Engineering - ReConnect Director

Company Overview:
At Lineage, we're transforming temperature-controlled logistics to eliminate waste, improve sustainability, and ensure food reaches the people who need it most. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies and featured on CNBC's Disruptor 50, we're at the forefront of innovation in the global food supply chain.

Technology is core to how we operate-and to how we differentiate. Rather than scaling a massive engineering organization, we've built a highly skilled, focused team that brings together the right blend of talent, curiosity, and technical depth. We combine open-source technologies, cloud services, proprietary tools, and strategic partnerships to move fast and build impactful solutions.

Our systems power mission-critical workflows across Lineage's global network. From warehouse operations to algorithmic optimization, we're building modern, scalable platforms that support our people, serve our customers, and enable growth. At the heart of that work is our purpose: to transform the food supply chain and help feed the world.

Position Summary:
As Director of Engineering for ReConnect-a multi-year initiative to modernize the internal architecture of Lineage's proprietary warehouse management system (Connect)- you'll lead a focused engineering team tasked with strengthening the foundation of one of the most critical platforms in our global network.

ReConnect isn't about building new features or changing the user interface. It is about transforming what's under the hood: improving API design, code structure, modularity, testability, and long-term maintainability-without disrupting the daily operations Connect supports across nearly 100 Lineage facilities.

While Connect already runs on a modern stack (React, React Native, Node.js, SQL Server), there's meaningful opportunity to raise the bar on engineering quality and scalability. In this role, you'll define what "good" looks like-delivering a golden sample and setting the blueprint for how the platform evolves in the years ahead.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role-ideal for someone who thrives in complex, high-impact environments and is eager to shape the future of supply chain technology at global scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of internal and external technical resources to reinvest in our world-class warehouse management system
• Set goals and expectations both within the team and with other technical and business leaders and deliver to them
• Work closely with product management to understand business requirements and associated priorities
• Ensure sound architectural decisions are made and documented
• Interface with cloud engineers, tech leads, and SMEs to solve complex problems and resolve disagreement with informed, rational, and practical solutions
• Help identify, plan, estimate, execute, and help track software engineering work
• Explore suitable open source and commercial off the shelf software to accelerate the capabilities of the platform
• Grow and maintain a broad and deep knowledge of supply chain operations and associated technologies
• Mentor and provide guidance to other team members - both technical and non-technical
• Be equally adept at managing technologists as participating in technical design and be willing to actively participate in all facets of the SDLC
• Maintain relationships with vendors and partners
• Travel (domestically) to meet with team members and partners

Required Qualifications:

Education & Work Experience

• 8+ years of direct software application engineering experience; including at least 4 years as a software engineer and an equivalent amount of time spent leading software engineering teams
• Prior work on large software engineering projects (>40 team members)
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams including both internal and external team members
• Knowledge of supply chain processes and associated technologies is helpful
• University degree in computer science or software engineering is preferred

Skills & Abilities

• Possess a willingness to be coached and proactively seek feedback
• Handle multiple assignments / projects simultaneously
• Properly set priority and order for work
• Work in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Ask for help and provide it to others
• Understand your skills and your talents and apply them appropriately
• Learn and apply new technologies and business concepts
• Maintain personal accountability for getting things done on time and with quality results
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain technical concepts to business leaders and other non-technical teammates
• Exemplify Lineage's values of safety, trust, respect, boldness, innovation, and servant leadership- which shape how we build, lead, and collaborate every day

Why Lineage?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers' requirements. Beyond that, you'll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We'll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.

Benefits

Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.