VP of Software Engineering – Platform

🕒 June 25

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Firstup

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201 - 500 employees

🏢 Enterprise

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • HR Tech • SaaS

Firstup is a comprehensive employee experience platform designed to deliver highly personalized communication at scale. It offers an intelligent communication platform that connects with any environment, while ensuring data security and infrastructure integrity. Firstup's solutions aim to engage employees through various channels including email, mobile apps, and intranet, making every interaction meaningful across the employee journey. The platform integrates seamlessly with tools like Microsoft 365 and ServiceNow to enhance service management and workforce productivity.

📋 Description

• Define and Execute Platform Strategy • Build Enterprise-Grade Application Platforms • Lead the Agentic AI Platform • Transform Software Development with AI • Own Enterprise Integrations • Lead Data Platform, Reporting & Analytics • Build and Lead the Organization

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience • 5+ years leading engineering organizations at senior director, VP, or equivalent levels • Proven ability to translate business and product strategy into technical strategy • Experience leading multiple teams, managers, senior technical leaders, and complex cross-functional initiatives • Experience building shared platform services, internal developer tooling, integration platforms, data platforms, and AI platform capabilities • Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Node, Python, PostgreSQL, Redshift, OpenAI SDK, MCP, and related technologies • Ability to engage deeply in architecture reviews, technical tradeoffs, implementation approaches, and operational risk decisions • Ability to identify repeated engineering needs and convert them into reusable, scalable, well-adopted platform capabilities • Strong product mindset for internal platforms • Pragmatic, collaborative leader who can operate in ambiguity and create alignment • Strong communicator across engineers, executives, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders • Passion for building high-performance teams, developing leaders, and creating a durable engineering culture • Bias toward outcomes, leverage, simplicity, customer impact, and continuous improvement

🏖️ Benefits

• excellent PTO program • great health benefits • casual and friendly environment • remote work • leadership team that believes in your growth