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Director of Engineering; Hands-On Architect

Job in London, Ontario, K5Z, Canada
Listing for: Space Dinosaurs
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-05
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Architect
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Director of Engineering (Hands-On Architect)

Space Dinosaurs builds fast, high-converting e-commerce experiences for the world's top brands, with a focus on conversion rate and revenue optimization. We're a specialist e-commerce and creative strategy firm that uses AI-augmented engineering and our CDN engineering heritage to deliver high-performance, scalable digital retail experiences that deliver exceptional revenue performance and growth. Together, we're a global team of talented designers, engineers, strategists, and operators who like solving hard problems, shipping work we're proud of, and tying our output to measurable results.

Built on decades of retail technology expertise, we're redefining how retail grows. We are recognized by many of the world's leading retail and consumer brands for designing and building the fastest, most resilient, future-ready websites and applications that consistently deliver measurable outcomes in revenue.

Director of Engineering (Hands‑On Architect)

Remote - Canada or LATAM

Who We Are

Space Dinosaurs builds fast, high-converting ecommerce experiences for the world's top brands, with a focus on conversion rate and revenue optimization. We're a specialist e-commerce and creative strategy firm that uses AI-augmented engineering and our CDN engineering heritage to deliver high-performance, scalable digital retail experiences that deliver exceptional revenue performance and growth. Together, we're a global team of talented designers, engineers, strategists, and operators who like solving hard problems, shipping work we're proud of, and tying our output to measurable results.

Built on decades of retail technology expertise, we're redefining how retail grows. We are recognized by many of the world's leading retail and consumer brands for designing and building the fastest, most resilient, future-ready websites and applications that consistently deliver measurable outcomes in revenue.

Role Overview

We build headless commerce platforms for enterprise retail brands on Next.js, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and Shopify Plus — and we need a senior engineering leader who owns people, architecture, and delivery for their teams while shaping engineering standards across the organization. You operate at director level: owning outcomes across multiple squads and client engagements, representing Engineering in senior client conversations, and shaping standards that other teams build against, while remaining hands‑on enough to lead architecture on key initiatives.

Your direct reports are engineering managers, leads, and architects — you build the leadership layer, define architecture patterns, and drive delivery outcomes across multiple squads in a distributed, async-first environment. Hands‑on contribution is roughly 20–30% of your time, enough to stay credible and unblock architectural problems, but your impact comes from the leaders you develop and the systems you put around them.

As a Director, you will have the opportunity to expand your scope across additional teams, domains, and strategic accounts as the organization grows.

Essential Functions
  • Own delivery outcomes and velocity across your delivery teams — diagnose systemic bottlenecks, not just immediate blockers
  • Hire, develop, and performance-manage engineering managers, leads, and architects — build the leadership layer that builds the team
  • Define front-end architecture patterns, rendering strategies, and performance standards that multiple delivery teams build against
  • Drive story refinement and documentation standards that enable your leads, architects, and their teams to execute reliably
  • Establish the standards, documentation habits, and workflow patterns that make AI agents effective across your squads — shaping how teams decompose work for reliable agent…
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