Engineering VP / Director

Strategic Leadership & Operational Excellence

• Engineering Alignment & Delivery: Improve coordination across engineering teams and functions, clarify ownership and decision-making, and help teams deliver product priorities with fewer bottlenecks.
• Organizational Design & Scale: Continuously refine engineering workflows, team structures, and operating rhythms to support business growth, team autonomy, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Talent & Leadership Development: Mentor, manage, and scale engineering managers and senior leaders; establish high standards for engineering craftsmanship, career growth, and technical accountability.

Technical Direction & Architecture

• Technical Direction: Guide architecture and engineering decisions across complex product environments, ensuring teams balance scalability, security, performance, and user needs.
• Engineering Standards & Reliability: Champion industry-leading engineering practices across software design, code health, automated testing, continuous deployment, and system observability.
• System Resilience: Ensure systems maintain high availability, security posture, and resilience in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Product Partnership & Execution

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Work hand-in-hand with Product Management, Design, Operations, and Security leaders to translate company strategy into clear, executable technical roadmaps.
• Execution & Velocity: Establish clear milestones, identify and resolve execution risks, and implement metrics to maintain predictable, high-cadence product releases.

• Executive Leadership Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading multi-tiered engineering teams (50+ engineers) at the Director or VP level within high-scale product companies.
• Technical Breadth: A strong background leading engineering in large-scale product environments, with the ability to engage with diverse technical disciplines, assess architectural trade-offs, and guide experienced engineering leaders.
• Delivery Track Record: Demonstrated success driving complex, multi-team engineering programs to launch in fast-evolving, high-growth tech environments.
• Domain Adaptability: Experience in high-availability, low-latency, or mission-critical domains (such as FinTech, SaaS, payments, consumer tech, or Web3).
• Communication & Influence: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build consensus across business, product, and deeply technical teams.