Director of Engineering - Platform & Integrations

Who We Are We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business. If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place. The Role We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Enterprise Platform and Integrations team. This leader will be responsible for the people, platforms, and delivery practices that power our external partner integrations and connect partner experiences to ZenBusiness’s formation, compliance, pricing, and fulfillment capabilities. This role combines engineering leadership with strong integration responsibilities. The Director will lead a pod of engineers, establish the technical strategy and evolve our Platform into a clear set of domain-aligned capabilities exposed through stable APIs, event , hosted domain services, agent ready tools and work closely with Product, Business Systems, Operations, and external partners to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. The ideal candidate is a strong people leader who understands modern API architecture and can translate business and partner needs into sustainable technical solutions. Responsibilities Engineering and People Leadership • Lead, coach, and develop the engineers supporting Platform APIs and partner integrations. • Create clear ownership, expectations, and development opportunities across the team. • Establish effective engineering practices for planning, design reviews, code reviews, testing, deployment, documentation, and production support. • Partner with Product and business leaders to build realistic roadmaps and make clear tradeoffs across partner commitments, platform investments, technical debt, and team capacity. • Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning for the team. • Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. API and Platform Strategy • Define the technical vision and roadmap for ZenBusiness’s Enterprise APIs and integration capabilities. • Lead the design and evolution of APIs, schemas, webhooks, authentication, fulfillment packages, and supporting developer tools. • Ensure APIs are scalable, secure, observable, well documented, and easy for partners to adopt. • Establish standards for API versioning, backward compatibility, change management, deprecation, and release communication. • Reduce partner-specific customizations by developing reusable platform capabilities and consistent integration patterns. • Partner with internal platform teams to connect Enterprise APIs to formation, compliance, pricing, order management, schemas, and fulfillment workflows. • Lead through influence across engineering teams whose systems contribute to the end-to-end partner experience, establishing clear ownership and resolving cross-team dependencies. • Evolve core business capabilities so they can be safely discovered and invoked by AI agents through MCP and other emerging standards, with clear authorization, observability, guardrails, and human oversight. Partner Integrations • Represent ZenBusiness in senior-level technical conversations with strategic par