Director of Software Engineering

Armanino LLP•San Ramon, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about. Armanino is proud to be Among the top 20 Largest Accounting and Consulting Firms in the Nation and one of the Best Places to Work. We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don’t check-out of life when you check-in at work. That’s why we’ve created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas. In this role, you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization that delivers secure, scalable, multi-tenant products—both internal and external facing. You’ll manage product engineering teams plus principal level ICs, set the technical and organizational direction, and raise the bar on architecture, delivery, and talent. You won’t code every day, but you will stay close to the work—leading critical design decisions, sizing, reviews, and technical spikes—while multiplying the impact of every engineer. You’ll leverage AI in both how we build and what we build to deliver real business value, with a pragmatic approach to build, buy, and partner for results.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years in software engineering with hands-on coding and progressive leadership; experience managing managers and principal level ICs.
Experience building successful teams across geographies (including onshore and offshore).
Demonstrated success in recruiting, hiring, and developing teams—establishing clear leveling standards, career paths, and feedback mechanisms.
Proven delivery of multi-tenant, cloud native systems at scale (AWS preferred), including microservices/serverless and evented architectures.
Strong technical judgment; able to lead architecture, sizing, and performance/security tradeoffs; comfortable getting hands-on for critical work.
Expertise in modern delivery practices: CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability, and incident management.
Experience operating within SOC 2 (or similar) expectations; partnering with Security to embed controls into software development lifecycle.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication—able to articulate strategy and trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical audiences.
Solid understanding of software engineering principles, frameworks, and technologies.
Flexibility to work from home while collaborating in person half the time.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and delivering multi-agentic AI workflows to solve enterprise-level problems in secure, scalable ways leveraging technology like AWS Bedrock.
Deep experience in software architecture, including integration with other enterprise systems.
Professional services or accounting background.

Responsibilities

Lead teams of software engineers (and provide technical expertise) in the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, complex software solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology, including agentic AI.
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders, communicating trade-offs, timelines, and risks with clarity.
Manage scope, meet milestones, and deliver results. Know when to be flexible and when to commit.
Recruit, hire, and retain to grow the organization while maintaining a high talent bar and healthy team dynamics.
Develop the team with career paths and clear leveling guidelines.
Raise the bar for impact.
Drive best practices in software development, including agile development, code reviews, testing methodologies, and deployment strategies.
Accelerate the team with the implementation of AI in the software development lifecycle.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and constructive feedback to engineers, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and impact.
Lead the implementation of robust, efficient, and maintainable code using modern technologies such as AWS serverless offerings.
Own vendor relationships and integration strategies.
Manage engineering spend across cloud, tools, and vendors—balancing cost efficiency with speed and scalability.
Keep up to date with the latest tools and best practices and guide the team on when and to use them.