Vice President of Engineering
Project A
Seniority
Director
Model
In-Office
Sector
Salary
Undisclosed
Contract
Full-Time
Lead and scale the engineering organization at a next-generation supply chain platform, driving the evolution of platform architecture and ensuring technology strategy aligns with business goals and customer outcomes. The company is redefining how one of the world's largest industries sources, distributes, and finances materials through agentic AI and workflow automation.
What you'll do
- Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization across multiple teams and domains
- Develop engineering leaders and managers, fostering accountability, ownership, and technical excellence
- Build a strong, inclusive engineering culture grounded in psychological safety and high standards
- Partner closely with Business and Product leadership on roadmap planning, prioritization, and trade-offs
- Ensure continuous improvement, stability, and performance of the existing marketplace platform
- Lead the architectural evolution toward scalable, cloud-native, microservice-based systems
- Define and enforce principles for modern, maintainable, and scalable SaaS and marketplace architecture
- Own system reliability, performance, security, and uptime across all environments
What you'll need
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including senior leadership roles (Director, Head of Engineering, VP) in SaaS, marketplace, or platform businesses
- Proven experience leading teams through platform scaling, architectural transformation, or modernization initiatives
- Strong hands-on background in software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and data-driven platforms
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Solid knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and observability
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business impact
- A genuine passion for building teams, scaling systems, and delivering technology that creates meaningful customer value
Nice to have
- Experience operating in AI-enabled or AI-first product environments
What they offer
- Entrepreneurial freedom to take a pre-validated business model to the next level
- Join an experienced founding team of serial and 2nd-time founders
- Attractive base and bonus compensation program
- Collaborate with top-tier investors, angels, and leading market experts
