Director of Engineering
Prismatic is hiring a Director of Engineering. It pays $220k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Prismatic.
Level's read on this job
- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions TypeScript, Python and Django among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- Prismatic has 2 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Lead the engineering team at Prismatic, overseeing integration platforms and developer tooling including AI agent functionality features.
Prismatic is the integration platform that helps B2B software companies build integrations fast and deliver them at scale. We're turning integrations from a bottleneck into a growth driver for hundreds of companies, from high-growth startups to Fortune 500s.
Our platform handles everything that breaks at scale, so teams can ship integrations, not infrastructure. It provides flexible, AI-enabled build experiences through code-native, low-code, and an embedded workflow builder, plus self-service configuration and an embedded marketplace.
Prismatic is well-funded with strong product-market fit and a high-agency, driven, collaborative culture.
About the role:
We're hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the Engineering organization. This role reports directly to the CTO and is the single engineering leader across two teams currently totaling 8 engineers, with a plan towards ~12. This is not a manager-of-managers role today, you’ll be directly managing the team. The ideal candidate is someone excited to directly lead a team of high performing Senior+ Engineers. Beyond the people management side, you'll own the full scope of execution: process, feature delivery, quality, while maintaining a highly engaged group of people.
Prismatic is built primarily in TypeScript (both frontend and backend), with some Python and Django on the backend and React on the frontend. We build a sophisticated low-code integration builder, an SDK and tools for building integrations fully in TypeScript, and features powering our customers' AI agent functionality. All of this on top of a high-scale, performance critical platform. While this is not a hands-on building role, being confident in the technology, and the challenges of a scaling a developer facing SaaS platform will be crucial to high quality decision making.
What will you do:
- Partner with Product to drive execution across all initiatives; on-time delivery, quality and consistency.
- Manage, coach, and grow all engineers directly, regular 1:1s, high-quality feedback, and growth conversations.
- Staff each initiative and pair it with the right Tech Lead; develop the Tech Lead bench so ownership keeps spreading.
- Surface and resolve cross-initiative risks: staffing gaps, priority collisions, delivery delays.
- Contribute to hiring: help us find, close, and ramp the next several engineers.
- Contribute technically where it helps, this isn't day-to-day code, but helping with architecture review, tech-debt analysis, scaling challenges, etc.
About you:
- Demonstrated progression from a technical role to a leadership role, with demonstrated experience managing multiple teams of Engineers in a fully remote environment.
- You've operated as the senior-most engineering leader in a group, or close to it; comfortable being the only manager, without a layer beneath you.
- Significant technical experience in at least one area of our stack; able to speak credibly in architecture and scoping conversations.
- Proven partner to Product on scope, estimation, and delivery commitments.
- Experience managing remote teams; excellent written communication
- Thrives on accountability, bias to action, strong desire to empower individuals and win as a team.
- Experience at a scaling SaaS startup in varying roles.
Bonus if you have experience with/in:
- AI-enabled software development
- Developer-facing products
- High scale SaaS platforms
Our tech stack:
- Cloud - AWS
- Databases - Postgres, Redis
- Backend API - Python & Django
- Backend Integration Platform - Typescript
- Frontend - Typescript & React
- SDKs - Typescript
Pay range:
- The pay range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000/yr, plus equity
- Most new hires start near the midpoint based on their relevant experience, skills, and qualifications, with room to grow within the range over time.
Life at Prismatic
Our Values
Our values shape everything we do—how we make decisions, collaborate, and operate day to day.
- Give a Shit – We bring passion and drive to our work. We believe what we're doing matters and we treat it that way.
- Progress Over Perfection – We value daily progress, moving fast, and iterating. We prefer a good solution now over a perfect one later.
- Same Team – We recognize that we succeed or fail as a group and help each other out. We don't tolerate assholes.
What to expect at Prismatic
We operate with urgency, ownership, and high standards. You'll be joining a team that's highly engaged, customer-obsessed, and constantly solving new problems that help B2B software companies scale their integration strategies.
To support this pace, we're also intentional about sustainability. We offer comprehensive benefits, unlimited PTO, and top-tier equipment for remote work.
Benefits
🏡 Remote work: Our team works remotely across the US; we travel together 2x times a year for company kick-offs and mid-year meetings.
🏖️ Unlimited PTO: We have an unlimited & flexible paid time off (PTO) policy that encourages our team to recharge when they need to.
🏥 Medical, dental & vision: Prismatic offers high-quality medical (Cigna Medical), dental (Guardian Dental) and vision (Guardian VSP) care for full-time employees and their dependents.
🛡️ Life insurance: We provide company-paid life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance through Guardian.
🏦 401(k): Our 401(k) plan is through Empower with 4% company match - 100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 2%.
💻 Computer & technology equipment: We provide the equipment you need to do your best work, applicable to your role + $1k new hire setup stipend.
Ready to Help Turn Integrations Into Growth Drivers?
We want diverse perspectives and experiences. If this role excites you but you're not sure you check every box, apply anyway. We consider every application thoughtfully and will either move forward with you, connect you with another team that might be a better fit, or keep in touch for future opportunities.
How we rate this
Director of Engineering at Prismatic rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Walk me through how you've used TypeScript in your day-to-day work.
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