Vice President, Software Development

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $132.1k - $182.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🖥 Software Engineer

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Young Life

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1941

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

🤲 Charity

Consulting • Travel • Charity

Young Life is a global Christian mission organization dedicated to introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them to grow in their faith. The organization focuses on building personal relationships with young people and providing fun, adventurous, life-changing experiences. Its mission involves working in communities alongside like-minded adults, including volunteer leaders and staff, to engage with and support youth. Young Life also emphasizes the importance of authentic friendships and creating spaces where young people feel loved and accepted, regardless of their background.

📋 Description

• Build and lead Product and Application Engineering alongside Platform Engineering • Recruit proven managers and senior technical leaders against the funded plan • Establish distributed team ownership, delegated authority, performance expectations, succession, and coaching • Build a culture of ownership and learning; ensure teams raise risks early, challenge designs constructively, share knowledge, and own production outcomes • Set engineering architecture and modernization direction across applications, integrations, vendor platforms, and assigned infrastructure • Define boundaries, identity, interfaces, and data contracts with accountable partners • Stabilize critical services while modernizing incrementally, sequencing migrations with reconciliation, rollback, recovery, and retirement criteria • Choose build, buy, reuse, or partner based on mission value, risk, and lifecycle cost • Partner with peers on product functions and joint discovery; shape useful increments and agree scope, capacity, completion evidence, and responses to delivery risk • Build for global, volunteer-led ministry, including accessibility, localization, mobile use, limited connectivity, and regional privacy and operating requirements • Establish secure engineering practices and dependable delivery, including design and code review, automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, dependency and secrets management, and launch readiness • Ensure assigned infrastructure and services have owners, observability, on-call coverage, incident response with Security and Service Delivery, and tested recovery • Adopt approved AI-assisted and agentic workflows where verified outcomes justify them, with least-privilege access, protected data, reviewable changes, automated evaluation, and human approval • Own the engineering budget and allocate approved funding and capacity among staffing, suppliers, infrastructure, operations, delivery, modernization, and technical debt • Report delivery evidence, service health, costs, dependencies, and risks through GMET’s review cadence • Resolve engineering decisions through accountable leaders and bring executive decisions with options, a recommendation, and the consequence of delay • Manage professional teams composed of individual contributors and/or supervisors • Set ownership, priorities, and performance expectations; delegate real authority • Participate in interviewing and selection, provide training and mentorship, offer career development guidance, and engage in performance management • Provide timely coaching and feedback, develop staff, and provide challenging opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, preferably in a job related major field of study • Minimum fifteen (15) years of relevant professional experience, including leading and managing complex initiatives or programs with outcome focused deliverables • Equivalent combination of education and experience accepted • Minimum eight (8) years of managerial experience • Typically 15 or more years in software engineering and leadership, including at least seven years leading teams and experience leading managers and senior technical leaders; equivalent demonstrated scope and impact considered • Record of building a multi-team engineering organization from uneven starting conditions while sustaining critical delivery, with evidence of strong hiring, manager development, delegated ownership, and performance improvement • Deep production software expertise in system boundaries, APIs, cloud infrastructure, identity, data integrity, distributed failures, security, testing, deployment, recovery, and cost • Experience leading incremental modernization of tightly coupled or vendor-centered systems while sustaining critical services • Experience building product engineering teams with Product and UX and delivering useful applications through them • Demonstrated stewardship of reliability, security implementation, technical debt, budgets, and suppliers • Strong executive communication and cross-cultural change leadership • Practical judgment applying AI-assisted and agentic engineering with controls and verified outcomes • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience • Personal commitment to Young Life’s Christian mission and required staff statements and policies • Preferred experience with global or distributed engineering; low-connectivity applications; Salesforce modernization; identity and integration platforms; and systems handling sensitive financial or personal data

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