DirectorofSoftwareEngineering

Director of Software Engineering | Nox Metals | Detroit, MI American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. Nox Metals is the supply chain behind it. Nox Metals is a technology company in Detroit supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible. We need a Director of Software Engineering to lead the team building the systems that run the company. Our software is not a side project, it is the product. NOX NEST runs the factory floor, WAYNE runs nesting and quoting, Gondor runs the customer experience, MORIA runs inventory and demand intelligence. Every shipment we send goes out because of code we wrote. This role owns the engineering org, the roadmap, and the team that builds it. Nox Metals is an employer with real opportunity for long term career growth, this is a place to build a career, not just hold a job. You will: - Lead, hire, and grow the engineering team across NOX NEST, WAYNE, Gondor, and MORIA - Own the engineering roadmap end to end, set priorities, ship on time - Stay hands on, write code, review PRs, pair with engineers on the hardest problems - Work directly with the founder to translate company strategy into engineering execution - Walk the floor every week and make sure the team is building what the business actually needs - Set the bar for code quality, system design, deploy hygiene, on call, and production reliability - Run the hiring loop, close candidates, and onboard new engineers fast - Drive real ML and AI features into production, cut time models, demand intelligence, AI parsing of sales orders, agentic workflows across the company - Own production systems, incident response, postmortems, and the culture of fix forward - Make the team faster every quarter, better tools, better workflows, better leverage on