We are seeking a dynamic, hands-on VP of Engineering who will lead our product engineering organization from vision and architecture through delivery and operations.
Requirements
- Define the technical roadmap and architecture of our product(s).
- Make critical architecture and systems design decisions, ensure that systems are scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
- Stay current with technology trends/innovations and evaluate/adopt where beneficial.
- Ensure security and data privacy are embedded into our systems architecture and development practices
- Contribute to major technical components, algorithm design, post mortems etc, occasionally contribute code and review code
- Be involved in solution design for high-complexity or high-risk modules to maintain technical quality and help unblock teams.
- Lead or participate in technical deep-dives, code reviews, architecture reviews, especially for cross-team initiatives or for when the design has broad implications.
- Build, grow, and mentor engineering managers, leads, and senior engineers. Ensure strong leadership across your team.
- Recruit and retain top engineering talent, help define hiring strategy, technical interviewing, and onboarding.
- Foster a culture of learning, code quality, ownership, psychological safety, and accountability.
- Lead adoption of AI-driven tools to drive productivity and ensure we’re on the forefront of modern engineering and product building workflows.
- Oversee execution: ensure high cadence, predictable delivery, managing technical debt, operational excellence.
- Set and monitor engineering KPIs and metrics (velocity, quality, uptime, etc.). Use data to drive improvements.
- Maintain reliability, monitoring, logging, incident management, and processes for disaster recovery.
- Work with Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Support to balance technical debt vs feature delivery, prioritize properly.
- Represent engineering to the executive team, communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and timelines in terms non-tech stakeholders understand.
- Collaborate on budget, resource allocation, technology investment decisions.
- Evangelize engineering excellence both internally and externally through thought leadership, conference speaking, and showcasing our architectural decisions or technical wins.
- Establish best practices for coding, testing, deployment, security, and operations.
- Continuously evaluate and evolve the engineering org structure to match the company’s growth, ensuring clarity of ownership, effective cross-functional collaboration, and sustainable decision-making velocity.
Benefits
- Annual wellbeing allowance
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees
- Employer contribution towards retirement
- Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories
- Employee stock option program
