# Director, Software Engineering at Twenty

- Company: Twenty
- What the company does: The #1 Open Source CRM for modern teams. Modular, scalable, and built to fit your business. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://twenty.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Arlington, VA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $224K to $470K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/twenty/43bee1c9-0696-455b-b285-2705d7fde8ee
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/twenty-director-software-engineering/

## About the role

Own engineering execution across the product: delivery, quality, and technical accountability across all teams. Lead, develop, and hold accountable a set of engineering managers; build their capacity to run their teams independently.

## What they're looking for

- You lead through managers: you develop them, hold them accountable, and build the systems that let them succeed independently
- You have the technical depth to engage meaningfully on architecture and design with senior ICs—you don't need to write the code, but you need to understand it
- You think at the org level: headcount, team structure, scope boundaries, and sequencing are as natural to you as roadmap and delivery
- You execute with rigor and communicate with clarity—up to VP and across to peers, without losing the technical truth
- You thrive in hybrid deployment environments: you understand the operational complexity of software that lives both in cloud and on customer-controlled infrastructure
- You hold a high bar and create the conditions for others to meet it—through clarity, coaching, and accountability

Tags: Engineering