VP of Engineering

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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51 - 200 employees

✈️ Travel

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Going is a travel company that helps users find significantly discounted flights to both domestic and international destinations. By keeping track of airfare prices, Going notifies its members of price drops and offers up to 90% off on flights. The company operates through a website and mobile apps, providing flight alerts and booking information to aid in securing the best travel deals. Members receive notifications for great travel deals, making travel affordable by leveraging its extensive network of airlines and destinations. Going aims to make air travel cheaper and more accessible to everyone, saving users time and money on their travel plans.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a lean, senior engineering team. • Create a strong engineering culture, build growth paths, mentor engineers into leaders, and make performance decisions when coaching does not work. • Hire for judgment and craft, including evaluating candidates' use of AI. • Run a remote, written, asynchronous culture with clear ownership. • Identify where coding agents and LLM tooling improve product, design, and engineering work. • Measure AI-tool ROI through cycle time, defect rates, and cost; establish quality and security guardrails. • Coach product, design, and engineering teams on effective agent adoption and retire ineffective workflows. • Improve delivery speed through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, feature flags, and experimentation. • Set technical strategy and architecture for the codebase and data pipeline. • Own data-pipeline accuracy, freshness, and cost as the company scales. • Pay down technical debt where it creates business value. • Partner with Product and Data to build AI-powered member experiences before and after booking. • Provide technical leadership while remaining technically credible. • Partner with the Leadership Team, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Data. • Tie engineering roadmap decisions to membership growth. • Report to the CEO.

🎯 Requirements

• You're legally authorized to work in the United States and able to work US hours. • 10+ years in software, including 5+ leading engineering teams of 8–25 at a consumer tech company, ideally startup or scale-up. • Daily use of coding agents and LLM tools; knowledge of their benefits, limitations, and output verification. • Experience leading AI-tool adoption that produced measurable gains without mandates or eroding quality. • Product-thinking focused on members and customer value. • Ability to ship, learn, iterate, and make reversible decisions quickly. • Experience building reliable, high-traffic consumer systems, including iOS and Android apps, and working with large and complex datasets. • Experience hiring, giving direct feedback, and developing engineers into leaders. • Strong written communication and ability to run an async remote team and explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers. • Security- and privacy-minded approach to member data and payment flows. • Experience in flights or travel, airfare data, GDSs, NDC, metasearch, OTAs, or airline retailing preferred. • Experience building agentic or LLM-powered consumer-product features preferred. • Experience with pricing, alerting, or real-time data pipelines preferred. • Subscription or membership business experience preferred. • Experience leading an engineering organization through a major tooling or process change preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • 100% remote work environment • Annual team retreats • Open vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance • 401(k) with a 5% match • $750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend • Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave • Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker • Continuing education & development reimbursement

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