Dir Software Engineering

Hertz•Atlanta, GA

1d•$175,000

About The Position

The Director of Software Engineering is a hands-on, strategic technology leader in the Product Engineering organization responsible for building, scaling, and modernizing the platforms and services that power Hertz’s pricing and rate management capabilities across all brands (Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty), countries, and partners. This role blends deep technical leadership, people development, and platform ownership. You will lead globally distributed engineering teams while remaining close to the code, architecture decisions, and delivery outcomes. You will partner closely with Product, Revenue Management, and downstream consuming teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems that support the end-to-end rates lifecycle: from price definition and rule management to distribution and auditability. You will help define how Hertz builds software: modern architectures, engineering culture, delivery excellence, and platform reliability on a global scale.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience, 10+ years of Software Engineering experience designing and implementing solutions using cloud native technologies and Agile methodologies
Strong track record with modern development practices including AWS technolgies.
Strong foundational understanding in Computer Science fundamentals and design patterns.
Strong communication skills in articulating technical details to both technical and non-technical audience.
Experience implementing enterprise integration and modernization patterns (abstract, surround, strangle) to integrate cloud-native solutions with legacy enterprise systems and data sources, including leading migrations of critical domains with minimal business disruption.
A pattern of success on teams using Agile Methodologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Results driven, ability to make decisions and help solve problems
Ability to build and lead a diverse, high-performing, results-oriented, and highly-engaged team.
Ability to drive process and organizational change.
Ability to motivate teams and keep a positive attitude in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work under minimal supervision with a goal-oriented mindset.
Ability to see the big picture and leverage critical thinking and decision-making skills.
Excellent organization, time management, delegation, and prioritization skills.
Courageous leadership and accountability.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, build, and modernization of rates systems supporting multi-brand, multi-country, and franchise operations
Own the future-state architecture for pricing and rates platforms, ensuring scalability, configurability, performance, and regulatory compliance across regions
Be adaptive across modern and legacy technologies; define and execute migration approaches (e.g., surround/strangle, incremental refactoring) that safely move critical pricing capabilities to target-state architectures
Collaborate with cross functional leaders on your product teams (product management, design) to develop and execute backlogs & roadmaps
Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, technical design, and selective pairing with senior engineers
Build and lead high-performing global engineering teams (onshore, nearshore, offshore)
Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent; drive career paths, rotations, and learning plans
Establish and evolve engineering standards: cloud-native patterns, APIs, event-driven systems, resiliency, and observability
Drive a culture of ownership, quality, speed, and empathy
Ensure platforms are secure, compliant, highly available, and operationally excellent
Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align on shared services and technology strategy
Stay current with new technology trends in the platform, AI, streaming and IoT space
Ensure high quality, consistent, easy to use and compliance software solutions