Life at UiPath

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. Were committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power.

To make that happen we need people who are curious self-propelled generous and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving fast-thinking growth company. And people who careabout each other about UiPath and about our larger purpose.

Could that be you

Your mission

Join the Vertical Solutions team and lead one of UiPaths most strategic and innovative initiatives. As Director of Software Engineering you will be responsible for defining the vision driving execution across globe foster innovation and scale the engineering organization.

The ideal candidate brings a unique blend of deep technical expertise in modern AI architectures and full stack systems with strong people leadership and a proven track record of creating meaningful customer and business impact. You thrive in fast-paced environments navigate ambiguity with confidence and inspire teams to move from vision to execution while maintaining a high bar for quality scalability and operational excellence.

What youll do at UiPath

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Drive Innovation and lead with Customer first mindset.

• Define and execute the engineering vision and architectural decisions facross backend frontend and AI products

• Drive architectural decisions across backend frontend and AI systems.

• Establish engineering standards design principles and operational best practices for AI-native product development.

AI Systems & Innovation

• Lead the development of production-grade AI applications leveraging LLMs agents tool-calling frameworks and workflow orchestration systems.

• Drive adoption of modern AI engineering practices including evaluation frameworks regression testing observability and human-in-the-loop workflows.

• Guide teams in designing agentic systems utilizing LangGraph LangChain or equivalent orchestration frameworks.

• Champion experimentation and rapid prototyping while ensuring production readiness and scalability.

Organizational Leadership

• Partner closely with Product Design Data Science and Business stakeholders to align technology investments with strategic objectives.

• Build mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams across multiple product areas.

• Foster a culture of ownership innovation accountability and customer obsession.

Delivery Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end execution of complex cross-functional initiatives.

• Drive engineering productivity through AI-powered development tools and modern software development practices.

• Ensure operational excellence through robust CI/CD pipelines observability reliability engineering and cloud-native architectures.

• Manage technical risk architecture evolution and platform scalability as products grow.

What youll bring to the team

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 15 years of software engineering experience including 8 years leading engineering teams and large-scale technical programs.

• Proven experience building and scaling enterprise-grade distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.

• Strong expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Python C# Java or JavaScript.

• Hands-on experience developing production AI systems using LLMs agents orchestration frameworks and evaluation methodologies.

• Experience designing systems that combine deterministic software architectures with probabilistic AI capabilities.

• Strong understanding of system design software architecture distributed computing concurrency and scalability patterns.

• Experience with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.

• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms including Azure AWS or GCP.

• Experience with Docker Kubernetes microservices and modern DevOps practices.

• Demonstrated success driving engineering transformation and organizational adoption of AI-powered development tools.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence executive-level decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Healthcare Technology Financial Technology Procurement Technology or other enterprise SaaS domains.

• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vector databases retrieval systems and citation-grounded AI workflows.

• Knowledge of applied machine learning techniques including classification anomaly detection ranking and predictive modeling.

• Experience building evaluation-driven AI systems and quality measurement frameworks.

• Familiarity with large-scale data platforms such as Snowflake data warehouses and analytical ecosystems.

• Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.

Leadership Competencies

• Builder mindset with a passion for turning ideas into scalable products.

• Strong strategic thinking balanced with hands-on technical depth.

• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly evolving environments.

• Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical problem-solving capabilities.

• Proven track record of influencing across organizations and driving business outcomes through technology.

• Customer-centric leader focused on delivering measurable impact and innovation.

Maybe you dont tick all the boxes abovebut still think youd be great for the job Go ahead apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizesand passion cant be learned.

Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role the number of hybrid office-based and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

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