VP of Software Engineering
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VP, Engineering leading the engineering strategy and hands-on technical execution in a remote environment. Shaping the technical direction and building a high-performing team for product launches.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- 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 planning, and resource allocation.
- Strengthen DevOps, observability, continuous integration/delivery pipelines, and on-call reliability.
- Ensure security, compliance, data protection, and architectural governance
- 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
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.
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