Technical Director

5 hours ago

San Diego, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$120k - $140k/yr

Responsibilities

Establish and evolve technical standards and architectural approaches for modern enterprise websites, CMS platforms, frontend frameworks, integrations, hosting, infrastructure, data, search, analytics, and related systems.
Serve as senior technical authority for high-value or technically complex client engagements, advising on architecture, feasibility, risk, performance, launch readiness, and implementation plans.
Create reusable architectural patterns, shared packages, starter frameworks, generators, internal tools, playbooks, and reference implementations.
Raise standards for code quality, modularity, maintainability, performance, accessibility, testing, documentation, code review, security, and technical debt management.
Shape technical scope, estimates, risks, dependencies, assumptions, proposals, statements of work, change orders, and handoffs from sales to delivery.
Mentor engineers and technical leaders through architecture reviews, pairing, code reviews, technical guidance, and reusable engineering practices.
Evaluate emerging frameworks, platforms, developer tooling, AI capabilities, automation, and engineering practices, establishing where Webstacks should adopt, experiment, or standardize.
Partner with cross-functional leaders to improve delivery systems, reduce technical friction and rework, and align technical quality with scope, schedule, staffing, margin, and client expectations.

Deep experience with modern web architecture and the ability to establish pragmatic technical direction for complex enterprise engagements.
Strong judgment across architecture, code structure, maintainability, performance, accessibility, testing, documentation, security, and developer experience.
Ability to translate ambiguous business, strategic, and creative requirements into technical approaches that engineering teams can execute.
Client credibility and executive communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and delivery expectations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Commercial awareness of how technical decisions affect scope, timelines, staffing, risk, margin, and client expectations.
Experience identifying recurring problems and converting them into standards, reusable architecture, tooling, shared libraries, and improved ways of working.
Ability to mentor senior and mid-level engineers and develop technical leaders without becoming a bottleneck for routine decisions.
Comfort working close to implementation when needed while creating leverage across teams and engagements.
Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Strategy, Design, Program Management, Operations, Growth, and Account Leadership and influence without direct authority.
Interest in AI-assisted engineering, automation, emerging technologies, and developer tooling, with judgment about their practical value.

11-50 employees

Webstacks is a web design and development agency based in San Diego, CA. Our mission is simple: to be the pioneers of composable websites.