VP of Engineering | Go / Rust / Vue / TypeScript | Scale-up Exp

VP of Engineering (Remote - US/Canada)

Reporting directly to the CTO, you will own the end-to-end product development roadmap and lead a ~15-person engineering team (with plans to double headcount by year’s end).

Responsibilities

• Strategic & architectural leadership: Own the engineering roadmap with the CTO and Product; make architecture decisions balancing speed, scalability, and quality.
• Technical decision-making: Evaluate build-vs-buy choices, manage technical debt, and drive realistic cross-functional planning with clear trade-offs.
• People leadership & scaling: Mentor team leads (platform, parsing, GenAI, front-end), scale the org through hiring and retention, and establish development processes and operational cadence.
• Hands-on engineering: About 40% IC—debug, prototype, review code, and solve complex cross-team problems.
• Performance & reliability: Drive end-to-end web performance analysis/optimization and partner with Infrastructure on deployments, production reliability, and performance.
• Community & influence: Engage with open-source communities and upstream changes where relevant.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Act as the connector between technical teams and translate customer pain into engineering priorities (with Customer Success/Sales).

Requirements

• 8+ years professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years engineering leadership experience; track record scaling teams of 15+ engineers across multiple functions
• Ability to own product roadmaps closely with CTO/executive leadership
• Deep hands-on expertise in Go, Rust, and/or Vue/TypeScript
• Strong background in developer tooling and/or DevOps infrastructure (or hardware-adjacent domains)
• Must be able to integrate AI/ML capabilities into existing product workflows
• Startup or scale-up experience (Series A/B strongly preferred)
• Not management-only: comfort with substantial hands-on contribution (~40%)

Nice to Have

• Hardware/electronics/CAD-adjacent domain experience
• Experience taking AI-powered features from prototype to production
• Open-source contributions in devtools or enginee