VP of Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Oversee four engineering value streams — Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Account Acquisition — ensuring effective delivery, velocity, and technical excellence.

• Manage and nurture engineering managers, tech leads, and a Principal Engineer.

• Offer hands-on technical leadership in solution design, architectural reviews, production incident management, and intricate troubleshooting.

• Collaborate with the VP of Platform Engineering on AI coding integration, release coordination, architectural standards, and DevOps practices.

• Propel quarterly engineering OKRs aimed at enhancing AI productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.

• Engage in senior leadership discussions with the COO, VP of Platform Engineering, and product leadership.

• Create and enforce the engineering quality framework across all eight value streams.

• Manage a multi-platform automation framework encompassing Angular, Swift, and Kotlin.

• Establish and uphold quality gates, release criteria, automated coverage thresholds, defect standards, and QE sign-offs.

• Lead and cultivate a QA team consisting of eight manual QA engineers and two dedicated automation QA engineers.

• Set up standards for test data management, environment parity, and CI/CD quality integration.

• Develop a quality dashboard that monitors automation coverage, outstanding defects, and regression completion rates.

• Collaborate with the Release Manager on mid-cycle readiness assessments and formal go/no-go determinations.

• Coordinate with Technical Support to align production issues with engineering prioritization.

• Conduct post-release retrospectives for client-impacting releases and implement process improvements.

• Work alongside product leadership on maintaining scope freeze discipline and ensuring QE involvement in sprint planning and story refinement.

• Advocate for AI-assisted coding and AI-assisted QA throughout the four value streams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of engineering experience.

• Minimum of 4 years in an engineering leadership role managing engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

• Extensive background in quality engineering, having personally constructed or restructured automation frameworks.

• Experience in migrating automation frameworks across multi-platform web and native mobile settings.

• Proven track record in transitioning from manual-heavy QA to an automation-first quality approach in fintech, banking, or similarly regulated industries.

• Experience in implementing release gates and enforcing go/no-go decisions under time constraints.

• Practical experience with Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro, or similar tools.

• Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin environments is highly advantageous.

• Experience promoting AI coding tool adoption within engineering teams.

• Technical expertise in solution design, architecture, production incident management, root-cause analysis, and complex debugging.

• Capability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on operational execution.

• Cross-functional experience with technical support, release management, and product teams.

• Exceptional communication and organizational influence skills.

• Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking platforms is preferred.

• Familiarity with credit union or community bank client environments is a plus.

• Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or other regulatory compliance frameworks is a bonus.

• Background in managing QA teams through the transition from manual QA to quality engineering roles is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Stock options at a well-funded startup.

• 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for individuals on the USA base plan.

• 100% of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for employees and their families under the Canada comprehensive plan.

• Retirement plan with 4% company matching.

• 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 4 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

• 3-5 weeks PTO based on tenure.

• 5 health days.

• 15 holidays.

• Year-end shutdown.

• Performance-based bonuses.

• Remote-first culture.

• Fast-paced and collaborative work environment.