Director, Platform & Performance Engineering

As the most trusted global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management (CLM) software, Agiloft helps organizations manage the end-to-end process of proposing, negotiating, signing, and leveraging contracts using our flexible Data-first Agreement Platform (DAP). With contract data as the foundation, customers quickly and collaboratively reach agreement and leverage contract visibility to thrive with competitive advantage. Employing powerful, pragmatic artificial intelligence as a legal force multiplier, and robust integration capabilities as a data liberator, organizations around the world trust Agiloft’s certified implementers to deliver connected, intelligent, and autonomous solutions across the entire contract lifecycle.

Top analysts like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC agree, all showing Agiloft as a leader in the CLM space. Our no code platform is easily managed and administered by business users, which is why Agiloft is the contract you keep: nearly a full 100% of new customers are satisfied with their initial implementations, and some 97% of customers renew every year. Ours is a growing, vibrant, successful company that is at the forefront of a market that is becoming a must-have for all organizations.

We believe that the way to build the strongest, most vibrant place to work is to bring in individuals from all walks of life, and to support them in bringing their authentic selves to their day, every day. Our working philosophy is that “EX = CX”: when employee experience is excellent, so is customer experience. We support multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), and offer a working environment that supports healthy work/life balance, including floating holidays and a quarterly, no-questions-asked wellness day.

Position Overview

The Director of Platform & Performance Engineering is a hands-on technical leader responsible for accelerating the scalability, performance, and operational resilience of our backend SaaS platform services. As a leader in the AI-driven CLM space, we are rapidly expanding product capabilities and customer scale — and this role ensures our backend platform not only keeps pace but enables that growth.

Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, this leader will build and lead a strong, accountable backend engineering team focused on improving and evolving the technical foundation and performance of our core platform and data services.

This role works closely with application engineering, Cloud Operations, and Product leadership to ensure platform investments directly accelerate product velocity, customer value, and innovation.

This is a deeply technical player–coach role requiring strong hands-on expertise in backend services, distributed architectures, database performance engineering, and production-scale troubleshooting.

• 12+ years of backend engineering experience, including senior technical leadership roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Java (JEE, Spring, or comparable enterprise frameworks).
• Strong proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, or services development.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scalable SaaS architectures
• Experience designing and implementing load tests.
• Experience using performance, observability, and scalability testing tools (Grafana, Jmeter, query EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong expertise in performance optimization of relational database access patterns, including MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience evolving large-scale applications toward modular or microservices-based architectures.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience using modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve productivity and code quality.
• Ability to apply AI tools pragmatically while maintaining architectural integrity and engineering standards.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, and product organizations.

Agiloft offers a comprehensive benefits package for US employees including but not limited to the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short term and long-term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position.
• Paid parental leave
• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace is our priority. We are committed to an environment of acceptance where you are free to bring your full self to work. All employment decisions at Agiloft are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national or social ethnic origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, parental status, marital status, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. If you have a need that requires accommodation during the recruiting process, please let us know by contacting Director, Talent Acquisition, Brad Toothman at brad.toothman@agiloft.com.

Applicants from underrepresented groups such as minorities, veterans, or individuals with disabilities encouraged to apply.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted. There will be no application deadline for this opportunity.