Director of Engineering

Job Description

Job description

Parento is the first provider for paid parental leave, distributing the first and only paid parental leave insurance and support program with an AI-native leave administration software. Our holistic program enables companies to offer paid maternity and paternity leave to all employees.

We're an early-stage startup looking for a tenacious senior dev to oversee our product and development, who will be responsible for our Leave Management System, claims and leave portals, internal-facing tools, and in-house development function; this role is directly responsible for programming as well as managing the team. This is a hands-on role responsible for tech strategy and directly pushing code.

This position plays a key role in advancing our mission of expanding access to paid parental leave while pushing the bounds of what AI can do. This role will work closely with the senior leadership to establish and develop our internal and external-facing products for companies and employees, establishing them as a competitive advantage. You’ll be responsible for the development and implementation of our employer and employee portals, integrations with external services, and developing in-house tools and databases.

We're looking for someone with experience developing complex products, preferably in the HR, insurance, or related spaces. However, this is a startup, so no job is too big or too little for you, you do whatever it takes and get your hands dirty.  

The Director of Engineering will also serve as Parento’s designated Security Officer and is accountable for the design, operation, and continuous improvement of the company’s information security program. Responsibilities include:

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead technical voice of the internal/external customer, enabling systems that allow for providing timely, well documented and insightful input
• Directly responsible for API integrations
• Develop front end mobile and web architecture
• Design user interactions on mobile/web
• Ensure cross-platform optimization for mobile
• Develop back end applications
• Ensure application responsiveness
• Deliver quality solutions that meet or exceed consumer and technical needs
• Own and understand existing/new customers’ technical needs and translating how our platform offerings could match those needs
• Understand partners' APIs and assist sales with integrating with partners
• Better operationalize delivery of services and identify opportunities to sustainably scale the team, knowing that systems will require continuous iteration.
• Own Parento’s information security policies, review them at least annually, and present them to the CEO for approval.
• Run the annual risk assessment, maintain the risk register, and track remediation to completion.
• Serve as control owner for Parento’s SOC 2 program and coordinate audit readiness, evidence collection, and auditor requests.
• Ensure access to production systems, customer data, and internal tools follows least privilege and is approved before it’s granted.
• Maintain and ensure accurate user access and conduct access reviews
• Enforce MFA, password standards, and secure credential management across company systems.
• Maintain a documented software development lifecycle that includes peer code review, testing, and approval before production deployment.
• Ensure production changes are tracked, reviewed, and traceable to an approved ticket or request.
• Separate development, staging, and production environments, and protect production data from use in non-production environments.
• Oversee logging, monitoring, and alerting for production infrastructure and security events.
• Manage vulnerability scanning and patching, and remediate findings within defined timelines based on severity.
• Oversee backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans, and test them at least annually.
• Maintain the incident response plan and lead the response to security incidents, including investigation, containment, customer notification, and post-incident review.

Desired Skills

• 7+ years development experience
• Experienced with API integrations and reviewing API documentation
• Experience with React, preferably
• Experience with PHP/Laravel, required
• Experience with AWS 
• Experience with identity providers such Auth0 and Okta
• Have experience with relational databases, preferably SQL Server
• Have excellent communication, business partnering, and customer service skills
• Be skilled working with cross-functional project and product teams

• Self-starter, excited to roll up sleeves and dive in wherever is needed
• Able to identify process gaps, create solutions and continually iterate on processes as the team grows and needs change
• Able to multi-task across multiple projects, teams, and deadlines
• Be accountable and deliver
• Data-driven

Benefits of Working at Parento

• Equity package
• High-quality health insurance
• Paid parental & family leave
• Work for a company focused on changing society for the better
• No bureaucratic holdups here