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Super.com · 1 day ago

Director of Engineering, Core Experience

Super.com is a fast-paced, high-growth tech company focused on maximizing lives for both customers and team members. As the Engineering Director for Core Experience, you will build and lead an organization focused on enhancing the membership and user experience across all product verticals, driving engineering standards and best practices while collaborating closely with product leadership.

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Responsibilities

Own the technical strategy and delivery for the Core Experience organization, ensuring we’re building the right things and shipping them well
Lead and develop Engineering Managers and Engineering Leads, providing coaching, clearing technical and organizational blockers, and driving strong performance across teams
Partner with Product leadership on quarterly OKR planning, ensuring engineering brings meaningful initiatives to the table, prioritizes rigorously, and plans capacity responsibly
Ensure work is distributed effectively across the five teams and that collaboration with other verticals is clear, efficient, and well-defined
Guide architecture and system design decisions, setting direction and raising the technical bar
Strengthen cross-department collaboration by building tight working relationships with Fraud, Growth, and Data teams, ensuring aligned strategy and seamless execution
Partner with key technical vendors and external partners to ensure they support our roadmap and operational goals
Continuously improve our product development lifecycle for full-stack development in partnership with adjacent engineering groups
Shape the organizational structure, hiring plans, and talent strategy for the Core Experience engineering group
Maintain a healthy balance between velocity and long-term sustainability, ensuring teams ship fast without creating future disasters
Contribute to cross-vertical engineering initiatives, including best practices, guild leadership, and engineering standards
Jump into the code when it’s the fastest path to clarity or impact

Qualification

Full-stack developmentArchitectural leadershipMicroservicesLeadershipPythonNodeReactAWSPostgresRedisAgile/ScrumCoachingStrategic planningCollaboration

Required

At least 5 years of people leadership, including managing managers and senior ICs, with 2+ of those years at a Director level or equivalent
Proven success leading a multi-team engineering organization, including full-stack product teams
Experience stepping into an existing org and improving clarity, execution, and cohesion
Demonstrated strength in hiring, developing, and scaling high-performing teams
Strong track record of delivering major products and features, with a disciplined approach to balancing speed and long-term sustainability
Prior depth as a Senior Software Engineer or Technical Lead (3+ years minimum), with the architectural judgment to challenge designs, shape system direction, and guide senior ICs toward sound technical decisions
Strong understanding of modern web architectures, distributed systems, and microservice design patterns, with the ability to steer teams toward resilient, scalable solutions
Deep expertise in either backend or frontend systems design, with solid working knowledge of the other to make cross-stack architectural tradeoffs
Comfortable evaluating implementations in JavaScript and Python ecosystems
Experience designing or operating services at meaningful scale, including performance, reliability, and observability considerations
Proven ability to drive strategic engineering initiatives, such as OKR planning, org design, and multi-team alignment in a dynamic environment
Background in startup or scale-up environments where ambiguity, speed, and iteration are the norm

Preferred

Familiarity with membership ecosystems, customer lifecycle flows, conversion optimization, or experimentation frameworks that drive user engagement and retention
Experience working with shared platform capabilities such as common services, cross-vertical tooling, or foundational infrastructure that multiple product teams rely on
Experience building or scaling B2C products where user trust, clarity, and seamless experience are essential to growth and retention
Familiarity with our stack and ecosystem: Python, Node, React, Postgres, Redis, Docker, AWS, and related tools

Benefits

Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world and choose the hours that suit you best. We trust you to get great work done on your terms.
Time to Recharge: Enjoy unlimited PTO, company-wide recharge days, and annual team offsites.
Everyday Perks: Weekly UberEats credits and travel discounts on Super.com help you enjoy the little things.
Family-Friendly Benefits: We support growing families with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan.
Comprehensive Compensation: Competitive salary, equity options, and top-tier benefits starting on day one.
Investing in You: Access to wellness budgets, personal development funds, and team-level learning resources.

Company

Super.com

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Super.com is a saving app that empowers users to spend less, save more, and build credit.

H1B Sponsorship

Super.com has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$200.2M
Key Investors
Inovia Capital
2023-04-24Series C· $60M
2023-04-24Debt Financing· $25M
2021-03-04Series B· $79M

Leadership Team

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Hussein Fazal
Co-Founder & CEO
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Henry Shi
Co-Founder, Board Member & Hype Man
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