VP of Engineering

Role overview

A senior engineering leader is needed to set technical direction and build an effective engineering organization as the business scales. Reporting to the COO, the VP of Engineering leads engineering managers, stays involved in architecture and critical technical work, and partners with product, AI, analytics, and executive leaders to turn priorities into reliable, secure software.

Responsibilities

- Lead and support engineering managers, building a cohesive organization and recruiting, developing, and retaining talent. - Own engineering vision, architecture, and technology strategy, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and the needs of the business. - Establish practical standards for CI/CD, testing, and production releases; remove delivery bottlenecks and step in when critical work needs direct attention. - Work with AI and analytics teams to bring optimization and research work into dependable production systems. - Collaborate with product leaders on roadmaps and tradeoffs, and clarify ownership across teams. - Represent engineering to executives and external stakeholders, communicate progress and risks, and manage career paths, headcount, vendors, cloud costs, and enterprise readiness.

Requirements

- At least 10 years of engineering experience, including 3 or more years managing managers. - A record of designing and building production systems and leading engineering teams through a scaling phase. - Strong architecture and technical judgment, with the ability to stay hands-on when needed. - Ability to make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity, deciding when to prioritize speed and when to invest for long-term needs. - Strong communication and collaboration skills for building consensus across engineering, product, AI, analytics, and executive groups. - Experience setting delivery practices and ensuring software meets security, privacy, reliability, and compliance expectations.

Nice to have

Experience with logistics, transportation, or other complex operational systems is valued. Familiarity with a stack spanning AWS, Python or Java, JavaScript or TypeScript, data platforms, infrastructure as code, and automated delivery practices is also useful.

Benefits and work setup

The listed base salary range is $240,000–$280,000 USD, with equity. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement matching; unlimited paid time off and 11 holidays; paid parental leave; disability and life insurance; fitness reimbursement; and commuter benefits.