We are hiring a Director of Engineering for our Services team to own solution quality, technical strategy, and engineering delivery across OpenFn’s implementation portfolio, taking responsibility for technical decisions from pre-sales conversations with prospective customers to implementation with government clients and final project handover.
This role sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, integration design, software engineering, and implementation leadership. You will be the person who learns the OpenFn platform inside and out, its capabilities, its limits, and how to apply it well, and you will use that knowledge to guide internal and external implementation teams delivering workflow automation and interoperability solutions for government ministries, health systems, and large NGOs.
You will be the go-to technical expert for our software engineers and consultants when technical challenges arise in integration pipelines, local deployments, or solution design. You bridge knowledge gaps, resolve problems, and mentor the team in their work, bringing the engineering expertise, architectural judgment, and platform knowledge (we’ll teach you!) to move things forward with confidence. You establish best practice in code quality, working methods, and engineering approach.
Think of it as a hybrid of internal CTO, platform authority, solution architect, and technical quality lead for the services side of the business, which implements the OpenFn Digital Public Good for government and NGO customers in countries all over the world. You are not expected to own core product engineering, though you’ll influence it heavily through the feedback loop described below. You are expected to ensure that every solution the Services team designs and ships is architecturally sound, fit-for-purpose, and built last. You will manage and mentor a global team of engineers, build lasting technical capacity in country IT teams, and help shape an open source project used in 40+ countries.
As a director-level hire, you will also help build the institutional knowledge that makes the whole team stronger over time: establishing architecture patterns and engineering best practices, defining what quality looks like, providing critical feedback to the core product and roadmap, and creating the resources that help OpenFn scale its implementation work without scaling its complexity.