DaySmart supercharges experienced-based businesses with innovative, industry-specific software services that power customer and revenue growth. With thousands of partners worldwide and dozens of industry awards, we provide best-in-class solutions to accelerate their business.
Time To Pet, a DaySmart company, is the leading software for in-home pet care providers. As we expand into new markets, we need a seasoned Director of Engineering to scale our teams, technology, and processes.
This is a high-impact role for an engineering leader who thrives in fast-growing SaaS environments. You’ll work closely with the product and customer experience teams to shape our roadmap, optimize team performance, and drive innovation.
Our ideal candidate is based in Austin, Texas to work from our office several days per week to foster close collaboration with the Time To Pet team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and lead the engineering vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with overarching business objectives and product roadmaps to drive sustained growth.
- Own the end-to-end development of new products, demonstrating deep technical expertise and a proven track record of building innovative solutions from the ground up.
- Build and scale a high-performing engineering team through strategic hiring, mentorship, and leadership development—growing the current team from 5 to 12+ within the next year while fostering technical excellence.
- Demonstrate strong technical leadership with hands-on involvement when necessary, bringing real technical expertise to guide complex engineering challenges.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, operating independently, running at speed to meet aggressive timelines, and delivering results without heavy oversight.
- Adopt a go-getter mindset, proactively identifying opportunities, solving problems, and driving engineering initiatives with determination and accountability.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices to deliver robust, reliable, secure, and scalable solutions that meet evolving business needs.
- Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement by empowering engineering and product teams to experiment, learn, and deliver impact-driven solutions.
- Drive critical architectural decisions that support long-term scalability, maintainability, and security, ensuring the technology stack evolves alongside business demands.
- Champion agile methodologies by refining sprint planning, execution, and delivery processes to optimize velocity and cross-functional collaboration.
- Streamline CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to accelerate release cycles, ensuring rapid, reliable, and high-quality software delivery.
- Manage engineering budgets, resources, and tools with a focus on maximizing operational efficiency, innovation, and return on investment.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of software development experience, with 7+ years leading engineering teams.
- Hands on experience with Laravel and API-first development.
- Proven experience scaling engineering teams
- Experience with B2B SaaS platforms
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Deep knowledge of agile methodologies and experience fostering agile best practices.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and collaborating with product and design.
Preferred
- Experience with React Native.
- Previous experience in a pet-related or service-based SaaS business.
- Background in data-driven decision-making (e.g., A/B testing, product analytics).
Salary
The salary for this role is $190,000 - $200,000 per year. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, internal equity, etc.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, and more!
- 401k plan with company match on your contributions.
- Open PTO and a generous paid holiday schedule.
- Supportive work environment with the flexibility to work where/how you want – in-office, remote, or hybrid.
- Opportunities to ensure you are always learning and growing.
How You Will Work
This position is based in Austin, Texas. The expectation would be to work from our office several days per week to foster close collaboration with the rest of the Time To Pet team. Our other office locations:-
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Wayne, PA
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What We Do
Time To Pet is an Austin, TX-based company focused on building business management software for pet sitters, dog walkers, dog daycare facilities, boarding facilities, groomers, and all types of pet care companies. Our SaaS product is designed to help our customers start, grow, and better manage their businesses.
We pride ourselves on our ability to rapidly deliver exciting new features to our clients, to provide unmatched customer support, and to help them build the best business possible. We do this by finding great people, using systems to manage and improve our processes, staying lean and nimble, listening to the needs of our clients, fully committing to customer success, and providing useful and relevant content.
Why Work With Us
Time To Pet provides you an amazing opportunity to work on exciting projects at a company that is growing quickly. We love what we do, we love our team, and we love the customers we do it for.
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