Director of Engineering

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $230k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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WPS - Educational and Psychological Assessments

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1948

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

Healthcare • Consulting • Education

WPS is a leading independent publisher of educational and psychological assessments and related intervention resources. With over 70 years of experience, WPS has built a strong reputation in the areas of autism, speech and language, psychology, and occupational therapy. The company develops tests that enhance clinical evaluation, inform diagnoses, and guide therapy, fostering meaningful connections between authors and practitioners in the field.

📋 Description

• Build the engineering strategy and multi-year capability roadmap aligned with technology strategy and company priorities • Design, hire, and develop the engineering organization, including managers, QA, and leadership layers • Establish clear ownership, decision rights, and career paths • Lead the transition from external development partners to internal and nearshore teams • Ensure continuity of delivery, knowledge transfer, and shared codebase ownership • Manage the engineering budget, headcount plan, and partner relationships • Select and negotiate with nearshore partners • Build an AI software factory with shared workflows, tools, and agent instructions • Establish automated feedback loops based on shipped features, bug fixes, code reviews, and customer outcomes • Define engineering metrics for delivery speed, quality, and reliability • Set standards for AI tool use, validation, and human oversight • Own the software development lifecycle from intake through production support • Partner with Product Management on roadmap and priorities • Set standards for CI/CD, testing, observability, privacy, accessibility, and secure development • Partner with Infrastructure and Security & Compliance • Participate in architecture decisions, tool and vendor evaluation, code review, release readiness, and incident response • Report engineering delivery, risk, and performance to the Head of Technology and company leadership • Build and run the organization behind WPS software, including WPS Hub, a digital assessment platform

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience • 5+ years leading engineering teams • 2+ years managing managers or team leads • Earlier career experience as a hands-on senior software engineer, full stack or back-end preferred • Strong foundations in system design and data architecture • Track record of designing and building an engineering organization • Experience leading a transition from vendor-delivered to in-house or nearshore delivery • Experience building or managing distributed or nearshore teams, including partner selection and contract terms • Experience owning an engineering budget, including external partner spend • Demonstrated experience building shared AI workflows and tooling adopted by an engineering team, with measurable results • Sound judgment with AI tools and ability to evaluate output and ship responsibly in a high-trust domain • Experience shipping production software in a high-accuracy, high-trust, or regulated environment • Experience modernizing an existing platform while continuing to ship • Experience with cloud platforms, AWS preferred • Experience with modern CI/CD and automated testing • People leadership track record, including performance management and career development • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred) • 2+ years in a high-rigor engineering environment (preferred) • Experience in healthcare, education, assessment, publishing, or other expert-content domains (preferred) • Must be able to work in the USA; WPS is unable to provide visa sponsorship • New employees must complete Form I-9 work authorization verification through E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Exempt position • Equal employment opportunity employer • U.S. Military Veterans encouraged to apply • WPS will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment

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