VP of Software Engineering
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Job description
As the senior-most engineering leader, you will shape the technical vision, build a high-performing engineering organization, and drive execution across product development, infrastructure, and engineering operations. You will partner closely with Product, Design, and Business leaders to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.
This role is ideal for a builder who has successfully led teams through 0 * 1 product development, enjoys solving hard problems, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural stability. What You'll Do (Technical Leadership & Strategy):
- Help define and execute the engineering strategy and technical roadmap aligned to company objectives.
- Lead system architecture decisions to ensure scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership-diving into code, architecture, infrastructure, and complex problem-solving when needed.
- Ensure engineering best practices, including code quality, testing standards, deployment processes, and security guidelines.
What You'll Do (Product Execution & Operational Excellence)
- Lead engineering execution from ideation through launch, overseeing full product lifecycles in a 0*1 environment.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to define requirements, scope features, and build predictable roadmaps.
- Drive delivery excellence-ensuring high velocity, clear accountability, and data-driven prioritization.
- Oversee engineering processes, sprint execution, and resource allocation.
- Strengthen DevOps, observability, continuous integration/delivery pipelines, and on-call reliability.
- Ensure security, compliance, data protection, and architectural governance
What You'll Do (Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration)
- Build, scale, and mentor a high-impact engineering organization (internal, contract, nearshore, or hybrid).
- Establish a culture of ownership, innovation, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
- Recruit top engineering talent and develop career paths, performance standards, and scalable organizational structures.
- Partner with Product, Design, Operations, and Executive teams to align engineering initiatives with business priorities.
- Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and impacts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Champion cross-functional collaboration, transparency, and high-quality execution across teams, This role supports a global, cross-functional business and operates primarily in a Remote-First environment. However, flexibility outside of standard business hours and occasional local or international travel may be necessary for global operations support, company meetings, training, offsites, and collaborative projects.
This position primarily involves computer-based work, requiring extended periods at a computer, participation in virtual meetings, and use of standard office technology. We will consider reasonable accommodations to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of the role.
Maintaining a reliable internet connection and a professional work environment is expected. The ability to protect confidential company, employee, customer, and business information while working outside of a company office is also required.
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Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with deep technical expertise in modern technologies, cloud-native approaches, and extensible architecture.
- 5+ years leading engineering teams, including experience as a Director, Head of Engineering, or VP.
- Proven record of building and launching 0*1 products in a startup or fast-growth environment.
- Strong ability to switch between strategic planning and tactical execution.
- Demonstrated expertise in system design, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS).
- Experience setting engineering culture, standards, and operational excellence.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
How You Can Stand Out ('Preferred' Qualifications):
- Experience in SaaS, AI/ML, B2B, or enterprise products (tailor to your product).
- Ability to manage hybrid engineering teams (contract/agency + in-house).
- Experience with security, compliance, or highly regulated environments if relevant to your product.
- Prior experience scaling engineering teams from early-stage to growth-stage.
Benefits & conditions
$225,000 - $325,000 a year For U.S.-based hires, the overall base salary framework for this role currently spans $225,000 to 325,000. The applicable base salary range for any individual hire depends on the geographic labor market associated with the employee's primary work location along with other factors such as relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
Geographic labor markets are divided into 'tiers' based upon a number of factors, including cost of living. Below, you'll find a few example cities representative of each tiers:
- U.S. Geo Tier 1 (i.e. San Francisco, New York City, Boston)
- U.S. Geo Tier 2 (i.e. Austin, Denver, Phoenix)
- U.S. Geo Tier 3 (i.e. Kansas City, Jacksonville, Indianapolis)
We encourage you to speak to your recruiter to learn more about our compensation philosophy as well as discuss our benefits, total rewards, and opportunities for growth.
What We Offer (Perks & Benefits)
- Flexible vacation
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Traditional/Roth retirement savings options
- Company-paid disability and life insurance
- Flexible Spending Account & Limited FSA
- Family-friendly parental leave, volunteer and voting time off
- On-demand wellness platform access for you and 5 friends and family
- PerkSpot discount program for 900+ merchants nationwide