Vice President, Engineering

🔥 6 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Submittable

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🌍 Social Impact

Consulting • Marketing • Social Impact

Submittable is an easy-to-use, powerful social impact platform designed for organizations of any size, including companies and foundations. It enables teams to come together to make better decisions and maximize their social impact by facilitating the collection of applications, managing review teams, awarding funds, and reporting on results—all within a single platform.

📋 Description

• Report to the CTO and run engineering day to day, including delivery, quality, reliability, cost, and people leadership • Translate the CTO's technical strategy and product roadmap into plans, priorities, and shipped software • Spend approximately one-fifth of the week on hands-on technical work, including reading and writing code, reviewing pull requests, handling incidents, and building team tools • Prototype, debug production issues, review pull requests, and ship tickets • Make AI coding agents the default for design, coding, testing, and review • Track DORA metrics, customer-facing defects, and engineering cost per release; report where AI helps or creates problems • Keep the organization lean, maintain thin management layers, and favor small teams with clear ownership • Automate test generation, CI/CD checks, code review assistance, release notes, incident triage, and alerting • Set standards for architecture, code review, testing, CI/CD, release management, and incident response • Own platform reliability, security, and cost across multi-tenant SaaS products running on AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes • Partner with infrastructure and security teams to meet uptime targets, pass SOC 2 audits, and control cloud spend • Work with the CTO and Product to add AI capabilities that help customers set up programs, review applications, and make funding decisions • Help evaluate AI features for accuracy and fairness • Recruit engineers and leaders who build with AI, coach managers, and create career paths rewarding impact and technical depth • Partner with Product, Design, Customer Experience, and Support on scope, trade-offs, escalations, and customer-facing defects

🎯 Requirements

• Must have personally built and shipped production code using AI coding tools within the past 12 months • 15+ years in software engineering • Deep experience in distributed systems, API design, data modeling, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and DevOps • 7+ years in engineering leadership, including at least 3 years leading other managers • Experience raising team output without matching headcount growth, with measurable delivery, team-size, and cost results • Experience building and running multi-tenant, cloud-based B2B SaaS products • Record of shipping complex software on predictable timelines without sacrificing quality, security, or reliability • Experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones, including offshore or nearshore partners • Ability to explain technical trade-offs to executives and non-technical colleagues in plain language • Track record of hiring, developing, retaining strong engineers, and building inclusive teams • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Must live and reside in the United States full-time • Must be eligible to work in the United States; Submittable cannot accommodate scholastic or employment visas • Applicants residing in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, or Wyoming cannot be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and life insurance with optional HSA, FSA, and DCA accounts • 401(k) plan with employer match starting day one • Equity stock options to share in our success • Flexible hours, remote work options, and generous vacation and sick leave • Paid parental leave for mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents • Professional development stipends to support your career growth • Opportunities to participate in community outreach and volunteer programs • Monthly company-sponsored happy hours and gatherings to connect and unwind