Dir Software Engineering

The Hertz Corporation • Springfield, IL • 3h ago

A Day in the Life:

The Director of Software Engineering is a hands-on, strategic technology leader responsible for building and modernizing Hertz's next-generation rental platforms that power all brands (Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty), countries, and franchise partners.

This role blends deep technical leadership, people development, and platform ownership. You will lead globally distributed engineering teams while remaining close to the code, architecture decisions, and delivery outcomes. You will partner closely with Product, Operations, and Franchise teams to build scalable, resilient systems that support the full rental lifecycle - from reservation to return.

You will help define how Hertz builds software: modern architectures, engineering culture, delivery excellence, and platform reliability at global scale.

What you will do:

Lead the design, build, and modernization of global consumer & rental systems supporting multi-brand, multi-country, and franchise operations

Own the future-state architecture for rental platforms, ensuring scalability, configurability, and regulatory compliance across regions

Collaborate with cross functional leaders on your product teams (product management, design) to develop and execute backlogs & roadmaps

Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, technical design, and selective pairing with senior engineers

Build and lead high-performing global engineering teams (onshore, nearshore, offshore)

Develop engineering talent; drive career paths, rotations, and learning plans

Establish and evolve engineering standards: cloud-native patterns, APIs, event-driven systems, resiliency, and observability

Drive a culture of ownership, quality, speed, and empathy

Ensure platforms are secure, compliant, highly available, and operationally excellent

Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align on shared services and technology strategy

Stay current with new technology trends in the platform, AI, streaming and IoT space

Ensure high quality, consistent, easy to use and compliance software solutions

What We're Looking For:

10+ years of Software Engineering experience designing and implementing solutions using cloud native technologies and Agile methodologies

Demonstrated success with modern development practices including RESTful API & microservice development, AWS, containerization techniques (such as DEE and Kubernetes) NoSQL, build systems (Maven, Gradle) and version control (Git).

Experience implementing enterprise integration / transformation patterns (abstract, surround, strangle) to integrate cloud native solutions with enterprise data sources & systems / (MQ, SOAP, XML)

A pattern of success on teams using Agile Methodologies

Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field.

Starting salary is $175,000. The actual salary will be determined based on years of relevant work experience.

What You'll Get:

40% off any standard Hertz Rental??

Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental & Vision plan options

Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching

Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

Employee Assistance Program for employees & family

Educational Reimbursement & Discounts

Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness

Perks & Discounts -Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.

US EEO STATEMENT

At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture - and our success and reputation as a company.

Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.

EOE, including disability/veteran

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