VP of Engineering

What You'll Own

Team Enablement & Delivery

• Build autonomous teams that own their delivery outcomes. You're accountable for creating the systems and capability that make this possible
• Create clarity around decision rights, accountability, and escalation paths
• Enable teams through coaching, unblocking, and removing organizational friction
• Establish when to engage directly vs. when teams have what they need

Engineering Excellence & Effectiveness

• Establish SLAs, metrics, and engineering standards
• Improve engineering effectiveness: deployment frequency, lead time, quality, velocity
• Create structure that scales from 40 to 60 engineers while maintaining high performance
• Build systematic practices that enable scale without slowing teams down

People & Leadership Development

• Develop engineers, engineering managers and directors into confident, capable leaders
• Coach managers to make strong decisions independently
• Drive performance reviews, promotions, and career development
• Expand capacity for technical mentorship and creative problem-solving development
• Foster a culture of experimentation where teams take calculated risks aligned with product strategy
• Help shape the culture and define what high-performing engineering teams look like here

Delivery & Growth

• Accountable that engineering ships predictably and meets roadmap commitments
• Build recruiting infrastructure that attracts self-directed, senior talent
• Design org structure that supports autonomous teams with clear boundaries and minimal dependencies
• Implement onboarding that builds capability quickly
• Grow the engineering team while maintaining team quality and culture

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

• 10 years in engineering leadership roles

• 5 years leading engineering teams of 30 engineers

• Proven track record scaling engineering organizations

• Experience developing engineering managers and leaders

• Demonstrated success implementing engineering metrics, SLAs, and operational excellence practices

Leadership:

• Track record of hiring and building high-performing teams

• Experience coaching managers to operate autonomously

• History of creating systems and processes that enable team independence

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-growing environments

 Technical:

• Strong technical background with hands-on engineering experience (not required to code daily, but must understand technical trade-offs)

• Experience with modern software development practices (CI/CD, DevOps, Agile)

• Understanding of SaaS architecture and scalability challenges

Nice to Have:

• Experience in B2B SaaS or logistics/supply chain technology

• Background scaling remote or distributed engineering teams

• Previous experience at companies going through similar growth stages (50-200 people)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)

You're a Great Fit If:

• You've scaled an engineering org by building strong, autonomous teams

• You take full ownership. Delivery, hiring, team health are YOUR outcomes

• You proactively identify and solve systemic problems

• You measure success by team outcomes, not your direct involvement

• You love operational excellence. Metrics, SLAs, effectiveness improvements energize you

• Learn more about Breakthrough's tech team and our culture here.

You're NOT a Fit If:

• You need to be involved in most decisions to feel effective

• You prefer directing work rather than developing capability

• Metrics and operational excellence feel like secondary concerns=

Team structure:

• 5 product teams with strong execution autonomy

• Engineering managers/directors paired with staff/tech leads

Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Python, React, PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Redis, GCP, Docker, Elastic search