VP, Technology

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $228k - $285k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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OnTrac

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1986

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

Logistics • eCommerce • Transport

OnTrac is a regional alternative parcel carrier and logistics provider focused on e-commerce and residential delivery. It operates a coast-to-coast network (promoting itself as the largest alternative carrier network), offering ground services, an economy “Ground Essentials” product, and a new Express 2–3 day coast-to-coast service launching in 2026. OnTrac also provides custom logistics and business-to-business critical deliveries (including healthcare/pharma and specialized aircraft-on-ground repair services), partners with e-commerce platforms and retailers, and runs programs for independent drivers and regional service providers. The company emphasizes faster, lower-cost alternatives to legacy carriers and 7-day/week delivery programs to improve conversion and repeat purchases for merchants.

📋 Description

• Partner with the CTO to execute the modernization roadmap and migrate legacy on-premises and multi-cloud systems to GCP • Establish target-state architecture across shared platforms, reusable core services, and domain applications • Lead event-driven and microservices architecture using domain-driven design, canonical event models, status taxonomies, and versioned API and event contracts • Govern technical decisions through ADRs, reference architectures, standards, and participation in design and code reviews • Design for peak-volume scalability, resilience, observability, distributed tracing, fault isolation, and graceful degradation • Establish accountability for production health, incident response, root-cause analysis, and peak-season readiness • Build modern delivery practices using automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, trunk-based development, progressive delivery, and consistent environments • Embed shift-left quality practices and use DORA and flow metrics for continuous improvement • Establish AI-assisted, spec-driven development across the software development lifecycle with guardrails for AI-generated code • Sponsor the AI center of excellence and agent platform, including Model Context Protocol servers and reusable agents • Build stable, product-led teams across platform, core, and domain services • Hire and develop leaders, architects, and engineers across US and global teams; allocate capacity across run, improve, modernize, and explore work • Manage engineering budgets, resource plans, cloud and AI costs, and vendor relationships • Evaluate investments based on business value, total cost of ownership, risk, and feasibility • Hold partners accountable for delivery, quality, cost, and service commitments • Deliver a business-aligned modernization roadmap, improve DORA metrics, and maintain reliable peak-season performance

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering and technology leadership experience, including leading multiple engineering teams and leaders in a complex, high-volume enterprise • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Experience in parcel, last-mile delivery, transportation, logistics, e-commerce, or a comparable high-volume industry with seasonal demand peaks • Strong hands-on architecture background designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems • Expertise in event-driven and microservices architecture, including domain-driven design, Kafka or Pub/Sub, event sourcing, CQRS, sagas, API management, and monolith decomposition • Proven experience leading AI-driven and spec-driven software development, including AI coding agents, contract-first APIs and events, quality guardrails, and impact measurement • Deep expertise in CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, release management, DevOps, and SRE practices • Strong knowledge of generative AI, RAG, AI agents, Model Context Protocol, and model evaluation • Experience modernizing legacy environments and migrating on-premises systems to cloud-native platforms, ideally GCP • Proven ability to develop leaders, strengthen engineering performance, and lead organizational change • Familiarity with technology supporting sortation, scanning, tracking, routing, transportation operations, and customer visibility preferred • Experience with GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Apigee preferred • Experience building an AI center of excellence, internal developer platform, or platform engineering function preferred • Responsibility to understand and adhere to OnTrac’s Acceptable Use policy and security guidelines

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Life and short- and long-term disability coverage • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match • Flex vacation in states other than CA, CO, IL, MA, MT, and NE, with accruals up to 96 hours for first year of employment with tenure-based increases up to 160 hours • Two (2) floating holidays per year • Paid sick leave • Six (6) paid company holidays • Two (2) weeks paid pregnancy disability leave • Four (4) weeks paid parental bonding leave • Additional wellness and employee assistance programs • Bonus, commission, or other incentive compensation in accordance with the applicable plan, up to a 35% Bonus Target

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