Engineering Director
Job Summary
Job Description
Sonar is seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead its Engineering Team and drive product development. This role involves overseeing technical direction, architecture, and delivery, leading software engineers, and collaborating with product management. Responsibilities include leading engineering managers and squads, providing technical leadership, defining product roadmaps, ensuring high-quality software, and fostering a culture of innovation. The director will also participate in an on-call rotation for critical system issue support.
Must have:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years in a leadership role
- Strong experience leading software development teams
- Strong technical background in software development
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Experience with agile development methodologies
Good to have:
- Experience with Java, JavaScript, or other programming languages
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery
- Experience with automated testing
Perks:
- Dynamic work culture valuing respect and kindness
- Growth mindset with continuous education support
- Flexible work policy (3 days in-office, 2 days work-from-home for near-office locations; fully remote options in Dubai, India, Japan, Australia)
- Robust time-off allocations (27 PTO days in Geneva region, plus seniority-based days)
- Pension contribution (60% of total cost)
- Savings contribution (13.5% to 15.5% of base salary)
- Risk contribution (2%)
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus
- Sustainable mobility options (carpooling, 60% transportation subscription refund)
- Global workforce with diverse nationalities
- Annual kick-off event
8 skills required
Job Details
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead our Engineering Team and drive the development of our products. As the Engineering Director, you will be responsible for the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of our solutions. You will lead a team of talented software engineers and work closely with product management to ensure the success of our products.
As part of the role, you will participate in an on-call rotation to provide timely support and address any critical system issues that may arise outside of regular working hours.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Lead a group of engineering managers and their squads to deliver high-quality software products.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering teams, ensuring that the teams are aligned with the company's technical vision and strategy.
- Define and drive the technical direction, architecture, and roadmap of our products.
- Collaborate with product management to ensure that our products meet customer needs and business objectives.
- Work closely with quality assurance to ensure that our products meet high standards of quality and reliability.
- Ensure that the engineering team is using best practices in software development, including agile development methodologies, continuous integration and delivery, and automated testing.
- Hire and develop top engineering talent, and engineering managers and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
- Help to grow individual engineering managers to lead their teams.
The Experience You Will Need:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Strong experience in leading software development teams, with a track record of delivering high-quality software products.
- Strong technical background in software development, with experience in Java, JavaScript, or other programming languages.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team of engineers.
- Experience with agile development methodologies, continuous integration and delivery, and automated testing.
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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