Fast Facts
The Vice President of Engineering will lead the engineering organization at a K-12 technology company, focusing on building high-performing teams and driving strategic growth.
Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include defining the engineering vision, mentoring engineering leaders, refining operational processes for efficient delivery, and driving innovation in SaaS solutions.
Skills: Required skills include expertise in building cloud-native platforms, strong knowledge of DevOps practices, and exceptional communication abilities to address both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications: Preferred qualifications are a minimum of 10 years in engineering leadership, experience in scaling operations, and familiarity with agile methodologies and modern architectural patterns.
Location: The job is located in Alpharetta, Georgia at Incident IQ North with no remote work options specified.
Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $180,000 - $250,000.
VP, Engineering Overview:
If you are passionate about building world-class engineering teams and delivering exceptional products, we invite you to join us and help shape the future of K-12 technology. As the Vice President of Engineering, you will be a key leader responsible for driving the strategic direction, performance, and scalability of our engineering organization. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will oversee engineering operations, ensure technical excellence, and foster a high-performing engineering culture. You’ll lead the team through periods of growth and transformation, ensuring alignment between engineering and business objectives. You will play a pivotal role in guiding the company’s evolution from $50MM ARR to $200MM ARR by optimizing processes, adopting innovative technologies, and building a scalable team for the future.
VP, Engineering Responsibilities:
Leadership and Strategy
- Define and execute the engineering vision, aligning with the company’s long-term strategic goals.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering leadership team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
- Partner with the CTO and executive leadership to prioritize investments in technology, people, and processes.
- Drive organizational design and team growth to support scaling while maintaining a focus on agility and innovation.
- Operational Excellence
- Establish and refine engineering processes to ensure efficient, predictable, and high-quality delivery.
- Champion DevOps best practices, emphasizing automation, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability engineering.
- Optimize engineering resource allocation to balance long-term innovation and short-term delivery.
- Oversee budgets and vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective technology investments.
- Technology and Innovation
- Provide technical leadership to ensure our SaaS platform remains scalable, secure, and performant.
- Collaborate with the Product team to deliver customer-centric solutions, balancing innovation with technical feasibility.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring the adoption of modern technologies and methodologies.
- Drive architectural decisions to support multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS solutions that handle billions of API requests.
- Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a key liaison between engineering and other departments, ensuring alignment and effective communication.
- Represent engineering in board meetings and other executive-level discussions, communicating progress, challenges, and opportunities.
- Build relationships with customers and partners to understand their needs and incorporate feedback into engineering priorities.
Criteria for Success
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams in scaling SaaS companies from $50MM ARR to $200MM+ ARR.
- Deep expertise in building and scaling multi-tenant, cloud-native platforms with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.
- Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and site reliability engineering (SRE).
- Exceptional ability to balance strategic vision with tactical execution, delivering value to customers and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success in recruiting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- A customer-first mindset, ensuring engineering efforts prioritize delivering exceptional value to users.
Personality
- Visionary and forward-thinking, capable of navigating the challenges of a high-growth SaaS company.
- Collaborative and approachable, with a low-ego leadership style that fosters team success.
- Resilient and calm under pressure, with a focus on problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Data-driven and analytical, using metrics to inform decisions and track progress.
- Passionate about technology and innovation, with a hands-on approach when needed.
- Takes full ownership of tasks, delivering high-quality results with minimal oversight or hand-holding.
- Inquisitive and eager to learn, consistently seeks to understand all aspects of the system, technology, and business to make informed and well-rounded decisions.
VP, Engineering Requirements:
- Platform: Microsoft Azure, C#.NET 8.0
- Architecture: Microservices, Multi-tenant, Event-Driven Architecture
- Design Patterns: Dependency Injection, Repository Pattern, Factory Pattern, Singleton, Event-Driven Architecture, SOLID, CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), and Circuit Breaker for fault tolerance
- Process: Agile methodologies, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
- Leadership: 10+ years in engineering leadership roles, with a proven ability to scale teams and deliver results
- Experience scaling operations, navigating ambiguity, and implementing transformational changes
- Ability set the long-term vision and make critical trade-offs that impact the company’s trajectory
- While technical expertise is essential, this role requires a balance of technical leadership and organizational management
- Experience navigating a wide range of technical, operational, and strategic areas
- Experience with a rapidly growing company, having to embrace and lead through constant change
- Expertise in making tough calls, resolving conflicts, and driving alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders
