Job Title: Director of Software Development
Reporting to: CEO
Location: Stamford, CT
Schedule: Full‐time
Salary: Competitive, Bonus, Stock Options
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, 401(k) matching

Position Summary

We are seeking a senior engineering leader who will help guide the next phase of our software platform while contributing directly to development. This is a great opportunity to play a central role in shaping product direction, coordinating releases, and supporting new initiatives across content delivery, networking, and transport technologies.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys a blend of hands‐on engineering, technical leadership, and strategic planning. The right candidate will bring a positive, collaborative approach and help foster a strong engineering culture for a growing team. This role offers a clear and rapid path toward career advancement.

Primary Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Product Direction

• Work with management to create and maintain forward‐looking engineering roadmaps helping shape long-term product and technology direction
• Establish subject matter expertise in one or more of the company’s core focus areas
• Coordinate release planning, timelines, and cross‐team communication
• Identify opportunities for platform enhancements and new product capabilities

Hands‐On Engineering

• Contribute directly to the codebase using C/C++, Python, and related technologies
• Drive the design and development of next‐generation capabilities for our managed content delivery platform, our line of hardware appliances, and vertically integrated solution
• Enhance internal development infrastructure, including build systems, version control workflows, and release tooling
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated builds, testing, and packaging across Linux and Windows

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and support developers as the engineering team expands, setting technical standards and raising the bar for execution
• Collaborate with Product Management, QA and Support to ensure high-quality, timely releases
• Foster a collaborative, positive, and solutions‐oriented engineering culture focused on ownership and accountability

Customer & Market Engagement

• Learn and understand customer use cases across satellite, cellular, broadcast and defense markets and translate them into actionable engineering plans and product improvements
• Participate in technical sales discussions, customer meetings, and solution design sessions as a senior technical voice
• Attend selected industry events and trade shows and interface with prospective customers

Qualifications

Required

• Strong expertise in C/C++, object‐oriented design, and modern development tools
• Experience with wireless communication methodologies and standards including satellite and cellular
• Possess an understanding of core networking protocols (HTTP, TCP, UDP)
• Experience with scripting languages (bash, Python, etc)
• Experience leading and architecting software projects while remaining hands-on
• Experience with both Linux and Windows development environments
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team‐first mindset

Preferred

• Interest in growing into a VP Engineering or CTO role
• Experience with AI assisted software development
• Background in forward error correction
• Experience with IP multicast, satellite networking, or wireless communication standards
• Knowledge of compression, encryption, and secure content delivery
• Experience with virtualization, DevOps, CI/CD, or build automation
• Prior customer‐facing or technical sales experience
• Ability to manage customer requirements with development priorities

KenCast is a US‐based tech firm focused on making sure data—whether moving from movie studios to theaters, from defense command centers to deployed forces, or from major news organizations to broadcast affiliates—arrives co