Director of Software Engineering (Serbia)
SerbiaRemote
Posted May 19, 2026
What You'll Own
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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: 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 (Apex, Lightning, integrations). - Own solution performance: latency, throughput, scalability, and cost—set SLOs and hold the team accountable to them. - Establish estimation, sprint, and release discipline; remove blockers; 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; build a culture of ownership and speed. ## Requirements
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10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading development teams of 8–20 engineers. - Deep, current hands-on experience with Node.js (Express/Nest, async patterns, performance tuning, microservices). - Working knowledge of the Salesforce platform—Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, REST/Platform Events, and Node.js↔Salesforce integration patterns. - Proven background: designed distributed systems, API contracts, data models, and performance-critical solutions in production. - Track record of —case studies where you measurably reduced cycle time or pulled in release dates without sacrificing quality. - Strong estimation and planning discipline in Agile/Scrum or Kanban environments. - Experience driving : profiling, caching, query optimization, horizontal scaling, and observability (APM, logs, traces). - Cloud-native delivery experience (AWS preferred) with CI/CD, IaC, and modern DevOps practices. - Excellent stakeholder communication—can negotiate scope vs. time vs. quality with executives. ## Success Metrics (First 6–12 Months)