VP of Systems Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Oversee Release Management, QA, and DevOps, ensuring high delivery quality, disciplined releases, and platform reliability.

• Maintain indirect coordination with manual QA engineers across various engineering value streams.

• Provide proactive leadership in solution design, architectural decisions, production incident response, and troubleshooting efforts.

• Collaborate with the VP of Engineering on the adoption of AI coding, architectural guidelines, and release coordination.

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

• Design and implement a comprehensive engineering quality framework addressing testing and release readiness.

• Manage multi-platform automation initiatives for Angular, Swift, and Kotlin.

• Establish and enforce quality gates alongside go/no-go release criteria.

• Mentor and develop QA teams towards an automation-first quality engineering approach.

• Set up test data management, ensure environment parity, and integrate CI/CD quality practices.

• Create quality dashboards to provide insights for engineering and leadership teams.

• Implement structured release gate processes and secure formal sign-offs.

• Collaborate with Technical Support to align production issues with engineering priorities.

• Conduct post-release retrospectives and promote systemic process improvements.

• Enforce scope freeze discipline and ensure QA involvement in planning and grooming sessions.

• Spearhead the DevOps strategy encompassing CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, and system reliability.

• Enhance observability and visibility regarding system health, deployment frequency, change failure rates, and MTTR.

• Supervise SRE practices and build towards a dedicated SRE function in the future.

• Ensure that infrastructure and deployment practices comply with security, compliance, and uptime standards.

• Advocate for AI-assisted coding, testing, test generation, test maintenance, and regression coverage.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of engineering experience.

• Minimum of 4 years in engineering leadership roles managing QA, DevOps, or platform reliability teams.

• Strong background in quality engineering with experience in building or rebuilding automation frameworks.

• Proven experience in migrating automation frameworks across web, iOS, and Android platforms.

• Track record of successfully transitioning from manual-heavy QA to automation-first practices in fintech, banking, or regulated environments.

• Experience in implementing release gates and enforcing go/no-go decisions effectively.

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

• Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin environments is a plus.

• Extensive DevOps and platform reliability experience, including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and observability.

• AWS experience is preferred.

• Knowledge of driving the adoption of AI coding and testing tools.

• Technical expertise in solution design, architecture, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

• Cross-functional experience involving technical support, release management, and product development.

• Strong communication skills and organizational influence.

• Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking is advantageous.

• Familiarity with credit union or community bank environments is beneficial.

• Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar compliance requirements is a plus.

• Experience managing the transition from manual QA to quality engineering is a plus.

• Experience building or managing an SRE function is a plus.

• Ability to work standard business hours aligned with Eastern Time.

• Must be able to work remotely from the country where hired.

• Visa sponsorship or transfer requirements must be disclosed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options at a well-funded startup.

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

• Significant contributions towards other USA plan options.

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

• Retirement plan featuring 4% company matching.

• 8 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

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

• 3-5 weeks of PTO based on tenure.

• 5 health days.

• 15 holidays.

• End-of-year shutdown.

• Performance-based bonuses.

• A remote-first culture.

• A fast-paced and collaborative work environment.

• Competitive compensation.