Rodgers Almer LLC · 17 hours ago
Director of Software Engineering
United States
Contract
Remote
Director/Executive
8+ years expRodgers Almer LLC is a Puerto Rico-based company developing a B2B SaaS financial intelligence platform for mid-market US hedge funds. They are looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead their technical team through the commercial launch and scale of their platform, focusing on architecture, code contribution, and team management.
Enterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyMachine LearningSoftware
Hiring Manager
Lukas Bradley
Responsibilities
Own technical architecture decisions and system design
Establish and enforce coding standards, review processes, and quality gates
Lead migration and adoption of new technologies as the platform evolves
Design scalable multi-tenant architecture supporting hedge fund security requirements
Lead and mentor a distributed engineering team across multiple time zones
Coordinate with Project Manager on sprint planning and delivery
Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance
Hire and onboard new engineers as the team grows
Contribute code to critical features and complex integrations
Debug production issues and lead incident response
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting systems
Work with Product Manager to translate requirements into technical specifications
Partner with QA on testing strategy and automation
Coordinate with DevOps on infrastructure and deployment
Communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years leading engineering teams
Experience scaling SaaS applications from early stage to production
Track record of shipping complex B2B software
Strong written communication skills (critical for distributed team)
Comfortable working across time zones with async communication
Experience with agile methodologies and sprint-based delivery
Java 25 with deep understanding of modern Java features (virtual threads, pattern matching, records)
Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7
Spring Security for multi-tenant authorization
Spring Data JPA with complex query optimization
PostgreSQL including JSONB, advanced indexing, and performance tuning
Gradle build system (multi-module projects)
Docker containerization
AWS services: EC2/ECS, RDS, S3, SQS
CI/CD pipeline design (Jenkins or similar)
Linux system administration
React with TypeScript (frontend collaboration)
Elasticsearch for search infrastructure
RESTful API design with OpenAPI/Swagger
Git workflows and code review practices
Preferred
Spring Modulith for modular monolith architecture
MapStruct for object mapping
Apache Tika, POI, PDFBox for document processing
AI/ML integration (LLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases like pgvector)
Financial services or fintech domain experience
SOC 2 compliance and security best practices
Proxmox or similar virtualization platforms
Benefits
Competitive compensation for the role
Equity participation in an early-stage company
Direct impact on product and technical direction
Clear growth path to CTO as the company scales
Small team environment where your contributions matter
Opportunity to build AI-powered financial technology from the ground up
Company
Rodgers Almer LLC
Experienced software development with reliability and automated quality assurance in mind.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase