VP Engineering - Remote

Overview

This is an opportunity to join an ambitious, bootstrapped, and product-led company committed to building a world-class mobile-first experience for our members. As Going’s Vice President of Engineering, you will play a significant role in rapidly developing new product experiences that unlock growth and help more people travel and experience the world in the coming years.

In Short

• Become deeply familiar with our code base, tooling, team, existing product, product vision, processes, and technical obstacles.
• Ensure scalability of our software and data while being efficient and thoughtful with costs.
• Motivate and work alongside the Engineering team to deliver scalable architecture and timely, efficient product deployments.
• Direct a top-notch engineering team by fostering a culture of growth, development, and bias for action.
• Strategically partner with the Leadership Team to refine and further develop our technical vision and initiatives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure prioritization transparency and enhance project implementation and efficiency.
• Establish and refine software development processes that continuously deliver value to our customers.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to strategically reduce technical debt.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing highly scalable systems for major consumer-centric software organizations.
• Experience in startup environments and leading an engineering org of 25-50 engineers.
• Expertise in leveraging massive data sets and data science models.
• Track record of developing high-quality mobile applications on iOS and Android.
• Experience in developing and executing a strategic and technical roadmap.
• Ability to balance tradeoffs between speed and quality.
• Proven record of building and leading efficient high-performance engineering teams.
• Knowledge and experience implementing data security and privacy standards.
• Experience with products that cater to millions of users.
• Ability to inspire, lead, and manage teams in a remote-first work environment.
• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical coworkers.

Benefits

• The salary for this role is $250,000 + equity.
• 100% remote work environment.
• Annual team retreats.
• Open vacation policy.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k) with a 5% match.
• $750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.
• Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with.