coding standards review processes and quality gates
• Lead migration and adoption of new technologies as the platform evolves
• Design scalable multi-tenant architecture supporting hedge fund security requirements

Team Management

Hands-On Development

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work Environment

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

Core Stack (Required)

Build & Infrastructure (Required)

Additional Technologies (Required)

Preferred Experience

Qualifications

Benefits

What We Offer

Required Skills :

Required Technical Skills Core Stack (Required) Java 25 with deep understanding of modern Java features (virtual threads pattern matching records) Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7 Spring Security for multi-tenant authorization Spring Data JPA with complex query optimization PostgreSQL including JSONB advanced indexing and performance tuning Build & Infrastructure (Required) Gradle build system (multi-module projects) Docker containerization AWS services : EC2 / ECS RDS S3 SQS CI / CD pipeline design (Jenkins or similar) Linux system administration Additional Technologies (Required) React with TypeScript (frontend collaboration) Elasticsearch for search infrastructure RESTful API design with OpenAPI / Swagger Git workflows and code review practices Preferred Experience Spring Modulith for modular monolith architecture MapStruct for object mapping Apache Tika POI PDFBox for document processing AI / ML integration (LLM APIs embeddings vector databases like pgvector) Financial services or fintech domain experience SOC 2 compliance and security best practices Proxmox or similar virtualization platforms Qualifications 8 years of software engineering experience 3 years leading engineering teams Experience scaling SaaS applications from early stage to production Track record of shipping complex B2B software Strong written communication skills (critical for distributed team) Comfortable working across time zones with async communication Experience with agile methodologies and sprint-based delivery

Key Skills

Go,Lean,Management Experience,React,Node.js,Operations Management,Project Management,Research & Development,Software Development,Team Management,GraphQL,Leadership Experience

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1