VP of Engineering

About the Role

You will lead and scale engineering teams across backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure. You will hire, coach, and retain senior engineers and engineering managers, set technical direction, and own the technical roadmap and architecture. You will ensure systems are secure, reliable, and built to scale, translate complex problems into repeatable engineering solutions, and balance velocity with long-term maintainability. You will partner closely with product and business stakeholders to define priorities, communicate technical tradeoffs, and remove internal bottlenecks through automation and improved processes.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of software engineering experience
  • At least 5 years in a multi unit leadership role such as Director or VP
  • Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams at high growth startups
  • Experience shipping complex products and building APIs and platforms
  • Knowledge of modern data architectures and infrastructure for data heavy SaaS products
  • Experience operating in remote and asynchronous cultures

Responsibilities

  • Hire coach and retain world class engineers
  • Own the technical roadmap and architecture
  • Ensure systems are secure reliable and scalable
  • Translate complex problems into repeatable engineering solutions
  • Set the tone for engineering culture processes and documentation
  • Partner with product and data to define and deliver products
  • Collaborate with cross functional leaders to align priorities
  • Identify bottlenecks and automate workflows to improve performance

Benefits

  • Remote first with an optional office in New York City
  • 100% medical coverage for employee
  • Medical dental and vision coverage with significant dependent coverage
  • Flexible unlimited paid time off
  • Fourteen weeks fully paid parental leave
  • Hardware stipend
  • Learning and growth stipend

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