INFUSE Academy is hiring a Deputy Director of Technology (Remote, Contract)

Demand Excellence Delivered. We are INFUSE, a global B2B demand and revenue marketing performance company. At the heart of INFUSE is a demand engine powered by data: first-party buying groups, deep intent signals, and exclusive competitor and market intelligence insights. This AI-driven demand engine ensures precision targeting across in-market buyer and account profiles to drive qualified interest. Omnichannel outreach and INFUSE-exclusive marketing programs identify and engage prospective buying groups throughout their journey. INFUSE demand generation tools and professionals are available in over 75 countries across all time zones. We proudly work with industry-leading brands such as VMware, ServiceNow, Google, AWS, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and many others. We are looking for someone, who would lead INFUSE’s technology function, scaling a high-performing engineering organization while delivering secure, AI-native products on a modern stack. Responsibilities - Own the technology strategy and execution roadmap across backend and frontend, ensuring delivery predictability, quality, and performance. - Lead and develop engineering leaders and teams (hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, coaching, and career ladders). - Drive architecture and engineering standards for our stack: Node.js (latest LTS), NestJS, pnpm, esbuild on the backend; React, Vue 3, Vite, pnpm on the frontend (with strong typing practices and modern engineering standards). - Build an AI-native engineering culture: identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases, set patterns for safe AI adoption, and define developer workflows for rapid iteration with appropriate governance. - Own edge and security posture with Cloudflare (WAF, DDoS, CDN, access controls as applicable), and ensure resilience, observability, and incident readiness. - Raise security and compliance maturity: threat modeling, secure SDLC, dependency management, access control, secrets management, vulnerability remediation SLAs, and audit readiness. - Establish modern engineering operations: delivery metrics, technical debt management, CI/CD expectations, release management, and post-incident reviews. Requirements - Proven experience in a senior technology leadership role, owning outcomes across multiple teams. - Distributed systems / event-driven architecture / Kafka / microservices + contract & version governance. - Strong hands-on background with modern backend development, including Node.js in production environments; NestJS experience strongly preferred. - Experience leading frontend engineering in a modern framework. - Solid understanding of modern build and tooling practices (e.g., pnpm, esbuild, Vite ecosystem), performance tuning, and developer experience. - Demonstrated ability to deliver AI-native products and/or platforms, including practical experience with LLM-enabled workflows and safe adoption patterns. - Working knowledge of Cloudflare services and edge/security concepts (WAF, CDN, DDoS protection, access controls) and ability to incorporate them into a secure architecture. - Strong security mindset and experience improving security maturity (secure SDLC, risk management, incident response, and stakeholder communication). - Excellent communication: ability to present clearly to executives, align cross-functional teams, and make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity. - Ability to work EST business hours and collaborate effectively with distributed teams. - Familiarity with Claude Code or comparable AI-assisted engineering workflows. What we offer: - Fully remote work format. - Opportunity to shape the backbone systems of a modern, data-driven digital company. - A collaborative, innovation-first environment that values initiative and experimentation. - Paid time off and sick leave. - Reduced working hours on Fridays during the summer. - Days-off on US national holidays + your birthday. If you’re excited to lead an engineering organization building secure, AI-native products and scaling delivery excellence, apply now. We can’t wait to meet you!