Senior Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating the middleware foundation that powers AccuWeather’s digital experiences across web, mobile, and partner channels. We're looking for a collaborative, energetic leader with deep architectural knowledge, engineering discipline, and a passion for resilient, scalable software systems.

This position is required to be located onsite at AccuWeather's State College, PA Headquarters

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of AccuWeather’s core middleware platform, including APIs, microservices, orchestration layers, authentication, rules engines, and system integrations.

• Define and execute the middleware technology roadmap in collaboration with Product and Engineering aligning technical initiatives with strategic business needs.

• Drive system-wide performance, scalability, and reliability, ensuring middleware services meet SLAs and enable exceptional customer experiences across all touchpoints.

• Guide middleware integration for critical enterprise systems such as billing, login, entitlements, and product catalog services, enabling seamless interactions across the digital ecosystem.

• Oversee the development and optimization of push notification infrastructure, enhancing real-time communication capabilities for global audiences.

• Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability, and cloud-native design, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

• Lead, coach, and grow a geographically distributed engineering team, attracting and retaining top talent, and creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing culture.

• Establish and maintain relationships with external vendors and partners to ensure successful third-party integrations and maximize ROI on technology investments.

• Contribute to Technology strategy, budget planning, and organizational alignment, ensuring middleware initiatives are effectively scoped, prioritized, and resourced.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; MS or equivalent experience preferred.

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 7+ years in technical leadership or management roles.

• Proven ability to lead engineering teams building and operating large-scale, distributed platforms and middleware architectures.

• Deep experience with enterprise integration patterns, RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, mapping, and middleware platforms.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), microservices, containerization, and distributed systems design.

• Expertise in CDNs, caching strategies, and performance optimization techniques (e.g., Akamai).

• Expertise in modern scripting languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), especially for backend and service-layer development.

• Experience with programming languages such as C#, Java, or similar, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and modern deployment frameworks.

• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and Agile development methodologies.

• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams of 20+, including mentoring, performance management, and career development.

• Skilled in managing contracting vendors and consultants.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills; able to influence across organizational boundaries.

ABOUT ACCUWEATHER

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.