Dir Software Engineering at Hertz
United States
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="normaltextrun"><strong>A Day in the Life:</strong></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will help define how Hertz builds software: modern architectures, engineering culture, delivery excellence, and platform reliability at global scale.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you will do:</strong></span></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead the design, build, and modernization of global consumer & rental systems supporting multi-brand, multi-country, and franchise operations</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Own the future-state architecture for rental platforms, ensuring scalability, configurability, and regulatory compliance across regions</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with cross functional leaders on your product teams (product management, design) to develop and execute backlogs & roadmaps </span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, technical design, and selective pairing with senior engineers</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Build and lead high-performing global engineering teams (onshore, nearshore, offshore)</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop engineering talent; drive career paths, rotations, and learning plans</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish and evolve engineering standards: cloud-native patterns, APIs, event-driven systems, resiliency, and observability</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive a culture of ownership, quality, speed, and empathy</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure platforms are secure, compliant, highly available, and operationally excellent</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align on shared services and technology strategy</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Stay current with new technology trends in the platform, AI, streaming and IoT space</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure high quality, consistent, easy to use and compliance software solutions</span></span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></span></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10+ years of Software Engineering experience designing and implementing solutions using cloud native technologies and Agile methodologies</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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). </span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience implementing enterprise integration / transformation patterns (abstract, surround, strangle) to integrate cloud native solutions with enterprise data sources & systems / (MQ, SOAP, XML) </span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A pattern of success on teams using Agile Methodologies</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field. </span></span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Starting salary is $175,000. The actual salary will be determined based on years of relevant work experience.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You’ll Get:</strong></span></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">40% off any standard Hertz Rental </span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paid Time Off</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Medical, Dental & Vision plan options</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Employee Assistance Program for employees & family</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Educational Reimbursement & Discounts</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness</span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more</span></span></li></ul> <br>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. <div> <div> </div> <b>US EEO STATEMENT</b> <div> 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. </div> <div> Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique. </div> <div> EOE, including disability/veteran </div> </div>
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