Your Opportunity

The Director of Product Engineering is responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of Scion’s internal and resident-facing software tools. This role sits at the intersection of product management, engineering execution, and business strategy—ensuring Scion’s technology platforms drive operational efficiency, enhance resident experience, and scale with portfolio growth.
This leader will build and manage high-performing engineering teams, partner closely with product and operations stakeholders, and establish a modern, scalable technology ecosystem aligned with Scion’s long-term digital strategy.

Your Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Strategy

• Define and execute the engineering vision for Scion’s software platforms, aligned with business objectives.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, QA, and technical leads.
• Establish best practices for architecture, coding standards, testing, and deployment.
• Drive adoption of modern development frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and scalable systems.

Product & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Product, Analytics, Revenue Management, and Operations teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Collaborate on product roadmaps, ensuring engineering feasibility, scalability, and performance.
• Act as a key stakeholder in prioritization, balancing speed, quality, and business impact. 

Platform Development & Ownership

• Oversee development of internal tools (leasing, operations, reporting, integrations) and resident-facing applications. 
• Ensure systems integrate seamlessly with third-party platforms (e.g., property management systems, CRMs, payment systems).
• Drive data platform improvements to support analytics, reporting, and decision-making. 

Delivery & Execution

• Implement agile development processes to improve speed, predictability, and transparency.
• Own delivery timelines, resource planning, and execution quality.
• Monitor KPIs such as system performance, uptime, deployment frequency, and defect rates. 

Technology & Architecture

• Lead architectural decisions to ensure systems are scalable, secure, and maintainable. 
• Champion cloud-native solutions (e.g., AWS/Azure), APIs, and microservices where appropriate. 
• Ensure adherence to cybersecurity, data privacy, and compliance standards. 

Operational Excellence

• Improve engineering efficiency through tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. 
• Manage vendor relationships and external development partners as needed. 
• Establish incident response processes and ensure high system reliability. 

What We Require

Experience
•    8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3–5+ years in a leadership role. 
•    Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering SaaS or enterprise software products. 
•    Experience building and scaling internal tools or operational platforms preferred. 
•    Background in e-commerce, property management/revenue management, or marketplace platforms is a plus. 
Technical Expertise
•    Strong understanding of modern web architectures, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. 
•    Experience with languages/frameworks such as JavaScript (React, Node), Ruby on Rails, Python, or similar. 
•    Familiarity with data systems, integrations, and analytics platforms. 
•    Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. 
Leadership & Business Skills
•    Demonstrated ability to align engineering efforts with business outcomes. 
•    Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
•    Experience working in cross-functional, product-driven environments. 
•    Ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, growth-oriented organization. 
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Key Competencies
•    Strategic thinking with hands-on execution capability 
•    Strong ownership and accountability 
•    Collaborative leadership style 
•    Data-driven decision-making 
•    Continuous improvement mindset

Operational Details

• Job location is based at Scion’s Chicago corporate headquarters.
• Working hours consist of standard daytime business hours.

Your Benefits 

• FLSA Status Exempt
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Paid Time Off
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401k Matching
• Paid Maternal Leave
• Parental Leave
• Learning reimbursement opportunities

The Scion Group LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, physical or mental disability (as long as the employee/applicant is otherwise qualified for the job with or without a reasonable accommodation), genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, marital status, uniformed service, veteran status, pregnancy or other legally protected status or category under federal or state law. The Scion Group LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in all locations in which the Company has properties. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation, training and other terms and conditions of employment. The Scion Group LLC is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunities.

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About this position:

We’re looking for a deeply technical, strategically minded Domain Architect to lead the next evolution of our platform architecture. In this role, you’ll rapidly assess our existing systems, define convergence opportunities between key domains, and shape the integration strategy that drives scalability, velocity, and long-term technical excellence. You’ll bridge product, engineering, and data to define clear domain boundaries, establish technical standards, and guide the modernization of our architecture—ensuring we balance innovation with business impact.

This role is ideal for an experienced architect who thrives in fast-moving environments, understands the trade-offs between pragmatism and purity, and can translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable decisions across teams.

What you'll be doing:

Strategy

• Evaluate and define the target-state domain architecture across multiple products, identifying convergence opportunities and technical debt reduction paths.
• Design and lead a scalable integration strategy between heterogeneous systems (e.g., Rails <-> Node/React Native via APIs, Kafka, or event streams).
• Define domain boundaries and service ownership models that enable sustainable growth and platform flexibility.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align architectural priorities with product roadmaps and business outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional discussions on modernization strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability.

Technical/ Execution

• Decompose monolithic applications (Rails, Django, Laravel) into domain-based services or bounded contexts, using domain-driven design principles.
• Define integration and data synchronization patterns between distributed systems, ensuring schema evolution and API versioning best practices.
• Architect core platform services—authentication, identity, content, and analytics—shared across web and mobile products.
• Apply deep hands-on knowledge of AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Postgres, EventBridge/SNS/SQS) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Introduce observability, monitoring, and CI/CD standards (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) that support secure, high-quality releases.
• Provide technical mentorship and architectural reviews to ensure strong engineering standards and knowledge transfer across teams.

Team / Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to guide architecture decisions that optimize both user experience and technical sustainability.
• Contribute to architecture guilds and domain working groups, defining shared frameworks and principles for system evolution.
• Communicate architectural trade-offs clearly—speed vs scalability, build vs buy, monolith vs microservice—to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Author and socialize Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), domain maps, and shared service contracts to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to senior engineers, promoting best practices in distributed system design and software craftsmanship.

Leadership

• Lead by influence across engineering teams, setting a high bar for architectural rigor, documentation, and technical collaboration.
• Champion scalable, pragmatic engineering principles that accelerate business velocity while building for the future.
• Drive the adoption of a modern technical culture—balancing innovation, quality, and accountability.

Research/Best Practices

• Stay current on evolving architectural paradigms (domain-driven design, event-driven systems, microservices, and data mesh patterns).
• Introduce architectural innovations and tools that improve developer efficiency, code quality, and system observability.
• Conduct architecture reviews and share learnings company-wide to foster continuous improvement and technical excellence.

What success looks like:

• Clear domain boundaries and service ownership models are defined and adopted across engineering teams.
• Integration patterns between systems are reliable, documented, and scalable, supporting faster feature delivery.
• Architecture decisions are data-informed, balancing speed, cost, and technical debt effectively.
• The engineering organization demonstrates improved velocity and reduced friction between teams.
• Foundational technical debt reduction and modernization initiatives are underway, with measurable impact on reliability and maintainability.
• You’re seen as a collaborative, trusted technical leader who bridges architecture and product strategy seamlessly.

What you bring:

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or principal architecture role.
• Proven expertise designing and evolving architectures in high-scale, multi-product environments (Rails, Node.js, React Native preferred).
• Deep understanding of domain-driven design (DDD), service decomposition, and event-driven patterns.
• Strong AWS architecture experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, EventBridge, SQS/SNS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Demonstrated ability to modernize legacy systems incrementally, driving results without full rebuilds.
• Solid understanding of data synchronization, API design, schema evolution, and distributed systems reliability.
• Experience defining and implementing CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, multi-env).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas for diverse audiences.
• Passion for mentorship, system design, and building architectures that enable product and team growth.

How you work: 

Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear.

Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.

Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement.

Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high.

Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth.

Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.

Our approach to compensation:

We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.

Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.

To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted. 

Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.

Salary Range: 

$200,000 - 230,000 OTE

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