Director, Engineering

Company Description

Overview 
SPANX isn’t your average company. We revolutionized an industry by challenging the status quo and putting the customer first. You might know the story: our founder, Sara Blakely, who needed the right thing as a base layer to feel 100% in white pants, so she cut the legs off a pair of tights and Spanx was born. The spark of that origin is the fuel for our future. We grew up in shapewear. But we’ve graduated. For 25 years (yep, we're old enough to rent a car now), we've been experimenting, innovating, and occasionally banging our heads against the drawing board. And we will never stop obsessing about what women who are out there doing their thing deserve. Because we are those women. And we’re honored to create on behalf of us all.

We make elevated essentials with confidence built in. Essentials for layering underneath or wearing out loud, for “just-between-us” and “where'd you get that?” For everything you've got planned (and don't). Because what you put on can change how you show up. And if its' not working for you, it's got no place in your closet. Or on your body. Creating items that’ll make you feel great is a matter of the heart—and the lab. In every Spanx product is technology we design and build to highlight, complement, and form your look, just the way you like it. SPANX design and technology help make sure what you see in the mirror reflects that feeling of feeling your best (you know the feeling?). We are a high-growth, innovative and ambitious company and we are embarking on an exciting trajectory of both digital and international expansion.

About the role 
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Director of Engineering to lead the technical strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of our digital commerce ecosystem. In this role, you will champion engineering best practices, foster a high-performance team culture, and ensure seamless integration of mission-critical platforms including CMS, PIM, and search and recommendation engines. You will own relationships with key external technology partners and vendors, ensuring effective collaboration and long-term scalability. As a cross-functional leader, you’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and IT to build robust, personalized, and data-driven customer experiences on a global scale.

Job Description

You’ll love it because you will…

• Define and execute the vision and strategy for the core systems that power our digital product and eCommerce experience. 
• Collaborate with Digital Product, IT, and business stakeholders to align solutions with strategic goals. 
• Lead integrations of key platforms (Shopify, Sanity, Salsify, Algolia/Elasticsearch) ensuring seamless system interaction. 
• Adopt and integrate AI/ML solutions to drive personalization and enhance the user experience. 
• Drive the design of robust APIs and event-driven architecture to support scalable, real-time communication and enrich our data warehouse. 
• Lead engineering excellence by prioritizing system reliability, establishing robust monitoring, logging, and alerting processes to ensure uninterrupted, high-performance operations. 
• Mentor and lead a high-performing engineering team that loves to ship. 
• Own external vendor relationships, ensuring effective delivery and system maintenance. 
• Guide senior leadership on technology opportunities to enhance platform performance. 
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations (GDPR, CCPA). 

Qualifications

We require…

• 10+ years experience in software engineering or system integration, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles managing large-scale, customer-facing platforms. 
• Proven track record managing high-scale eCommerce platforms serving millions of customers with minimal downtime. 
• Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and optimize complex, real-time data pipelines and data flow systems, including experience with tools such as DBT, Snowflake, and Fivetran. 
• Deep experience designing integrations for eCommerce platforms such as Shopify, Sanity, Salsify, Algolia, Elasticsearch. 
• Proven ability to lead lean, globally distributed engineering teams, establish core competencies, foster team growth through personal and professional development, and cultivate an output-oriented culture focused on achieving KPIs. 
• Deep expertise in modern DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code, automation, and continuous delivery at scale. 
• Extensive expertise with observability, monitoring and alerting tools (Datadog, Sentry, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Pager Duty). 
• Track record of operational excellence, including reliability engineering (SRE) and incident response management. 
• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud and container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker). 
• Expertise in API architecture (REST, GraphQL) and designing event-driven systems. 
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and SQL. 
• Solid grasp of key data privacy and security standards relevant to global eCommerce operations. 
• The following role-critical competencies: Leading and Deciding, Organizing and Executing, Creating and Conceptualizin
  
  Preferred Qualifications 
• Direct experience implementing and maintaining headless architecture with Shopify. 
• Product-oriented and data-driven mindset. High agency in discovering insights from product data and leading teams with measurable outcomes. 
• Experience with ML-driven personalization and recommendation systems. 
• Proficiency with SWE agents (Cursor, Claude Code), active experimentation with new AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity and quality, and a vision to uplevel their team using AI. 
   

Additional Information

Spanx is proud of our continued Progressive People Practices…

• Company Healthcare Plan: $0.00 out of pocket (Employee only benefit)
  Fertility testing and treatment are included in Spanx’s medical plans, even without the diagnosis of infertility. 
• Parental Leave Policy: Primary caregiver receives 16 weeks AND will have the option to work a half-time schedule (20 hours per week) for up to four additional weeks with full-time (40 hours per week) pay.
• Mental Health Days: 10 days
• 401K: Matched up to 4% with immediate vesting.
• PTO & Company Holidays: PLUS two full weeks of companywide closures (one in the Summer; one between Christmas and NYE)
• Flex Friday: Year-round half day Fridays!