Director of Engineering, Data Platform

About point.me

At point.me, we’re on a mission to increase the spending power for millions of people by turning loyalty points into wealth. We are committed to simplifying the loyalty points experience and increasing our customers' spending power by using our real-time search and booking engine, making it easy to book flights with points.

Over the last two-plus decades, points and miles have evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Exact numbers aren’t published, but it’s estimated that $300 billion in award points are issued every year. For context, that’s on par with the GDP of Greece!

Join us and be part of a fast-growing company where your work will make a real impact on the future of award booking. We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity, comprehensive health coverage, and the opportunity to work fully remotely as part of a distributed team.

The Position

We’re looking for a Director of Engineering, Data Platform to lead the engineering strategy and execution for our core search platform team. You’ll own and evolve the technical foundation that powers point.me’s award pricing and availability capabilities. This role is responsible for defining and executing the strategy that makes point.me the best in the world at sourcing, distributing, and optimizing award data.

What You'll Do

• People Leadership: Lead, coach, and manage a team of engineers, driving growth, accountability, and high performance.

• Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy and make key architectural decisions to position point.me as the industry leader in distributing accurate, real-time award pricing and availability data.

• Define Success Framework: Define a strong, consistent metric framework for measuring success in our pricing and availability capability and drive improvements in those metrics.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with our commercial team to shape how search, data, and infrastructure are structured and exposed for enterprise customers.
• Product Strategy: Act as the product manager for the platform team, prioritizing initiatives, aligning resources, and ensuring the roadmap reflects both strategic platform needs and business impact.

Who You Are

• Strong track record of building, leading, and managing teams of high performing engineers.
• Strong collaborator and communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a strong ability to simplify complex systems with clarity, precision, and influence for executives, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Proactively manage expectations, build trust across the leadership team, and ensure alignment between technical direction and business priorities.
• Energized by solving hard, ambiguous technical problems that nobody else has cracked. You think deeply about distribution, optimization, and the future of award data.
• Strong technical point of view. You bring a clear, informed perspective on how data, systems design, and infrastructure should evolve to deliver world-class performance.
• Ability to make architectural decisions that balance speed, accuracy, and scalability, and you can explain the “why” behind them.
• Think beyond incremental improvement to find unconventional, high-leverage solutions to hard problems.

Why You'll Like Working Here

Join our growing team! Here at point.me we believe in taking care of our team, so that our team can take care of our customers. All employees are offered the following:

• Competitive salaries
• Ownership with meaningful equity
• Fully-paid Medical, Dental, Vision, HRA for US employees
• 100% distributed workforce, so you can contribute from anywhere
• Open vacation policy, with a minimum of 15 days off each year
• Paid family leave for all parents

The anticipated salary range for this role's listed level is $200,000-$265,000. Level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, in alignment with market data.

While our team members can join us from anywhere, all applicants must be available to work standard continental US hours.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At point.me, we value a diverse team. That's why we are committed to providing equal opportunity employment regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We encourage you to apply and to let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.