Job Details

If you are a visionary technology leader passionate about modern engineering practices, empowering teams, and delivering impactful solutions, we encourage you to apply.

Join a company that truly impacts others!

Hope Media Group is a multi-brand ministry. Every story we share, every event we host, and every song we play is done to engage people to love Jesus, serve others, and spread Hope. Hope Media Group the home of KSBJ, WayFM, Vida Unida and NGEN radio.

We invite you to apply for our Director, Software Engineering position in Houston, TX, and be a part of our growing ministry to Love Jesus, Serve Others, and Spread Hope. Our team describes our environment as fun, encouraging, collaborative, engaging, caring, family-oriented, and friendly. We would love for you to join us and be part of what God is doing in our ministry! This is an onsite position.

Job Summary

Hope Media Group is seeking an innovative and visionary Director of Software Engineering to lead our engineering team and shape the future of our digital platforms. This is a senior leadership role responsible for modernizing our technology architecture, transforming legacy systems, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. The ideal candidate will emphasize delivering user-centric solutions, align engineering practices with organizational goals, and foster a strong partnership with product and design teams. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to drive the development of scalable and impactful products using modern Agile delivery practices (Scrum/Kanban).

Essential Functions

Leadership:

• Leadership and Collaboration: Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to both engineers and engineering leaders, fostering their growth in technical, professional, and leadership skills.

• Define and implement a modern technology strategy, emphasizing scalable, maintainable, and secure systems while transforming legacy applications.
• Partner with product leaders to align technical efforts with organizational goals, ensuring that engineering solutions meet user and business needs.
• Champion Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban), optimizing for flow, iterative delivery, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Establish and enforce best practices in software development, architecture, and deployment, including CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to ensure alignment between technology solutions and organizational priorities.
• Lead the modernization of existing applications and systems to align with modern principles such as The Twelve-Factor App, Hexagonal Architecture, and Clean Architecture.
• Monitor emerging trends, technologies, and frameworks to ensure Hope Media Group remains innovative and competitive.

• Committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Be spiritually grounded and Biblically literate.
• Comfortable praying for co-workers in team meetings, leading spoken prayer, and participating in ministry prayer meetings and Bible studies.
• Lives by the Christian principles defined by the Ministry Statement of Faith.
• Participates in on-air fundraisers and prays for donors as needed.
• Has a passion for leveraging the platform of radio for evangelism and discipleship.
• Exhibits a strong moral character.
• Is an active member of a Bible believing local church.

• Other duties as requested.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

• Heart for Christian Ministry
• Strong moral character
• Has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Spiritually grounded and working knowledge of scripture
• Must be an active member of a Bible believing local church
• Deep expertise in modern architectural patterns, including cloud-native development, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of transforming legacy systems into scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Proven ability to implement Agile delivery practices (Scrum, Kanban) and optimize team workflows.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to build user-centric products.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders.
• A product-first mindset focused on delivering solutions that meet user and business needs.
• Passion for modernizing technology while preserving business continuity.
• Commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Preferred-not required:
• Experience in the media or nonprofit sectors.
• Familiarity with Hope Media Group's mission and audience.
• Proficiency in leading transformations using modern frameworks like The Twelve-Factor App, Hexagonal Architecture, and Clean Architecture.

• Immediate supervision of a small group of employees. Recommends candidates for hiring, termination; prepares and conducts performance appraisals and salary reviews and applies company policies.

• Occasional travel

• Occasional for conferences or retreats.

• Physical Activity may include Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers including pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand as in handling. Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Savings Accounts
• Short Term Disability/Long Term Disability
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Paid Time Off
• Service Days
• Paid Holidays
• 403B Retirement
• Group Life Insurance
• Legal Shield/Identity Theft Protection