Vice President of Software Development

Role Overview

• Own delivery and operational excellence across product and shared platform teams
• Partner with Product leadership to define shared goals, priorities, and accountability for quality, speed, and customer impact
• Lead and develop Engineering Directors and Managers through coaching, feedback, career frameworks, and high hiring standards
• Drive measurable, end-to-end software delivery velocity
• Lead HCM/HRIS integrations, including APIs, SFTP/flat files, SCIM provisioning, and SSO (SAML/OIDC), in coordination with partners and vendors
• Apply a disciplined contractor/vendor model, defining externalizable work, quality gates, and knowledge transfer while retaining core IP and architecture in-house
• Advance SDLC automation best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, release controls, and progressive delivery
• Embed AI-assisted development through tooling, governance, standards, and productivity measurement

Requirements

• 10+ years building web-based SaaS products; 5+ years leading multi-team engineering orgs (managers of managers), ideally at enterprise scale.
• Strong culture and collaboration skills; proven trust-building across Engineering and Product with shared ownership of outcomes.
• Experience leading teams of 20+ engineers, and working with off-shore teams.
• Deep experience building for enterprise customers, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC/ABAC, audit logging, compliance, tenant isolation, data governance, and security/procurement workflows.
• Strong background in data-driven applications (analytics/dashboards), including performance at scale, caching/materialization, data modeling, and metrics correctness.
• Solid understanding of modern web architectures: React (or equivalent), backend services (Node/Java/Python), and REST/GraphQL APIs; strong systems thinking even if not hands-on daily.
• Proven cloud-native delivery experience (AWS), CI/CD, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and production observability.
• Track record integrating with HCM/HRIS platforms using SCIM, SSO, webhooks, bulk data exchange, and enterprise security patterns.
• Ability to design and run an effective engineering operating system: planning, delivery metrics, quality standards, architecture governance, and incident response.
• Experience scaling teams using a mix of full-time and contract engineers, with strong quality and knowledge-retention practices.
• Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot-style workflows) with appropriate measurement and guardrails.
• Excellent written communication across architecture docs, operational runbooks, incident communications, and executive updates.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• GraphQL
• Java
• Node.js
• Python
• React
• SDLC
• Terraform

Benefits

• Equal opportunity workplace
• Committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives