Pfizer

Director, Principal Engineer, Developer Surfaces

Pfizer
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Base Salary

$177k - $294k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction, architecture, technology choices, and implementation standards across Mac, Windows, web, and MCP developer surfaces.
  • Lead complex engineering projects through discovery, architecture, delivery, operational support, and continuous improvement.
  • Build consensus and coordinate objectives, dependencies, schedules, and delivery across multiple independent engineering teams.
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance in frontend, desktop, backend, and developer-tooling systems, particularly Electron and Vue.
  • Ensure secure, privacy-first, compliant, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions, including proper SaaS configuration.
  • Collaborate with enterprise architects, business architects, vendors, developers, product owners, security teams, and operations.
  • Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, facilitate code reviews and knowledge sharing, and improve developer experience.
  • Lead or assist with security incidents and operational outages, including containment, troubleshooting, recovery, and post-mortem analysis.
  • Document technical work, estimate complex technical stories, and break initiatives into deliverable components.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 8 years of experience in frontend, desktop, or developer-tooling engineering with increasing responsibility.
  • Extensive software-engineering experience leading complex projects and a well-documented senior-level engineering background.
  • Broad technical knowledge across frontend, desktop, and backend systems, with a primarily frontend-oriented full-stack generalist profile.
  • Hands-on experience building and shipping developer-facing tools across more than one surface, ideally including Electron and Vue.
  • Experience architecting complex integrated solutions and conducting technical discovery aligned to business objectives.
  • Experience with DevOps environments, enterprise-scale software delivery, CI/CD practices, RESTful APIs, integration patterns, and microservice patterns.
  • Experience with the Model Context Protocol or comparable programmatic interfaces for AI agents and scripts.
  • Understanding of privacy-by-design, security-by-design, DevSecOps, data handling regulations, and pharmaceutical-industry policies and standards.
  • Strong technical leadership, mentoring, communication, stakeholder partnership, analytical, problem-solving, estimation, and collaboration skills.
  • Professional certifications in engineering leadership are preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Annual performance-plan bonus target of 20% of base salary and eligibility for a share-based long-term incentive program.
  • 401(k) with Pfizer matching contributions and an additional Pfizer retirement savings contribution.
  • Paid vacation, holidays, personal days, caregiver/parental leave, and medical leave.
  • Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and eligibility.
  • The application deadline is October 19, 2026.

Tech Stack

ElectronVue.js
Pfizer

About Pfizer

10,000+ employees

Pfizer is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and vaccines for patients, healthcare systems, and governments worldwide. Its portfolio spans oncology, vaccines, immunology, and rare disease, with products such as the COVID-19 vaccine (with BioNTech) and the antiviral Paxlovid. Founded in 1849 and headquartered in New York City, Pfizer operates globally under the ticker PFE on the NYSE.

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