VP of Engineering- San Francisco HQ

Orb

$180K — $220K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in engineering with leadership experience in infrastructure, platform, or developer-tools companies.
  • Strong background in distributed systems and focusing on correctness and scale.
  • Experience scaling teams and systems during significant growth phases.
  • Deep interest in billing and monetization, particularly usage-based pricing.
  • Proven track record in developing junior leaders and building leadership structures.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with an emphasis on product strategy.
  • Preference for lightweight processes that promote scalability without bureaucracy.

Responsibilities

  • Coach and mentor engineering managers and senior individual contributors.
  • Develop a strategy to attract and retain talent as the team expands.
  • Articulate and execute the technical strategy through advanced discussions.
  • Collaborate with go-to-market teams and product leadership on strategic initiatives.
  • Lay the groundwork for scalable and efficient engineering processes.

Benefits

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • One Medical membership
  • Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off during the holiday season
  • 401k plan
  • 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
  • Commuter stipend
  • Catered lunches in the office
  • Annual learning & development stipend
  • Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
Full Job Description
About the role:

This is a rare moment to lead engineering at Orb. As part of Adyen, we're taking Orb toward a massive revenue line, with Adyen's global sales org behind our distribution. You get the ambition and reach of a platform business, plus the scrappiness, ownership, and speed of an early-stage team.

You'll lead a ~30 person engineering team building infrastructure where correctness and scale aren't nice-to-haves. They're the product. Billing is unforgiving: every number has to be right, in real time, at volume. We're looking for a leader who's energized by the monetization and billing domain. Someone who wants to build the technical and process foundations for the next phase of growth, and who's ready to roll up their sleeves to do it.

In this role you will:
  • Coach and grow our engineering managers and senior ICs via hands-on mentorship, clear growth paths, and real career development for the people building Orb.
  • Build our engineering leadership bench and own talent and retention strategy as the team grows and expands to multiple offices.
  • Set and clearly articulate technical strategy by holding your own in deep technical conversations, and raising the bar on how we design systems for correctness and scale.
  • Partner cross-functionally with GTM and our VP of Product to shape product, competitive, and monetization strategy.
  • Establish the technical and process foundations for Orb's next stage of growth: lightweight, high-leverage, and built to scale without slowing the team down.


About you:
  • 10+ years in engineering with several years leading engineering organizations, ideally at infrastructure, platform, or developer-tools companies.
  • Infra- or platform-heavy technical background, with real depth in distributed systems, data, and designing for correctness and scale.
  • You've scaled teams and systems through meaningful growth and you're excited to re-calibrate into scrappy, early-stage mode rather than run a heavy process.
  • Genuinely leaned into billing and monetization. Usage-based pricing and revenue infrastructure is a domain you find interesting and want to go deep on - this is central to the role.
  • A proven people leader who has coached managers, developed senior ICs, and built durable leadership benches, ideally across multiple offices.
  • A strong cross-functional partner who works naturally with product and go-to-market to turn technical strategy into business results.
  • Bias toward lightweight, high-leverage processes; you'll build foundations that scale without bureaucracy.


Orb's Tech Stack:

At Orb, we believe great engineers can learn any stack, so you do not need experience with these specific tools, and we encourage you to apply regardless.
  • Frontend: Typescript + React + Tailwind CSS
  • Backend: Python
  • Datastores: PostgreSQL + Apache Druid+ Clickhouse
  • Streaming Platforms: Kafka + Spark Streaming
  • Cloud Platform: AWS

Benefits:
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • One Medical membership
  • Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off between Christmas and New Year's
  • 401k plan
  • 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
  • Commuter stipend
  • Catered lunches in the office
  • Annual learning & development stipend
  • Meaningful equity in the form of stock options


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