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Director of Software Engineering | Nox Metals | Detroit, MI
American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. Nox Metals is the supply chain behind it.
Nox Metals is a technology company in Detroit supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible.
We need a Director of Software Engineering to lead the team building the systems that run the company. Our software is not a side project, it is the product. NOX NEST runs the factory floor, WAYNE runs nesting and quoting, Gondor runs the customer experience, MORIA runs inventory and demand intelligence. Every shipment we send goes out because of code we wrote. This role owns the engineering org, the roadmap, and the team that builds it. Nox Metals is an employer with real opportunity for long term career growth, this is a place to build a career, not just hold a job.
You will:
Lead, hire, and grow the engineering team across NOX NEST, WAYNE, Gondor, and MORIA
Own the engineering roadmap end to end, set priorities, ship on time
Stay hands on, write code, review PRs, pair with engineers on the hardest problems
Work directly with the founder to translate company strategy into engineering execution
Walk the floor every week and make sure the team is building what the business actually needs
Set the bar for code quality, system design, deploy hygiene, on call, and production reliability
Run the hiring loop, close candidates, and onboard new engineers fast
Drive real ML and AI features into production, cut time models, demand intelligence, AI parsing of sales orders, agentic workflows across the company
Own production systems, incident response, postmortems, and the culture of fix forward
Make the team faster every quarter, better tools, better workflows, better leverage on AI
Look at every system and figure out how to make it better
Work safely every shift and hold the team to the same standard
You should be:
7+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years leading and managing a team
Track record of shipping production software at a startup, ideally scaled a team from a handful to 10+ engineers
Strong in TypeScript, Node, and modern web frameworks (NestJS, Next.js, React, or comparable)
Deep experience with Postgres, Supabase, or comparable database and backend platforms
Still writes production code and wants to
Cracked with AI tools, you use them every day and you have figured out how to make a whole team 10x more efficient with them
A builder at heart, you would rather ship a working v1 today than ship a perfect v3 next month, and you instill that in the team
Strong product instincts, you sit with a customer or an operator and turn what you see into a roadmap
A great manager of engineers, you grow people, you give hard feedback, you set a high bar, and people want to work for you
Comfortable working close to the metal, the floor, the customer, the operator, your team writes software that lives in the real world and you lead from the front
Relentless on quality, every PR, every deploy, every customer-facing experience
Always thinking about how to make systems better, you do not accept "this is how we have always done it"