Director, Software Engineering – Residential

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees. Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956.

Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures. Learn about our company culture directly from our team.

Define and execute a modernization roadmap for the residential application portfolio, including re-platforming and incremental migration of legacy applications. Own application architecture decisions, lead design reviews, and set standards for cloud-native application development. Manage technical debt deliberately, balancing modernization against ongoing customer commitments. Use product telemetry and usage data to guide modernization priorities. Ensure applications meet customer expectations for usability and accessibility.

Standardize the software development life cycle across the managed divisions, consolidating tooling and practices. Drive adoption of modern delivery practices: CI/CD, automated testing, and frequent, small releases. Lead the shift from manual QA toward automated quality engineering, including reskilling QA staff. Measure delivery performance using DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore) and act on the results.

Build secure development practices into the life cycle, including vulnerability management. Own application-level reliability and incident response, using observability tooling provided by Platform Engineering. Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools where they improve speed or quality.

Lead, coach, and develop a geographically distributed engineering organization spanning multiple U.S. time zones, including both direct and indirect, holding them accountable for performance. Unite different teams with different histories, stacks, and norms into one collaborative engineering culture. Lead the change management that modernization requires, bringing teams along rather than imposing change. Hire, develop, and retain engineering talent; address underperformance directly.

Set clear goals, performance measures, and career development plans across the organization. Build a succession bench by developing future engineering leaders. Establish operating rhythms, communication standards, and team norms that promote collaboration, accountability, and inclusion in a remote-first environment.

Set the technical strategy for residential software in alignment with Digital Solutions objectives. Develop and manage the engineering budget for the residential software organization. Lead quarterly and annual planning, keeping the Vice President and senior leadership informed on progress, risks, and impediments. Manage vendor and third-party relationships as needed supporting the residential applications.

Partner with Product Management on roadmap, prioritization, and trade-off decisions. Work with the Director, Platform Engineering under clearly defined ownership boundaries and a shared roadmap. Explain technical concepts, trade-offs, and progress clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems,…