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Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Director, Development Engineering to own the technical execution of our web and mobile platforms across the Exclusive Collective. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can set architecture and then actually land it — across multiple teams, multiple brands, and multiple codebases — without slowing anyone down.
You will manage engineering leads (a mix of on-site and remote across the Collective), partner directly with Product and Design, and report to the SVP, Engineering. You will be accountable for both the roadmap and the runway: what gets built, how fast it gets built, and whether it holds up at scale.
If you like ambiguity, hate meetings that don’t end in a decision, and believe the best architecture document is a working deployment — this is your role.
Key Responsibilities
Lead & Scale Teams
•   Manage and develop a group of engineering leads and their teams across the Exclusive Collective, including remote direct reports.
•   Recruit, hire, and retain senior engineering talent; raise the bar on every req.
•   Set clear goals, ruthless priorities, and short feedback loops. Coach leads to make decisions without escalating.
•   Build a #GetThingsDone culture: high trust, high velocity, low ceremony.
Own the Architecture
•   Define the technical architecture for our web, mobile, and API platforms — and drive consistent adoption of it across teams that don’t all report to you.
•   Translate architectural direction into practical, team-level implementation plans with real milestones.
•   Establish standards for TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and React/Next.js development that engineers actually want to follow.
•   Own the search strategy across the platform (Elasticsearch, Algolia) — relevance, indexing, performance, and cost.
•   Make build-vs-buy calls and defend them with data.
Ship
•   Drive delivery of scalable, high-performance web and mobile experiences on aggressive timelines.
•   Own CI/CD, code quality, testing strategy, observability, and production readiness across teams.
•   Ensure adherence to security, performance, accessibility, and data-privacy standards.
•   Partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to convert strategy into scoped, sequenced, shippable work.
Operate
•   Own cloud architecture and cost management across AWS (primary) and Azure workloads.
•   Manage vendor and partner relationships, third-party integrations, and platform SLAs.
•   Report status, risk, and tradeoffs clearly and early to the SVP, Engineering and executive stakeholders.
Required Skills & Experience
•   12+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading engineering teams — including managing managers or leads.
•   Proven track record leading consumer-facing web and mobile product engineering at scale.
•   Expert-level TypeScript. This is non-negotiable — you should be able to review and improve your team’s type architecture.
•   Deep production experience with Node.js and GraphQL (schema design, federation or stitching, performance, caching).
•   2+ years hands-on with React and Next.js in production.
•   Production experience with search — Elasticsearch, Algolia, or equivalent — including relevance tuning and indexing pipelines.
•   AWS required — strong working knowledge of core services, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code.
•   Azure experience — able to operate and integrate workloads across both clouds.
•   Demonstrated ability to take an architectural vision and successfully apply it across multiple independent teams.
•   Strong management fundamentals: hiring, performance, career development, and org design.
•   Excellent written and verbal communication; able to move between an executive readout and a code review in the same hour.
•   Able to work from our Denver office 4 days per week.
Preferred Qualifications
•   Experience in travel, hospitality, or luxury consumer technology — reservations, availability, inventory, or booking systems.
•   Experience at a high-growth startup or inside a startup-model team within a larger organization.
•   Familiarity with Salesforce-based systems and enterprise API integration.
•   Experience with AI-assisted development tooling and modern developer productivity practices.
•   Mobile delivery experience (React Native or native iOS/Android).
•   Background in performance tuning, edge caching, and Core Web Vitals optimization.
How We Work
•   #GetThingsDone. Bias to action. Decisions in days, not quarters.
•   Small teams, big ownership. You’ll have real scope and real accountability.
•   Startup pace, luxury standard. We ship fast, but our Members expect flawless.
•   Direct communication. Say the hard thing early. Bring the fix with the problem.
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