Director, Engineering - Finance Automation

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OUR MISSION

At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes.

ABOUT US

Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower you to orchestrate, manage and monitor your workflows across any application, service or server — in the cloud or on premises — with confidence and control. 

Redwood’s global team of automation experts and customer success engineers provide solutions and world-class support designed to give you the freedom and time to imagine and define your future. Get out of the weeds and see the forest, with Redwood Software.

CORE VALUES

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Respect Each Other

YOUR IMPACT

Redwood Software delivers powerful automation solutions that simplify and accelerate critical business and IT processes for some of the world’s largest enterprises. Our Finance Automation product line streamlines complex financial operations, reduces manual effort, ensures compliance, and accelerates financial close cycles through intelligent, cloud-native automation.

As Director of Engineering, Finance Automation, you’ll be a key leader in one of Redwood’s fastest-growing product areas. You’ll shape the technical strategy, scale engineering operations, and lead multiple engineering teams building and evolving our SaaS-based Finance Automation solutions. This is a high-impact role, requiring strong technical depth, operational leadership, and a passion for delivering world-class enterprise software.

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for multiple engineering teams responsible for Redwood’s Finance Automation products and services.

• Define and drive the technical roadmap, ensuring architectural scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence.

• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Success, and executive leadership to align engineering priorities with business goals.

• Oversee and improve engineering processes for Agile product development, continuous delivery, and cloud-native development.

• Foster a high-performance engineering culture grounded in accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric product thinking.

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, architects, and technical leads — supporting career growth and succession planning.

• Make high-level technical and architectural decisions to support enterprise-grade SaaS delivery.

• Ensure systems and services meet the highest standards for security, reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

• Partner with stakeholders to manage team capacity, hiring, and resource allocation as Redwood’s product portfolio grows.

• Track and report on key engineering KPIs related to delivery velocity, product quality, and operational performance.
   

YOUR EXPERIENCE 

• Experience in progressive software engineering experience, with experience in senior engineering leadership roles (managing managers preferred).

• Proven success building and scaling enterprise SaaS products, ideally in finance, automation, or workflow orchestration domains.

• Strong technical background in backend software development (e.g., Java or similar languages), distributed systems, and RESTful APIs.

• Experience leading teams building cloud-native applications on platforms like AWS or Azure.

• Deep understanding of financial processes, ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), and compliance-driven workflows is a strong plus.

• Track record of leading Agile software development processes and cross-functional product delivery.

• Exceptional leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with experience managing distributed, remote teams.

• Experience in operationalizing DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous cloud delivery best practices.

• Background in ERP automation, workload automation, financial process automation, or RPA technologies.

• Familiarity with accounting principles, financial regulations (SOX, GDPR), or financial data integrations.

• Experience integrating with ERP or financial management systems.

• Previous involvement in cloud transformation or SaaS platform modernization initiatives.
   

WHY REDWOOD?

• Lead one of Redwood’s most strategic product lines with enterprise-wide business impact.

• Work with experienced, collaborative leadership and help shape the future of enterprise automation.

• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams working on meaningful, real-world enterprise software.

• Competitive salary, benefits, and flexible work environment — with room to innovate and make your mark.

If you like growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

THE LEGAL BIT
Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. Redwood prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy or any other consideration made unlawful by regional or local laws. We also prohibit discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful and will have a zero tolerance policy applied to it.
 

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