Remote Director of Software Engineering

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading development teams of 8–20 engineers.
• Deep, current hands-on experience with Node.js, including Express or Nest, async patterns, performance tuning, and microservices.
• Working knowledge of the Salesforce platform, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, REST/Platform Events, and Node.js to Salesforce integration patterns.
• Proven technical architect background with experience designing distributed systems, API contracts, data models, and performance-critical production solutions.
• Track record of schedule compression with measurable reductions in cycle time or release dates without sacrificing quality.
• Strong estimation and planning discipline in Agile/Scrum or Kanban environments.
• Experience driving solution performance, including profiling, caching, query optimization, horizontal scaling, and observability tools such as APM, logs, and traces.
• Cloud-native delivery experience, preferably with AWS, CI/CD, IaC, and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills with the ability to negotiate scope, time, and quality trade-offs with executives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of 10 full-stack developers across Node.js services and Salesforce customizations.
• Drive measurable improvements in developer velocity using DORA metrics such as lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR.
• Compress delivery schedules by breaking epics into small, independently shippable slices and challenging inflated estimates with data.
• Architect end-to-end solutions spanning Node.js microservices, APIs, event-driven patterns, and Salesforce technologies.
• Own solution performance across latency, throughput, scalability, and cost, and set SLOs for the team.
• Establish estimation, sprint, and release discipline; remove blockers; and enforce accountability without burning the team out.
• Partner with Product, QA, and Infrastructure to align roadmap, capacity, and dependencies.
• Recruit, onboard, and performance-manage engineers while building a culture of ownership and speed.
• Reduce average lead time for changes and increase deployment frequency to meet high or elite DORA benchmarks.
• Ship the current roadmap on a compressed timeline agreed with leadership.
• Improve estimate accuracy to within an agreed tolerance.
• Meet or exceed performance SLOs for the Node.js and Salesforce solution stack.
• Retain and level up the existing team while filling any skill gaps.

Technologies:

• Apex
• API
• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Kanban
• Lightning Web Components
• REST
• Salesforce
• Web
• microservices
• NodeJS

More:

We are Flosum, and we are building world-class software for the modern enterprise. We combine cloud-native expertise, quality, speed, and innovation to create high-performance products that delight our customers and scale with their businesses. We are looking for a hands-on Director of Software Development to lead a team of 10 engineers and own delivery, architecture, and performance for our Node.js and Salesforce-integrated products. At Flosum, technologists lead, ideas win on merit, and great software is built by great teams. You will have the autonomy, talent, and mandate to build something exceptional.

last updated 40 week of 2026