Dir Software Engineering

Job description

A Day in the Life: The Director of Software Engineering is a hands-on, strategic technology leader in the Product Engineering organization responsible for building, scaling, and modernizing the platforms and services that power Hertz’s pricing and rate management capabilities across all brands (Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty), countries, and partners. This role blends deep technical leadership, people development, and platform ownership. You will lead globally distributed engineering teams while remaining close to the code, architecture decisions, and delivery outcomes. You will partner closely with Product, Revenue Management, and downstream consuming teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems that support the end-to-end rates lifecycle: from price definition and rule management to distribution and auditability. You will help define how Hertz builds software: modern architectures, engineering culture, delivery excellence, and platform reliability on a global scale. What You’ll Do: - Lead the design, build, and modernization of rates systems supporting multi-brand, multi-country, and franchise operations - Own the future-state architecture for pricing and rates platforms, ensuring scalab...