Deputy Director of Technology

Role Description

We are looking for someone who would lead INFUSE’s technology function, scaling a high-performing engineering organization while delivering secure, AI-native products on a modern stack.

• Own the technology strategy and execution roadmap across backend and frontend, ensuring delivery predictability, quality, and performance.
• Lead and develop engineering leaders and teams (hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, coaching, and career ladders).
• Drive architecture and engineering standards for our stack:
  • Node.js (latest LTS), NestJS, pnpm, esbuild on the backend;
  • React, Vue 3, Vite, pnpm on the frontend (with strong typing practices and modern engineering standards).
• Build an AI-native engineering culture: identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases, set patterns for safe AI adoption, and define developer workflows for rapid iteration with appropriate governance.
• Own edge and security posture with Cloudflare (WAF, DDoS, CDN, access controls as applicable), and ensure resilience, observability, and incident readiness.
• Raise security and compliance maturity: threat modeling, secure SDLC, dependency management, access control, secrets management, vulnerability remediation SLAs, and audit readiness.
• Establish modern engineering operations: delivery metrics, technical debt management, CI/CD expectations, release management, and post-incident reviews.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior technology leadership role, owning outcomes across multiple teams.
• Distributed systems / event-driven architecture / Kafka / microservices + contract & version governance.
• Strong hands-on background with modern backend development, including Node.js in production environments; NestJS experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading frontend engineering in a modern framework.
• Solid understanding of modern build and tooling practices (e.g., pnpm, esbuild, Vite ecosystem), performance tuning, and developer experience.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver AI-native products and/or platforms, including practical experience with LLM-enabled workflows and safe adoption patterns.
• Working knowledge of Cloudflare services and edge/security concepts (WAF, CDN, DDoS protection, access controls) and ability to incorporate them into a secure architecture.
• Strong security mindset and experience improving security maturity (secure SDLC, risk management, incident response, and stakeholder communication).
• Excellent communication: ability to present clearly to executives, align cross-functional teams, and make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity.
• Ability to work EST business hours and collaborate effectively with distributed teams.
• Familiarity with Claude Code or comparable AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Benefits

• Fully remote work format.
• Opportunity to shape the backbone systems of a modern, data-driven digital company.
• A collaborative, innovation-first environment that values initiative and experimentation.
• Paid time off and sick leave.
• Reduced working hours on Fridays during the summer.
• Days-off on US national holidays + your birthday.