Staff Engineer - Director

Job Description:

• Own the target architecture and modernization build strategy for a legacy .NET revenue and debt-recovery platform
• Define specifications, architecture, sequencing, and acceptance criteria for an external delivery partner
• Direct the partner's agentic build process, including scope, order of work, acceptance, merge gates, and escalation
• Review generated code for maintainability and manage specification drift, blueprint coherence, regeneration, and test limitations
• Establish equivalence evidence for money-related functionality and rule on divergences
• Decide which legacy components are reused, rebuilt, or deliberately left unchanged
• Run the delivery relationship, including cadence, gates, commercial and technical discussions, and quality standards
• Ensure Neumo can build, deploy, operate, and modify the delivered system independently of the partner
• Build internal engineers' capability in the new system and own enduring documentation and operational runbooks
• Translate build status, risks, assumptions, and decisions for executives
• Represent Neumo's technical position with partners, customers, and procurement
• Deliver a system ready for pilot within 90-120 days, with statutory and financial behavior evidenced, accessibility gates passed, and knowledge transferred

Requirements:

• 12+ years building and operating production software, including significant time at staff or principal level
• Real depth in agentic or AI-assisted software delivery at production scale; shipped systems this way
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for large, multi-team systems
• Experience directing external delivery partners, consultancies, or systems integrators
• Experience with scope definition, acceptance criteria, and delivery oversight
• Track record of incremental legacy modernization, including strangler patterns, coexistence, live data migration, and cutovers with no tolerance for loss
• Deep relational database experience
• Comfort with .NET and a modern web stack
• Exceptional written communication
• Judgement to distinguish acceptable divergences from blockers, particularly in financial calculation
• Comfort operating with authority over an external team and without authority over colleagues
• Proven effectiveness in a remote, distributed organization

Benefits:

• Competitive benefits and compensation package
• Fully remote work arrangement