We are looking for a VP of Engineering to lead the technical vision, execution, and growth of our engineering organization. This role is responsible for building a high-performing engineering culture, delivering products on schedule, maintaining technical excellence, and aligning engineering with business goals.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with leadership, hiring, product thinking, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering Leadership
- Define and execute the engineering strategy.
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization.
- Mentor engineering managers and senior engineers.
- Establish engineering culture, values, and best practices.
- Drive accountability and ownership across teams.
Product Delivery:
- Translate business objectives into engineering roadmaps.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.
- Prioritize engineering initiatives with founders and product teams.
- Remove execution bottlenecks.
Technical Excellence:
- Define system architecture and engineering standards.
- Ensure scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Lead technical decision-making.
- Review architecture for critical systems.
- Manage technical debt effectively.
Hiring & Team Building:
- Hire senior engineers and engineering managers.
- Build onboarding and career development programs.
- Conduct performance reviews.
- Create succession plans for leadership roles.
Operations:
- Define engineering KPIs and dashboards.
- Improve development processes and release cycles.
- Manage engineering budgets and tooling.
- Coordinate across Product, Design, AI, Sales, and Operations.
Requirements:
Must Have:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- Experience building products from concept to production.
- Strong system design and cloud architecture knowledge.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills.
- Strong hiring and mentoring experience.
Preferred:
- Startup experience (Seed to Series A/B).
- Experience scaling engineering teams.
- AI/ML product development experience.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience building SaaS platforms.
Success Metrics (First 12 Months):
- Build a robust engineering organization.
- Improve engineering velocity and delivery predictability.
- Hire key engineering talent.
- Maintain high system reliability and uptime.
- Deliver strategic product roadmap on schedule.
- Improve engineering quality through testing and automation.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Experience managing globally distributed teams.
- Open-source contributions or technical leadership in the community.
Reporting Structure:
Reports to:
CEO / Founder
Direct Reports:
- Engineering Managers
- Tech Leads
- Senior Engineers
- DevOps Lead
- QA Lead