Career Team - Director of Engineering

• You’re fluent in modern cloud architecture and comfortable with the messy middle of scaling fast. • You can move from system design to executive conversation without missing a beat. • You’re hands-on when needed, but you’re always building people, processes, and tools. • You simplify complicated systems and build the guardrails to keep them simple. • You anticipate the technical risk before it becomes an outage, and always know your audience. • You’re calm, direct, and you follow through. • Demonstrated experience hiring, growing, and leading engineering teams through a period of meaningful scale. • Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services in production environments. • Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes on AWS (EKS), container registries (ECR), and Docker-based build and deploy pipelines. • Proven ownership of observability stacks in AWS: CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, Alarms, CloudTrail, X-Ray, and structured logging practices. • Production experience with Node.js frameworks (e.g., Express, NestJS, Fastify) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript service design. • Strong MongoDB experience: data modeling, indexing, performance tuning, and operating at scale (Atlas or self-managed). • A track record of hands-on leadership on large, technically ambiguous projects; you’ve been the person teams look to when the stakes are highest. • How We Work • High trust, high accountability • We obsess about our customers • We value action over perfection, and iterate to get better every day • We offer a competitive compensation package that is commensurate with experience and aligned with current U.S. market standards for remote roles. • Career Team’s outstanding record of accelerating the human condition has resulted in numerous honors: • accelerating the human condition • Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies • Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation • Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program • Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider • As a socially conscious organization, Career Team has found a healthy balance between for-profit innovation and community enrichment. Looking ahead, the organization will continue to close the nation’s opportunity divide with additional government-funded workforce sites; while also building staff capacity of workforce funding sources and industry providers. See www.careerteam.com for more information. • www.careerteam.com • California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA").  Career Team is committed to complying with the CCPA and all data privacy and laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. Career Team collects and uses Personal Information for human resources, employment, benefits administration, health and safety, and business-related purposes and to be in legal compliance. Below are the categories of Personal Information we collect and the purposes for which we intend to use this information: • California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). • Identifying information, such as your full name, gender, date of birth, and signature; Demographic data, such as race, ethnic origin, marital status, disability, and veteran or military status; Contact information, such as your home address, telephone numbers, email addresses, and emergency contact information; Dependent's or other individual's information, such as their full name, address, date of birth, and Social Security numbers (SSN); National identifiers, such as SSN, passport and visa information, and immigration status and documentation; Educational and professional background, such as your work history, academic and professional qualifications, educational records, references, and interview notes; Employment details, such as your job title, position, hire dates, compensation, performance and disciplinary records, and vacation and sick leave records; Financial information, such as banking details, tax information, payroll information, and withholdings; Health and Safety information, such as health conditions (if relevant to your employment), job restrictions, workplace illness and injury information, and health insurance policy information; Information Systems (IS) information, such as your search history, browsing history, login information, and IP addresses on the Company's information systems and networks; Biometric information, such as facial recognition, fingerprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, or other physical patterns; and Geolocation data, such as time and physical location related to use of an internet website, application, device, or physical access to a Company office location. • Identifying information • Demographic data • Dependent's or other individual's information • National identifiers • Educational and professional background • Employment details • Financial information • Health and Safety information • Information Systems (IS) information • Biometric information • Geolocation data • The Company collects Personal Information to use or disclose as appropriate to: • (1) Comply with all applicable laws and regulations; (2) Recruit and evaluate job applicants and candidates for employment; (3) Conduct background checks; (4) Manage your employment relationship with us, including for: (a) onboarding processes; (b) timekeeping, payroll, and expense report administration; (c) employee benefits administration; (d) employee training and development requirements; (d) the creation, maintenance, and security of your online employee accounts; (e) reaching your emergency contacts when needed, such as when you are not reachable or are injured or ill; (f) workers' compensation claims management; (g) employee job performance, including goals and performance reviews, promotions, discipline, and termination; and (h) other human resources purposes; (5) Manage and monitor employee access to company facilities, equipment, and systems; (6) Conduct internal audits and workplace investigations; (7) Investigate and enforce compliance with and potential breaches of Company policies and procedures; (8) Engage in corporate transactions requiring review of employee records, such as for evaluating potential mergers and acquisitions of the Company; (9) Maintain commercial insurance policies and coverages, including for workers' compensation and other liability insurance; (10) Perform workforce analytics, data analytics, and benchmarking; (11) Administer and maintain the Company's operations, including for safety purposes; (12) For client marketing purposes; (13) Exercise or defend the legal rights of the Company and its employees, and affiliates, customers, contractors, and agents; and (14) to comply with requirements of government grants, including, but not limited to, program and audit requirements.