Ukraine Remote (Global) Contract

INFUSE Academy is hiring a Deputy Director of Technology (Remote, Contract)

Responsibilities

  • Own the technology strategy and execution roadmap across backend and frontend, ensuring delivery predictability, quality, and performance.
  • Lead and develop engineering leaders and teams (hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, coaching, and career ladders).
  • Drive architecture and engineering standards for our stack: Node.js (latest LTS), NestJS, pnpm, esbuild on the backend; React, Vue 3, Vite, pnpm on the frontend (with strong typing practices and modern engineering standards).
  • Build an AI-native engineering culture: identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases, set patterns for safe AI adoption, and define developer workflows for rapid iteration with appropriate governance.
  • Own edge and security posture with Cloudflare (WAF, DDoS, CDN, access controls as applicable), and ensure resilience, observability, and incident readiness.
  • Raise security and compliance maturity: threat modeling, secure SDLC, dependency management, access control, secrets management, vulnerability remediation SLAs, and audit readiness.
  • Establish modern engineering operations: delivery metrics, technical debt management, CI/CD expectations, release management, and post-incident reviews.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a senior technology leadership role, owning outcomes across multiple teams.
  • Distributed systems / event-driven architecture / Kafka / microservices + contract & version governance.
  • Strong hands-on background with modern backend development, including Node.js in production environments.
  • Experience leading frontend engineering in a modern framework.
  • Solid understanding of modern build and tooling practices (e.g., pnpm, esbuild, Vite ecosystem), performance tuning, and developer experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver AI-native products and/or platforms, including practical experience with LLM-enabled workflows and safe adoption patterns.
  • Working knowledge of Cloudflare services and edge/security concepts (WAF, CDN, DDoS protection, access controls) and ability to incorporate them into a secure architecture.
  • Strong security mindset and experience improving security maturity (secure SDLC, risk management, incident response, and stakeholder communication).
  • Excellent communication: ability to present clearly to executives, align cross-functional teams, and make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity.
  • Ability to work EST business hours and collaborate effectively with distributed teams.

Nice to Have

  • NestJS experience strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with Claude Code or comparable AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work format.
  • Opportunity to shape the backbone systems of a modern, data-driven digital company.
  • A collaborative, innovation-first environment that values initiative and experimentation.
  • Paid time off and sick leave.
  • Reduced working hours on Fridays during the summer.
  • Days-off on US national holidays + your birthday.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Additional Information

  • Contract role
  • Remote
  • Must be able to work EST business hours
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INFUSE Academy builds and operates programs focused on digital education and innovation, helping individuals and organizations grow through technology-driven learning and transformation.
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