Dir. Software Engineering
UKG · Seattle, WA
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Jul 9, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical leadership role focused on designing and building secure, scalable platform services that handle sensitive customer data. The position combines hands-on coding with people management — overseeing architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices while translating product strategy into a delivery roadmap. Suited to someone with substantial software development experience who has also led engineering teams.
Senior level · 8+ years · National · Bachelor's required
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role explicitly requires 2+ years of people management, which is the primary signal for classifying this as a Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) role. However, the JD also emphasizes being 'hands-on with code' and deep technical architecture work, making 15-1252 Software Developers a genuine runner-up.
The programming language requirement lists C, C++, C#, .NET, Python, Java, and JavaScript as alternatives for 'deep expertise in one or more.' These are captured as a single skill with alternatives rather than separate required skills, since the JD gates on proficiency in at least one, not all.
.NET is listed alongside C# in the JD as a distinct platform; it is emitted as a separate skill to preserve that signal, though in practice C# and .NET are tightly coupled.
Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, GCP) and CI/CD familiarity appear under the 'Familiarity with' / secondary section of the posting, so they are marked preferred. CI/CD understanding is mentioned in the required section as conceptual ('Understand CI/CD pipelines') but specific tooling is listed only under the preferred/familiarity block.
GitHub Copilot is referenced in the required section ('leverage CoPilot') as an expected practice, but framed as a tool to use rather than a hard gate skill; it is listed under preferred given the ambiguity.
AI-powered development at enterprise scale is mentioned under required qualifications as 'Familiarity with' — a softened qualifier — so it is not emitted as a hard-gate skill.
Master's or PhD is listed as a preferred qualification; the hard minimum is a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. Since equivalent experience is accepted, the degree requirement is set to Bachelors (the stated floor, with no equivalency escape for the degree itself — the JD says 'or equivalent practical experience' only for the Bachelor's level).
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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