Director of Engineering
Kody is an agentic commerce platform with embedded payments, helping businesses manage payment acceptance, cash flow, customer engagement, and operations.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
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About Kody
Kody provides an all-in-one commerce and payments platform for businesses with physical locations, particularly hospitality and other brick-and-mortar businesses. Its services include payment acceptance, financial and banking services through partners, cash-flow access via KodyCard, management tools, reporting and analytics, customer tracking, loyalty features, and conversational AI capabilities. Kody supports businesses through web- and app-based technology and offers multiple pricing plans for merchants.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead the engineering organization and set its technical vision and direction with executive and product leadership. Guide architecture, oversee delivery across backend, frontend, and infrastructure, and work with Product, Design, and Operations on roadmap priorities. Promote feedback, mentorship, modern development practices, security, privacy, compliance, documentation, and scalable onboarding processes.
Requirements
- 10–15 years of experience in engineering leadership roles, ideally in fintech, SaaS, or tech-enabled services.
- Experience leading engineering teams at high-growth technology companies or scale-ups.
- Technical expertise in modern architectures and cloud-based platforms.
- Experience managing and growing distributed engineering teams.
- Leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with agile development, DevOps culture, and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Business acumen and ability to align engineering strategy with company objectives.
Responsibilities
- Set and execute the engineering vision and technical direction.
- Deliver an engineering strategy for scalable and secure platform growth.
- Drive timely, high-quality engineering delivery across teams.
- Promote feedback, mentorship, and career development.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Operations on priorities and roadmap planning.
- Champion CI/CD, testing, observability, and agile methodologies.
- Oversee architectural planning across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
- Advocate for engineering priorities while balancing business goals and technical feasibility.
- Maintain onboarding processes, documentation, and workflows.
- Embed data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance into engineering culture.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package.
- Dynamic and innovative team in a rapidly growing company.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Frequent team events and socials.
- Collaborative, inclusive environment where contributions are recognized and valued.
