Director, Software Engineering & Integration

**Who we are** More efficient. More accurate. More accessible. Exol is bringing industry-leading automation to businesses of all sizes through an innovative warehouse-as-a-service model. **What we need** Exol is seeking a **Director – Software Engineering & Integration** to lead the development and evolution of its digital platform. This role provides technical and organizational leadership across platform engineering, service architecture, integration frameworks, and application development. The Director is accountable for architecture integrity, engineering standards, and delivery execution across a globally distributed team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining platform architecture expertise with strong delivery governance. **What we do** Exol\* is pioneering warehousing-as-a-service, offering outsourced warehousing operations, and specializing in automated warehousing solutions. Our focus is on the efficient movement of goods in cases and pallets across all sectors, such as wholesale, retail, and general merchandising. *\*Exol is an independently managed joint venture between Symbotic and Softbank.* **What you’ll do** **Platform & Application Engineering Leadership** - Lead the development of scalable digital applications, including: - Backend microservices and APIs - Event-driven service components - User-facing web applications and operational interfaces - Ensure cohesive design between service layers and application layers - Promote clean API contracts and separation of concerns between systems - Drive consistent engineering standards across application and service codebases **Architecture & Event-Driven Systems** - Guide architecture for: - Microservices and API-first platforms - Event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows - Multi-tenant, scalable service environments - Provide technical leadership for messaging and middleware solutions, including: - Google Pub/Sub (preferred) - Kafka and related ecosystems - JMS-based messaging platforms - Define standards for event contracts, schema versioning, retry logic, and failure handling **Integration Engineering** - Own engineering direction for: - Internal service integrations - External partner APIs - EDI and system-to-system exchanges - Establish reusable integration frameworks and shared service components - Ensure secure, monitored, and version-controlled integration endpoints **Application & Interface Development** - Oversee development of modern web applications and platform interfaces - Ensure applications are: - Role-based and multi-tenant aware - Performance-optimized and scalable - Consistent in user interaction patterns - Encourage engineering best practices around frontend architecture, testing, and maintainability **Performance, Quality & Observability** - Drive performance engineering practices across service and application layers - Promote profiling, diagnostics, and runtime monitoring standards - Partner with Cloud and DevOps teams to ensure observability is embedded into the software lifecycle **Delivery & Engineering Governance** - Translate product roadmaps into structured engineering plans - Ensure sprint discipline, backlog alignment, and predictable release cycles - Conduct architecture and production-readiness reviews - Maintain strong coordination between US leadership and GCC execution teams - Manage contractor and partner engineering performance **What you’ll need** - Minimum 12 years in software engineering, with 6+ years in leadership roles - Experience scaling enterprise-grade digital platforms - Strong expertise in: - Microservices and API-first design - Event-driven architectures - Messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent) - Modern Java-based backend frameworks (Spring preferred) - Modern web application development frameworks - Experience leading distributed engineering organizations (US + offshore/GCC) - Strong balance of architectural depth and delivery accountability - Strong executive presence with the abi…