VP Software Engineering

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$180K — $220K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in technology leadership, with experience as a senior engineering executive.
  • Proven experience scaling an engineering team from a small base to over 50 people.
  • Capability to manage budgets across engineering, product, and design functions.
  • Hands-on approach with strong technical fluency in architecture and product trade-offs.
  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the engineering team, setting direction and vision.
  • Engage in hands-on architectural and product decision-making.
  • Oversee budgeting for engineering, product, and design divisions.
  • Foster a positive and effective engineering culture from the early stages.
  • Ensure technical solutions meet customer requirements efficiently.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape a team and culture from the ground up.
  • Work in a fast-growing, well-capitalized company in a unique industry.
  • Direct involvement in architecture and product development decisions.
Full Job Description
A fast-growing, well-capitalized vertical SaaS company in the Glendale area is looking for a Vice President of Engineering who wants to be in the weeds, not just in the org chart.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has personally scaled an engineering team from a smaller base past 50 people, while staying close to architecture and product decisions day to day. The product is a UI-heavy application used daily by real customers in a large, traditionally underserved industry, and the team is still early enough that you'd help build the engineering culture from close to the ground floor.

What we're looking for:
  • 12 or more years in technology leadership, including several years in a senior engineering executive role.
  • A track record of growing a team through a real scaling phase, not inheriting one already built.
  • Comfort owning a budget across engineering, product, and design, not just a technical team in isolation.
  • Genuine hands-on habits, you can still speak fluently to architecture and product tradeoffs without deferring to a report.
  • Bonus if you've used AI-assisted engineering workflows heavily in your own daily work.


If this sounds like you, we would love to talk.

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