Director of Engineering

• Location 10 Woodbridge Center Drive,Suite 510,Woodbridge Township, NJ, 07095,United States
• Base Pay $ - $ / Year
• Job Category Technology

At Fresh Direct
, we are reinventing the grocery experience.

Since day one, our mission has been simple: bring the best, freshest food directly from the farm to people’s homes — faster, fresher, and smarter than anyone else.

We’re not just a food company. We’re a technology-powered, customer-obsessed team building one of the most innovative end-to-end food supply chains in the industry. From proprietary routing systems to our state-of-the-art fulfillment center, every part of our business is designed to deliver unmatched quality, convenience, and care.

We partner directly with farmers, fishermen, and artisans to source the highest quality ingredients — then use smart data, automation, and logistics to deliver them at peak freshness.

It’s grocery shopping reimagined — and we’re just getting started.

If you’re passionate about innovation, care deeply about what people eat, and want to help build the future of food, we’d love to meet you.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of full stack, React Native, and senior backend engineers across multiple positions and geographies.
• Own delivery, quality, and reliability across all four last-mile applications, balancing roadmap commitments with technical health.
• Set technical direction, standards, and best practices for code quality, testing, security, and operational excellence.
• Conduct hiring, performance management, career development, and capacity planning for the engineering organization.

• Drive system architecture decisions across Java/J2EE services, microservices, React and React Native front ends, and GCP-based infrastructure.
• Guide the design and development of scalable RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Oversee data architecture and performance across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Firebase, including caching and query optimization.
• Champion CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and Dev Ops maturity across teams.
• Ensure compliance with modern security standards and best practices (including PCI where applicable).

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 4+ years leading and managing engineering teams (including managers and/or senior engineers).
• Proven track record delivering and operating large-scale, high-transaction web and mobile applications in production.
• Deep expertise in core Java/J2EE and related frameworks (Spring, JPA, JMS).
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful services and microservices architectures.
• Experience overseeing mobile application delivery, ideally React Native across iOS and Android.
• Hands-on background with relational and No
  
  SQL data stores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase) and performance/query optimization.
• Deep understanding of cloud services, with GCP strongly preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, build automation, and caching frameworks.
• Practical Linux knowledge and shell scripting.
• Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in fast-changing requirements.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and cross-team collaboration skills, with experience leading globally distributed teams.
• Experience in e-commerce, logistics, or high-transaction-processing environments.
• Knowledge of AlloyDB, SQL/PLSQL, and database design.
• Familiarity with additional JS frameworks and build tools, and CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Sass/LESS).
• Exposure to routing, geospatial, or timeslot/scheduling systems.
• Familiarity with system administration concepts (load balancers such as F5, firewalls, Akamai/CDN).
• Knowledge of PCI compliance and broader security standards.
• Exposure to data science and machine learning applied to logistics or personalization.

• Experience in e-commerce, logistics, or high-transaction-processing environments.
• Knowledge of AlloyDB, SQL/PLSQL, and database design.
• Familiarity with additional JS frameworks and build tools, and CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Sass/LESS).
• Exposure to routing, geospatial, or timeslot/scheduling systems.
• Familiarity with system administration concepts (load…