Engineering Director

Responsibilities

• Lead a Global Team: Manage and mentor a distributed team of engineers across time zones. You'll set the cultural tone, build bridges across geographies, and create the conditions for consistently high-velocity execution.
• Grow the Team: Own recruiting and talent development for your teams-defining the hiring bar, building the pipeline, and investing in the growth of the engineers already here.
• Stay Close to the Work: Your primary job is leadership, but you won't manage from a distance. You'll be in the code reviews, shaping architectural decisions, and rolling up your sleeves when the team needs to break through a hard problem.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Define what great engineering looks like at Obvio-from code review standards to testing culture to deployment practices-and build the tooling and processes (CI/CD, architecture reviews) that make high-quality work the path of least resistance.

Requirements

• Managerial Grit: 5+ years leading engineering teams in fast-moving environments. You've managed through ambiguity, made hard calls, and come out the other side with stronger teams. Experience with distributed or international teams is a significant plus.
• Technical Depth: 12+ years of hands-on experience building web-based applications. You can go deep on architecture, spot a bad technical decision before it becomes a production incident, and earn the respect of strong engineers. Python, React, and AWS experience is a plus.
• Architectural Vision: You've successfully modernized or rebuilt legacy systems while keeping production stable-and you know that the hardest part isn't the technology, it's managing the transition.
• Operational Instincts: You treat uptime as a product feature. You know how to instrument systems, diagnose bottlenecks, and build the on-call culture that keeps pages rare and recoveries fast. You understand that if our review tool goes down, enforcement stops-and you take that seriously.
• First Principles Mindset: You don't cargo-cult solutions from your last company. You understand our constraints, dig into the specifics, and build what's right for where Obvio is today and where it's going.
• What Sets Obvio Apart
• Mission: This is not a generic tech role. The systems you build will directly support safer streets and help prevent thousands of deaths annually.
• Ownership: You'll have a real seat at the table-shaping not just your teams but the engineering culture and technical direction of the company at a critical inflection point.
• Impact: You're not being hired to maintain the status quo. You're being hired to transform it.
• Growth: Competitive compensation, meaningful early-stage equity, and the chance to build a world-class engineering organization from the ground up.
• Why Obvio
• Your work will help save lives and improve road safety
• Series A of $22M led by Bain Capital

Benefits

Additional Information

About Obvio AI Each year, more than 40,000 people in the U.S. leave home and never make it back due to traffic crashes. At Obvio, we believe these deaths are preventable. We deploy solar-powered, AI-assisted cameras to enforce traffic laws where pedestrians are most vulnerable-automating enforcement in ways that traditional systems cannot. Our approach has already led to a 50% reduction in reckless driving in early partner cities. Founded by the team behind Motive's AI dashcam and backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Khosla Ventures, we are building the intelligence layer for safer streets globally. Obvio is hiring its first Engineering Director to lead two of our most critical product teams-Ticketing and Platform-at a pivotal moment in our growth. You'll own the systems that sit at the heart of our mission: the portals used daily by law enforcement agencies and drivers, the external integrations into government and processing systems, the payments infrastructure that keeps our business running, and the cloud foundation that the entire engineering org depends on. Our current systems were built to get us here-fast. Now, with serious momentum behind us, we need to mature them into infrastructure that can scale with our ambitions. This role is equal parts operator and architect: someone who can keep the trains running today while laying the tracks for where we're going tomorrow. If you've led engineering through a hypergrowth phase before and have the scars to show for it, we'd love to talk.

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