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This role leads a geographically distributed U.S. and India engineering organization responsible for designing, delivering, operating, and continuously improving a multi-tenant SaaS platform that supports online auction businesses.\nThe leader will establish the technical vision and engineering operating model required to scale Auction.IO to support approximately 1,000 clients while improving delivery predictability, client onboarding efficiency, platform availability, performance, security, maintainability, and cost effectiveness. The role balances product roadmap delivery, client commitments, technical debt, operational support, and long-term platform modernization.\nThe ideal candidate is a pragmatic, hands-on technology leader who can move effectively between architectural discussions with engineers, roadmap and investment decisions with business leaders, and implementation or solution discussions with clients. Success will be measured through team development and retention, roadmap delivery, release quality, service availability, incident recovery, security remediation, technical-debt reduction, and progress toward scalable client growth.\n Recruit, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing, geographically distributed engineering team, developing strong technical leaders and reducing reliance on individual subject-matter experts.\nEstablish clear roles, goals, performance expectations, career development plans, succession plans, and an engineering culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, inclusion, continuous improvement, and measurable outcomes.\nManage engineering capacity across product development, client implementations, production support, platform modernization, security, and technical-debt reduction.\nPartner with product management, sales leadership, and offshore delivery manager to translate business strategy and the product roadmap into an achievable engineering roadmap, staffing plan, release plan, and delivery commitments.\nEstablish reliable estimation, prioritization, development, testing, release, and change-management practices; identify delivery risks early and communicate tradeoffs, dependencies, and corrective actions clearly.\nDefine and monitor engineering measures such as delivery predictability, deployment frequency, lead time, escaped defects, system availability, incident recovery time, security remediation time, and technical-debt reduction.\nOwn the target architecture and multi-year technical roadmap for Auction.IO, including multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, configuration, extensibility, integrations, data management, performance, resilience, and operational scalability.\nEstablish architecture principles, design-review practices, technical documentation standards, technology-selection criteria, and build-versus-buy decision processes.\nEnsure the platform supports efficient client onboarding and configuration without unnecessary client-specific customization, while preserving backward compatibility, upgradeability, and sustainable operation across a growing client base.\nModernize the software development lifecycle through appropriate use of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure coding practices, and AI-assisted development tools.\nSet and enforce standards for code quality, unit and regression test coverage, peer review, dependency management, vulnerability remediation, performance engineering, and maintainability.\nEstablish service-level objectives, operational-readiness criteria, monitoring, alerting, incident-response, backup, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity practices appropriate for a multi-tenant SaaS marketplace.\nLead the technical response to major production incidents and ensure timely root-cause analysis, corrective actions, ownership, communication, and follow-through to prevent recurrence.\nPartner with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure the platform meets applicable enterprise, contractual, privacy, and compliance requirements.\nPartner with Client Services and implementation teams to define technically viable solutions, estimates, integration approaches, data migrations, and implementation plans.\nParticipate in strategic client discussions, solution reviews, sales or renewal support, and escalations where senior technical leadership is required; explain constraints, alternatives, risks, and tradeoffs in business terms.\nEstablish governance for client-specific requests to protect the product roadmap, reduce platform fragmentation, and promote reusable product capabilities.\nManage strategic engineering vendors and partners, including performance, delivery quality, contractual commitments, dependencies, and risk.\nSupervisory Responsibilities:\nDirectly and indirectly supervises a geographically distributed engineering organization that may include technical leads, software engineers, quality-assurance engineers, contractors, and strategic delivery partners.\nResponsible for hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, coaching, career development, succession planning, workforce planning, and, when necessary, corrective action for the software development organization.\n Education/ Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree preferred.\n10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and technical leaders.\nDemonstrated accountability for a production SaaS platform and a geographically distributed engineering organization.\nProven success scaling multi-tenant, transaction-intensive software, preferably in e-commerce, marketplaces, payments, or related digital platforms.\nSkills:\nDemonstrated ability to lead, develop, and retain geographically distributed engineering teams, including U.S.- and India-based employees, contractors, managers, technical leads, developers, QA engineers, and DevOps or site-reliability functions.\nProven ability to improve delivery predictability, software quality, engineering productivity, production reliability, and technical-debt management.\nStrong knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS architecture, tenant isolation, configuration management, API ecosystems, third-party integrations, data migration, high availability, performance engineering, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.\nStrong knowledge of cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, containerization, and modern application deployment practices.\nDeep technical experience with modern, currently supported versions of Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.\nExperience with relational and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and MongoDB, and with REST and GraphQL API design.\nAbility to guide performance optimization for high-concurrency, public-facing web applications and transaction-intensive workloads.\nStrong understanding of secure software development, OWASP risks, identity and access controls, privacy, dependency management, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security standards.\nExperience establishing architecture governance, engineering standards, software development lifecycle controls, technical-debt practices, and measurable engineering objectives.\nExperience with incident management, root-cause analysis, service-level objectives, operational readiness, monitoring, and production support for business-critical platforms.\nExperience managing budgets, vendors, contractors, cloud consumption, and blended internal and external workforces.\nStrong business acumen and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical options, risks, and tradeoffs into clear business terms for executives, clients, and non-technical partners.\nFamiliarity with marketplace capabilities such as payments, identity, fraud prevention, search, catalog management, notifications, integrations, and back-office workflows.\nPractical experience with AI-enabled product features, including vector search or image recognition, and with secure, effective use of AI-assisted software development tools.\nStrong knowledge of agile product development and the judgment to adapt processes to the needs of the business rather than apply them mechanically.\nAbility:\nLead decisively in a fast-paced environment with competing product, client, operational, and technical priorities.\nMove comfortably between strategic leadership, architecture oversight, delivery management, client engagement, and hands-on technical problem solving when needed.\nBuild alignment across Product, Client Services, Implementation, Security, Infrastructure, Sales, and business leadership.\nCommunicate clearly and credibly with engineers, executives, clients, and other non-technical stakeholders.\nExercise sound judgment, analytical rigor, organizational discipline, and attention to detail while empowering teams to execute.\nLocation:\nHybrid- Richardson, TX.\nWork Conditions/ Physical Demands:\nReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nOffice environment.\nTravel:\n0-10%\nPay & Benefits:\nCompensation is determined by various factors such as location, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as internal and external equity and organizational needs. Additionally, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.\nAt Liquidity Services, we provide a comprehensive benefits package that supports our employees' well-being and provides growth opportunities and career development. Our offerings include:\nCompetitive wages\nHealthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs, FSAs)\n401(k) plan\nPaid time off (PTO) and holidays\nPaid parental leave\nLife and disability insurance\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nProfessional development and tuition assistance\nDisclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. 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