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VP, Engineering presso Applause HQ

Applause HQ · Salt Lake City, Stati Uniti d'America · Remote

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 We're seeking an experienced VP of Engineering to join our leadership team and report directly to our Co-Founder/CTO, Scott Rogers. This is a critical management-focused role where you'll lead our entire development team, recruit and ramp new engineers, and scale processes in order to help take the department to the next level.

Responsibilities:

  • Team Leadership & Development 
    • Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team across all functions (backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, QA)
    • Recruit, onboard, and retain exceptional engineering talent 
    • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement
    • Conduct regular 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and provide coaching to develop future leaders
  • Product Development & Execution
    • Partner closely with Product leadership to translate the product roadmap into engineering deliverables
    • Own sprint planning, resource allocation, and delivery timelines across all engineering initiatives
    • Ensure predictable, reliable product releases with minimal bugs and strong quality assurance
    • Drive alignment between engineering capacity and product priorities
  • Engineering Excellence & Quality 
    • Establish and enforce code quality standards, testing practices, and peer review processes
    • Implement CI/CD pipelines and development workflows that enable rapid, safe deployments
    • Build quality assurance processes, including automated testing, code coverage, and monitoring
    • Create technical documentation standards and knowledge-sharing practices
    • Foster engineering best practices around system design, security, and performance optimization
  • Technical Strategy & Operations
    • Collaborate with Lead Developer on technical vision and long-term technology strategy
    • Make build vs. buy decisions and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools
    • Oversee infrastructure planning, capacity management, and cloud optimization
    • Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance meet SLA commitments
    • Manage engineering budget and resource planning
    • Implement metrics and KPIs to measure team productivity, quality, and velocity

Requirements

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years in software engineering with 4+ years in engineering leadership roles (Director or VP level)
  • Proven track record of scaling engineering teams from 5-10 to 20-50+ engineers
  • Experience managing managers and building organizational structures
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex SaaS products in fast-paced startup environments
  • Strong background in modern web app development and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience implementing engineering processes, standards, and best practices from the ground up
  • Track record of successful collaboration with Product teams to execute roadmaps
  • Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities 
  • Very effective in a remote work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous experience at a Series A or Series B SaaS company during hypergrowth (2-5x growth)
  • Hands-on technical background with the ability to review architecture and code when needed
  • Experience with modern tech stacks (React, Node.js, Python, Go, microservices, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed teams or remote-first engineering cultures
  • History of successful technical hiring and building talent pipelines

Benefits

Benefits:  100% remote w/ no office mandate | Unlimited PTO | 22 official company holidays | Health care | Life insurance | Stock options | Amazing colleagues | Energetic culture that is positive and celebrates together | Inspiring mission & software product | Ability to grow your career by being early in a fast-growing tech startup

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